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Street Art and the 8-Bit Cool
The 8-bit aesthetic is not a fast-track to relevance.
10 Things Only Millennials Will Understand About Pokemon
We are being baited, somehow.
Games could learn a thing or two from confessional poetry’s history
How confessional gaming is slowly growing a presence.
The unexpected charms of Pokémon Art Academy
You grow up, but you never leave.
Halo: The Master Chief Collection is a model for preserving videogame history
We’re surprised, too.
Call of Duty doesn’t understand grief, but then, who does?
Press F to lose dignity.
Passing the time in This War of Mine
A harrowing game of war charts out a life of mundanity.
This videogame shows the beauty of disregarding photorealism
The only thing better than realism is surrealism.
The timely optimism of In Real Life
How Cory Doctorow’s graphic novel ended up being more relevant than it intended.
On Nintendo’s new sleep monitor
Or: Does Mario dream of electric cheep-cheeps?
What happens when computers can tell how we’re feeling?
Games will soon use new 3D camera technology to pull our emotions into play.
Forza 2 and the lust for cars
On the desirability of a machine.
Tales from the Borderlands shoots second, asks questions first
Pandora with fewer explosions is still pretty much Pandora.
Silent Hill 2’s endings aren’t what you want, but what you deserve
Or: Why I’ve never seen “In Water.”
Republique shows that tablets can tell emotional, realistic stories
All it takes is a good actor to bring a story alive.
What’s better than HD? Try a 12K monitor
4K may be the immediate future, but let’s imagine what 12K might be.
Vib-Ribbon is a love letter to obsolete technology
The progenitor of the music game, crystallized.
The Long Dark will turn any apartment into frozen, lifeless hellscape
Freeze to death without even leaving the house.
Hatsune Miku is here to destroy everything you love (and hate) about pop stardom
Pop’s uncanny valley makes her way to the States.
Sexting with robots with Kara Stone
The Medication Meditation creator makes the personal interactive.
Alex Harvey’s genre-bending, game-destroying take on Burroughs
Sharing headspace with a maniac.
Lauren McCarthy takes on Silicon Valley optimism
What a kingdom of apps and tech obsession hath wrought.
Studio Oleomingus wants to take us to an impossible Somewhere
A collection of shorts, fragments of a mirror.