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Creepy digital ghosts will keep you company in Fullbright’s Tacoma
Gone Home gets zero-gravity.
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My God, Cuphead still looks beautiful
A new trailer showcases the animated stunner in action.
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Paint the screen with glitches in this virtualization of our chaotic online lives
A virtual storm of emoticons and floppy disks.
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In the Game of Thrones season finale, you either win, or you respawn
Spoiler warning for everyone who is not caught up on season five /// A few episodes ago, in yet another classic Stannis-Davos argument, the false king declared his strategic position—while also basically summing up the entirety of the Game of Thrones fiction: “We march to victory, or we march to def
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The astonishing riddle that started inside Trials Evolution ended up spanning the globe
The racing game Trials Evolution was released for Xbox 360 in the spring of 2012. It was well reviewed. It sold reasonably well. It was notable in the sense that all games are notable to someone. Then something strange happened. Actually, a lot of strange things happened. Wooden planks inscribed wit
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The human cost of Baku 2015, conceptualized as the most futile videogame ever
A game of human rights violations.
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As beautiful as ABZÛ is it does not forget the deep terrors of the ocean
If you have a child, do not take them on vacation to the cold Cornwall coasts. It is a place of terror. Dark rugged waves that foam at the mouth aggressively pound steep rocks to a deafening chorus. On the wet sand lies the receding tide’s victims: purple blobs of dead jellyfish, scattered like alie
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An exhibit celebrates the brutalist playgrounds of the past, as should we all
Brutalism gets a bad name. Ok, let’s be honest, it has a bad name. If tomorrow morning you were tasked with encouraging parents to send their kids to a specific playground, you probably wouldn’t call it brutalist. Or would you? For a brief, wonderful moment in the middle of the 20th century, archite
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These robots aren’t here to kill you, and even if they were, they would just fall down
We are nowhere near Terminator’s Judgement Day yet.
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Astaeria turns classic poetry into videogame worlds for us to wander
The best poetry alludes to a kind of magic. After all, as one classic tweet had us recall, the act of reading is to “stare at marked slices of tree for hours on end, hallucinating vividly.” It seems a bizarre activity when worded as such, but it’s the truth, as the power of finely tuned stanzas is e
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Prepare to question unreality with SOMA’s machine-horror on September 22nd
“Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn’t go away.” – Philip K. Dick Humanity’s centuries-old attempt to understand our own consciousness, from philosophy to biology, can basically be summed up by one single image: a dog trying to chase its own tail. From Descartes’s declaration
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Puzzling art-novel Tree of Codes is this year’s most unpredictable ballet adaptation
Is it a novel? Is it a sculpture? No, it’s a ballet performance now.