Videogame based on Borges short story is in fact Borgesian
Solve the riddles of Borges’s A Garden of Forking Paths in this enigmatic videogame.
Chess
Chinese artist places regional chess variants in a 3D-printed context
Nova Jiang explores the many ways that versions of chess are loved in her home country and elsewhere.
Behold, a levitating chessboard
It may be a bit impractical, but it’s hard to deny the coolness factor of playing chess on a board that’s levitating in midair. This is not an optical illusion, but some very impressive tech from the levitation design firm Crealev. Seriously, their motto is: We Make Things Float. They’re tight-lippe
The secret history of the American boardgame
Or: why you hate Monopoly.