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Ico’s secret language and the scenes you never got to see
Yorda isn’t as much of a pushover as we may have thought.
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Specimen wants to give you the color perception skills of a veteran painter
Sign up to receive each week’s Playlist e-mail here! Also check out our full, interactive Playlist section. Specimen (iOS) BY PepRally If your passion involves mixing paint to attain specific tones, then Specimen should come easy to you. The game involves picking out the floating blob of color (in
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Cultivate a meditative bonsai garden in your pocket with Prune
We have a lot to thank trees for. Aside from—you know—letting us breathe and all, science also tells us that cultivating plant life can actually boost your serotonin (like an antidepressant) and your immune system. Permaculturists call it the “harvest high,” known to both quell anxiety and build a s
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Evo 2015’s comebacks, or the growing significance of the crowd in eSports
The latest Evolution Championship Series (Evo) had plenty of action and drama to fill the weekend. Intense fights were had, hugs were given, tears were shed, and some shirts even came off. One of the highlights of the event, though, was a particularly daring comeback during a Killer Instinct match b
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Capturing the eccentricity of The Grand Budapest Hotel in a videogame adaptation
The tangible world of The Grand Budapest Hotel becomes interactive.
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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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Arm wrestle burly fish in this adaptation of Hemingway’s philosophy of manhood
If you’ve never read Ernest Hemingway’s 1952 novel The Old Man and the Sea there is now an abridged version in which you arm wrestle a marlin. It’s a videogame with the superb title of The Old Man Club, which not only refers back to the novel’s title, but may also allude to a critique of those who h
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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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The Iñupiat’s voice in videogames continues with Never Alone’s upcoming DLC
Foxtales takes Nuna and Fox on a nautical journey up the Noatak River.
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FIFA 16 is slowly discovering the existence of women’s soccer
Alex Morgan will be the first woman to appear on a FIFA cover.
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Videogame based on Moby Dick lets you wreak havoc as the white whale
Header image: Poster for 1976 theatrical re-release of Moby Dick. /// After Captain Ahab’s whaling ship, the Pequod, has been destroyed by the white whale he’s been hunting across the globe in the final scenes of Herman Melville’s classic novel Moby Dick, he says the following: “Towards thee I roll
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Profiles of the Forgotten is "a videogame within a movie"
“Have you ever loved someone so much, that you could step out of time?” These are the words that introduce Profiles of the Forgotten, a project that lies somewhere between a traditional game and a film. The first project by Los Angeles developer Pablo Leon-Luna, Profiles of the Forgotten is describe