Wii Music
Wii Music
Reviled, mocked, company-destroying: Nintendo’s notorious flop deserves a reevaluation.
Issue 10
moral panic
Do Games Desensitize Us?
Here is the fear: the game seduces.
Robert Yang
Walking the Line
Where videogames and sex meet
rami ismail
The Distance
The world is getting smaller, and Rami Ismail wants it to be covered in videogames
Paloma Dawkins
The Organic World
Finding nature in unlikely places
Pixel Art
A Field Guide to Modern Pixel Art
Nostalgia, revision, meta and noise: the four moves by which a new generation of pixel artists is pushing the form past 8-bit pastiche.
Manifold Garden
Theory of Relativity
Twisting traditional notions of videogame architecture
yume nikki
The Disappearing Girl
On the trail of the mysterious, pioneering altgame Yume Nikki.
Lisa Frank
The Unicorn Variations
The enduring power of Lisa Frank, Trapper Keeper visionary.
Terra Nova: Strike Force Centauri
Back in the Cockpit
Honest labor in Terra Nova: Strike Force Centauri.
streets of rage
The Halls of Power
The side-scrolling beat-em-up put a fallen city on the screen and a devil at the top of it. What gave the end boss away was never his crimes. It was his taste.
Game Genie
Glitch Genie
How the quintessential ’90s game-breaker paved the way for glitch art.