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YACHT is pressing its alien TV hits to double vinyl
Greatest Hits from Planet Blip collects music from Blippo+, the off-cable television simulator Panic published last year. The label dates it 16 October.
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Screaming Mad George left behind exactly one video game
Paranoiascape sent a burning brain through nine levels of hell
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Stephen Ddungu animates and scores a one-man prequel
The Sword of Symphony developer’s episodic project 00000 00 0x0000000 unfolds in [The Garden], a border between Ddungu’s games.
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When the crank turns, Ancient Loops collides its cards
Nicolas Tilly's Playdate sound toy drops levels and fail states for resonances, ritual, and a 30-second performance recorder.
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Murlo's Luddite rhythm games wrapped a run at Aviva Studios
Five minigames from the unreleased Something Beautiful played on Factory International's Media Wall, on a controller covered in the artist's 3D-printed sculptures.
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A sculptural camera turns a game engine into cinema
Kevin Peter He and Dan Gorelick staged PASSAGE at an off-SIGGRAPH night in LA—visuals and score as two instruments answering each other live.
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Acclaimed electronic musician Moiré releases glitchy hellscape alongside album
The most experimental and daring (read: LIT) indie music artists have been flirting with videogames for a while now. Grimes headlined Moogfest with a Microsoft Kinect-powered interactive installation last year; the bassist from the noise-rock band Lighting Bolt, Brian Gibson, recently created the VR
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VIRGO’s dreamy Water Planet drips to Steam this summer
When we last saw Water Planet in the summer of 2016, the virtual reality game accompaniment to electronic musician VIRGO’s EP of the same name, it had just been ushered through Steam Greenlight. But that was sometime ago, and after hearing nothing but crickets for nearly six months, its release wind
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Chrome-tinged cats come to life in this colorful VR music video
Most virtual reality music videos feel the same. They’re all impressive on a technical level, rotating 360-degrees so viewers can take in all their surroundings. Yet little of them inject the most integral feature: interactivity. That is, except for Tyler Hurd, an animator known for injecting life i
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The Irish mythology and music behind watercolor game Scéal
Sandro Magliocco spent his childhood playing around and exploring the medieval coastal town of Carlingford, Ireland. So when his Slovakia-based, multinational team at Joint Custody decided to set its debut title in Ireland, it made sense for him to revisit those early memories and set the game in a
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Making videogames inspired by New York’s musical improv scene
Greg Heffernan (aka Cosmo D) is making videogames unlike anyone else right now. He attributes it to two things: his early efforts to visualize music, and his background among the New York music scene. The first game he made, Saturn V (2014), turned the track of the same name by Heffernan’s band Arch
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Japanese artist creates music with obsolete technology
A lot of newer music has been deemed inane and ridiculous for sounding like broken technology. Dubstep’s sound, for example, has been compared to the sound of hitting a metal pole with a chainsaw, the sound of robots dying, the sound of a root canal. According to Wendy’s: “Dubstep sounds like a brok