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Prepare for the mind melting audio-visual journey of Panoramical
Probably the most gif-able game this year.
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Play free games at the Ace Hotel
Kill Screen is bringing games to the starving masses once again; make sure you come out to the Ace Hotel tomorrow night for the August edition of Playlist, our free public arcade. Local independent music label GODMODE will be DJing once again, and the bar will be stocked. This month, you can practic
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One More Night will have you reliving your teenaged summer regrets
The annual “song of the summer” competition is bullshit. Like summer movie season, which has taken over much of the calendar year over the course of Marvel’s latest phase, the song of the summer is a temporally inaccurate designation. But even if the song of the summer only made its presence felt du
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The records of Super Hexagon’s soundtrack may make you rethink the whole game
Spin it round and round, but avoid the sharp edges.
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Neuro Fantasy is a lurid soundtrack experience with none of the bullsh*t
Direct your own piece of emergent cinema.
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The quiet importance of the Minecraft soundtrack
C418’s soundtrack for Minecraft makes good on ambient music’s promises.
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If you get anxious about karaoke just wait until you play Stage Presence
Stage Presence is karaoke with less musicality and more social anxiety, and really, what’s not to like about that? You play as the frontman of a band. You’re on stage at a large festival—think Glastonbury, but without the ambient fug—when something goes wrong. Who knows what went wrong. This is the
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Hear the haunting industrial wail of Tangiers in its new trailer
Dark ambient meets Throbbing Gristle.
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Sanctuary is what its name promises, only with more synths and beauty
“Why are you treading on the grass, you dummy?” I had that thought at least a dozen times while playing Sanctuary, Connor Sherlock’s synth-y, first-person walking simulator. There are dirt paths to walk on but much of the ground is covered by grass. Sometimes the shortest path to wherever you’re go
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The Last of Us soundtrack is getting the beautiful vinyl LP it always needed
“Whoa. Look at this place!” Ellie says as you walk through the doorway, into an old record store. You’re on your way to Bill’s hideout and this abandoned town is the first place that lets you truly grasp Ellie’s alienation from our own world. It’s not that she just doesn’t listen to records. She’s n
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This procedurally generated game captures the lurid rituals of a concert
Everyone shuffles in, somehow looking both non-committal and excited. The space is tight-knight, vaguely dingy, and hot from all the breaths and bodies. People are talking, but not real talk—at most, small talk, to diffuse the tension of waiting. Then, the lights go black and everything stops for on
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Paths We Take turns falling in love into a rapturous collision of bodies
With his latest EP, Paths We Take, internet weird-house and software artist Brian returns us to his distinctive realm of ordinary life turned bizarre. It’s an EP of four songs, each one describing a chapter in a story that follows two people and their life together as it unfolds. “They meet, fall in