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The School: an essay concerning Tony Hawk’s Pro Skater
“We got this new game,” he said in biology class, “where you just get to wander around and skate.”
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The spirit of P.T. will live on after all
P.T. was a mirage. Thirsty for horror, we supped from its frightening wellspring, it sending shudders through our bodies and electric in our hairs. We were revitalized. Then it was taken from us. Konami shut it all down, both P.T. and the game it acted as a teaser for, the now vaporware survival hor
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Kitty Horrorshow’s most personal game yet is a trip through sad architecture
The architecture in Kitty Horrorshow’s videogames has always had the biggest presence. In CHYRZA it was a midnight pyramid that bore down upon you while collating pieces of its monstrous history. Sunset Spirit Sky had jagged helter-skelters to climb and silhouetted windmills with blades like black k
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Architect is so obsessed with LEGO he dedicated a part of his house to it
An architect’s Lego room maps out his obsession
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The secret history of the Legacy of Kain
A return to the twisted world of Soul Reaver.
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Larger-than-life opera house photographs overwhelm the senses
If you’ve ever wanted to see the grandeur of an opera house in awe-inspiring, larger-than-life color and detail, New York City-based photographer David Leventi’s photographs will have you reeling. Leventi captured the inside of famous, virtually empty opera houses, from the Metropolitan Opera in New
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Everything you ever feared about conversation now exists in game form
In Menagerie, the conversation never ends. Menagerie physically traps you in conversation. Welcome to Menagerie, the networking event from hell.
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At 1 World Trade Center, history and elevators make for an awkward pairing
There are things you want to see while locked in an elevator. And then there’s the sight of the neighboring skyscraper suddenly disappearing from the skyline. The elevators leading to 1 World Trade Center’s observatory offer both. This is not a malicious prank. As they ascend to the 102nd floor, the
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Sunset arrives May 21, but you can play it before then at Two5Six
Come to our free arcade in Brooklyn to play Tale of Tales’ latest before its release.
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Memories of a Broken Dimension is here to destroy everything
XRA’s brutal, brutalist glitch experiment is more unsettling by the day.
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Fashion your own sublime diorama of impossible architecture in Brick Blocks
Gravity is the biggest downer in architecture and urban planning, so why not just do away with it? This, admittedly, is not advice that professionals should heed. But what if you just want to have a little bit of fun designing a structure that has no practical use? For moments like that, there’s Osk
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Hidetaka Miyazaki’s transcendent quest for beauty in Bloodborne
The obsessions of an artist.