Sunset
Marginalia
An exploration of four spaces.
Issue 10
books
On the Perfection of Books
Could the ideal user interface be the one you’re holding in your hands?
Shadowrun: Hong Kong
Cities of Text
Harebrained Schemes's Shadowrun games are mostly language: the smell of a room, pulp death poetics, fat gobs of dialogue. The words are the city you walk through.
Gaspar Noe
In the Realm of the Senses
Gaspar Noe's films want your senses open wide, and they get there by borrowing the architecture of games. The drug trip in Enter the Void is Child of Eden without a controller.
Tom van den Boogaart
Tom van den Boogaart
The Dutch developer behind Bernband builds games the way he once built Lego: one funny, physics-bent piece snapped onto the next.
Everest Pipkin
Everest Pipkin
Generative poetry, hacked Roombas and endless glass greenhouses: the artist builds machines whose output they cannot predict.
Croatia
Emergent Game Scenes
Four global game development communities Rami Ismail thinks you should watch.
Videogame Dogs
A Definitive Ranking of Videogame Dogs
They are all good boys, but which boy is the best boy?
Pokémon Snap
Random Access Memory
No one could find a party with alcohol, so a freshman-year night became a dorm-room run through Pokémon Snap that stalled on a single missing picture.