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Cheongsam to merge “virtual theatre” and videogames

Cheongsam to merge “virtual theatre” and videogames

3 min read News
Dubbed “virtual theatre” by its creators, Cheongsam is a game about chance encounters and the types of conversations that stretch until 3AM. It’s also about the role players have in creating a game’s story. Cast as a young man named Michael, you spend an evening getting to know an AI-controlled acqu
A videogame adaptation of Hamlet has been turned back into a stage show

A videogame adaptation of Hamlet has been turned back into a stage show

2 min read News
To be, or not to be—that is a rhetorical question, and it gets at the challenges facing anyone who wishes to convert Shakespeare’s Hamlet into a videogame. Games are about the ways user choices can shape a narrative and Hamlet—well, let’s just say he prefers to keep his own counsel.  Every level mus