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What is the Environmental Weight of a Rendered Frame?
Kara Stone and Joshua Dawson are making work about a world in crisis. They're also reckoning with what it means to build inside the systems driving it.
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New visual novel should satisfy your lo-fi cyberpunk dreams
New York City has a clichéd nickname: The City that Never Sleeps, referring to the restlessness of nightlife in the city. Similar is the metropolis in the newly released Cyber City 2157: The Visual Novel, as it also never sleeps. But that’s because the sun never sets. Night never comes to toss its d
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ANATOMY is a masterpiece of cassette tape horror
The scariest part of The Exorcist (1973) for me wasn’t all the bedroom acrobatics and green puke, it was a much subtler scene. In it, Father Karras sits before large spinning reels as they playback the recorded voice of possessed 12-year-old Reagan MacNeil, all of it incomprehensible gurgled groans
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One of the best horror movies of the millennium is a YouTube compilation of Silent Hill 2’s cutscenes
In my restless dreams, I see that YouTube compilation…
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Knossu finds the horror in non-euclidean architecture
Knossu‘s wall textures sizzle as if they’ve been half-cooked on a frying pan. It’s like someone went nuts with the spray paint tool in Microsoft Paint and the most garish colors they could find. Have you ever bitten into something that was way too sour? Imagine that vigorous and unbearable taste car
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Do not stop and do not think while playing Strawberry Cubes
Sign up to receive each week’s Playlist e-mail here! Also check out our full, interactive Playlist section. STRAWBERRY CUBES (PC) BY LOREN SCHMIDT Strawberry Cubes is a platformer that gives you a toolset instead of a jump button. You already know too much. For this is a game that works by keeping
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Be intimidated by this lo-fi computer-programming game, or discover its secrets
Several lines of command-line text fade into the left side of your monitor. The sounds of primitive processor clicking and ancient operating system chimes remind you of the birth of the PC. The opposite of the clean and intuitive UI designs that we’ve all grown accustomed to jumps out at you, in an
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It’s about time there was a lo-fi Blade Runner videogame
Our present reimagined from the future visions of the 1980s.
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Sub Rosa wants you to be the worst person you could possibly be
Cryptic Sea’s upcoming shooter is described by the developers as “about tense deals, double-crosses and car chases.” Car chases and gunplay have been done to death, but what’s this about double-crossing? Less of a shooter and more of a corporate warfare simulator, the game encourages you to be an al
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Lucas Pope finds his procedural zen
The follow-up to Papers, Please is looking lovely and decidedly lo-fi.
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Curtain imagines a grim alternative ending to Gone Home
“The trash of adolescence is all around and your relationship is just as grim.” Curtain’s garish visuals reflect the abusive relationship at its heart