Everybody shut up: Jurassic World is great
Jurassic World finds transcendence in absurdity.
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We round up the E3 stragglers and put them out of their misery
Please sign our petition to cancel Metroid Prime Federation Force. This has gone on for too long.
Day two of E3 has come and gone, and Nathan Drake still hasn’t moved
Hey look, a chihuahua-griffin!
Here is everything that happened on the first day of E3, and we are so tired
Takes, fresh from the oven.
#E3
Excited for #E3? We can barely sleep, we can barely see.
Remembering Jurassic Park: Trespasser, the trainwreck that made shooting dinosaurs feel like a chore
Killing dinos with wacky waving inflatable aiming arms.
The connection between IRL parkour and videogames
The real-life drama behind the Toronto parkour scene.
What Cities: Skylines does-and doesn’t-say about our dying world
Colossal Order’s game and the neoliberal ideal.
Body Trouble
The science fiction film Ex Machina falls into the uncanny valley.
How a Civilization V mod makes corruption the least of FIFA’s Problems
This Civilization V mod makes sense of the FIFA mess.
Intel’s Two5six Scholars program helps bring women and people of color to videogames
Making a difference through education.
Second Quest’s rejection of binary ritual
Imagining Zelda beyond light and dark, male and female, good and evil.
Heroes of the Storm is a MOBA for people who hate eSports
The least user-friendly genre in games gets refined, but at what cost?
The convergence of role-playing and dress-up games
Those capes have always meant something.
The dark ways stealth games work on your mind
Thief, stealth, and the psychology of the forbidden.
No Man’s Sky and the technology that created 18 quintillion planets
Procedural generation strikes a balance between randomness and order.
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.”
Think Mad Max is just about cars? Think again
The tactility of mad max’s human element.
In Defense of Tomorrowland
Brad Bird’s ride-turned-spectacle points to a new way of talking about Disney.
Red Head Redemption
Why do we fear women with red hair?
For Becky Stern, wearable electronics are a form of self-expression
The Adafruit designer empowers everyone to bring their fashion to life.
Exploring Mexico’s heritage through gaming
Sharing a culture, one quest at a time
The computers of the future will not be a pain in the ass
No matter what Hollywood would have you believe.
Presenting Time Warrior, a new classic of so-bad-it’s-good cinema
Imagine Birdemic crossed with a stock photo of a gamer.
Let’s go home, Ellie
Miguel Penabella on The Last of Us and The Searchers.