Gravity Goblins
Walls become floors on command in Gravity Goblins
The Rat Zone's fourth bite-size game is hoards trinkets, blows it all at the arcade.
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Podcast
One Pigeon Instead of Every Clock [Podcast]
An arcade cabinet that writes a stranger’s life, Christian Marclay’s 24-hour clock, and a pigeon romance rebuilt after its map switched off.
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Podcast
The Cicada Does Not Know Summer [Podcast]
An arcade cabinet in Tokyo writes a stranger's life from census data, and the artist who built it explains why you are allowed to go back exactly once.
Hypnogenesis
A video synthesizer is the control scheme in Hypnogenesis
Allen Riley and Andy Wallace wired a bullet hell into the guts of an image feedback loop, then demoed it on a CRT for the games-research crowd.
Rising
Tomo Kihara Will Not Sit Comfortably in One Chair
A cabinet in Tokyo runs a language model that writes a stranger's life from census data, and its maker is still deciding what to call the work he does.
Xiner Lan
Invented Olympic sports demand both hands in Qilinic Games
Xiner Lan's UCLA MFA thesis installation stages pseudo-sports on a twin-joystick arcade cabinet, a ritual for building 'the great body.'
arcade
Wonderville's new cabinet Step Right Up! crosses a Zoltar machine with vector graphics
Game, cabinet, UI, voice, animatronic head and a custom trackball each get a credit
Feature
I miss the summers in Japan: How videogames overcome language barriers
I sat cross legged in front of the TV and watched as Alex carefully removed the Super Nintendo from its dusty, neglected box. Our grandfather hardly used it, preferring to play Shogi on his computer instead of the console. Also stored away were a pile of games with labels we couldn’t read. The Japan
Review
Pac-Man Championship Edition 2 is a remix too far
Things have been looking up for Pac-Man lately. Pac-Man 256 made a huge splash on phones last year, and the gluttonous pie chart recently showed up in several collaborations with Google, including map mods and playable Doodles. There was that dreadful Adam Sandler movie too, which, quality aside, di
News
Parachute Pete, a game about destroying planes in the bloodiest way possible
The game jam A Game By Its Cover 2016 is over, leaving behind many interesting and wonderful games. Inspired by fake Famicom game cover art, some of the games got weird, and that’s certainly the case for Parachute Pete. The game is immature in the best way, bringing together the terrifying majesty o
News
Schlong is just like Pong, but with 100% more dicks
Needless to say, this article is NSFW. /// This is a difficult question to ask, so I’m just going to go ahead and get right to the meat of it. Have you ever been playing Pong (1972) and wished that, instead of the rigid paddles, you could get something a little more floppy in your hands? Schlong cou
Feature
Rethinking the shooter for the VR age
This is a preview of an article you can read on our new website dedicated to virtual reality, Versions. /// Header illustration by Gareth Damian Martin Although videogames have been around since the early fifties, the first known electronic shooter actually appeared in 1936. The Seeburg Ray-o-Lite,