Balatro and the expected value of wonder
Balatro transforms poker into a mathematical puzzle that reveals how optimization culture has replaced genuine play, turning casino aesthetics into pure sensation.
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An enormous and beautiful Indian transmedia project comes to videogames
In 2013, the Sri Lankan newspaper The Sunday Times interviewed Avinash Kumar, an experimental VJ (video jockey) from India, about a project he was heading: a short story that became a graphic novel that became an album with his audio-visual collective BLOT!, which then became something else altogeth
Engare, a videogame about the mathematical beauty of Islamic art
Iranian game maker Mahdi Bahrami is the kind of person who answers a question with more questions. I don’t think he can stop himself. “What will happen if I add a short line to one of the tiles in a mosque?” he asks me. “If we take into account the tiling rules of the mosque, what would the whole wa
Best Chess uses all its computational power just to mess with your mind
The computer is thinking…
Miegakure lets you touch the actual 4th dimension, creator says
As far as dimensions go, the 4th dimension is pretty impossible to understand. That’s because you can’t perceive or really even conceive it. But according to Miegakure creator Marc Ten Bosch, his metaphysical puzzler inspired by Japanese gardening allows the 4th dimension to be made real. Over at T
Calculords makes me feel like a math genius, and that’s magical
I am not a “math man.”
How The Walking Dead uses big data to make life-or-death decisions
Telltale Games mines decision-making numbers to change the player experience and the narrative itself.
The oldest wonderful podcast returns and YouTube reports on the state of gamers
On Canada Day, Xbox losts its leader. Coincidence?