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The satisfying mundanity of Cradle’s science fiction
Today’s wonders are tomorrow’s chores.
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Apps are the best hope for Moscow’s architectural heritage
You never know what you’ve got until it’s gone. So it is in Moscow, where on the occasion of the Garage Museum of Contemporary Art’s unveiling, the architect Rem Koolhaas told The Guardian “you can say so many things about the Soviet system that were bad, but in terms of public architecture it was g
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Forget Jurassic World, here’s a game with a badass red-headed dino hunter
As we’ve seen in Jurassic Park, and now Jurassic World, the unstoppable force of a hungry dino can only be thwarted by one thing: cool, overly confident badassary. Whether its Sam Neill battling a car and a raptor at the same time, or Chris Pratt’s motorcycle sequence, the more outlandish your survi
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Kill Screen is bringing our favorite stuff to Ace Hotel next week
Beat the heat at the Ace Hotel with drinks, music and games.
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Tangiers turns the police into something straight out of a surrealist’s nightmares
One of the first things I noticed about Tangiers was how quiet it is. In a medium populated by graphically noisy deaths, swelling soundtracks and the constant ding of coin collection, Tangiers‘ use of diegetic and industrial tones stood out. But while Tangiers promises to be a whisper compared to it
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Everybody’s Gone to the Rapture aims for "genuinely nonlinear narrative"
Everybody’s Gone to the Rapture designer Dan Pinchbeck has written a long blog post detailing the game’s creative genesis. Peppered throughout are some hints on what the final game—which, after being shrouded in secrecy, is due to be released in early August—might contain. He’s spoken before (to Ki
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Videogames understand symbols, except when it comes to the Confederate flag
The Confederate flag: offensive symbol or just a distraction from the real debate?
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How do you bring the magic of Spelunky to 3D architecture?
Mark Johns is chasing a ghost. This is what he tells me. It’s not quite the truth. The spectral quality of this “ghost” isn’t immateriality; interfacing with it isn’t a problem, Johns has done that thousands of times. The hard bit, and the bit he’s after, is understanding it. The ghost is actually S
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Artware finds a new home
Sign up to receive each week’s Playlist e-mail here! Also check out our full, interactive Playlist section. TRIP (PC, Mac) BY AXEL SHOKK Originally released in 2012 without any fanfare, first-person “artware” game TRIP got a second chance recently with its arrival on Steam—a chance that its creator
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Long live Doom
Worship at the altar of shooting hellspawn.
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Get your summer reading on lock with the new videogame Storybundle
This is a very good deal.
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This story about gay marriage in a videogame shouldn’t be big news, but it is
This is going to be a short article because there aren’t two sides to tell. In Nintendo’s upcoming Fire Emblem Fates, it will be possible for your avatar to bond with an NPC of the same gender during a war and eventually get married. Polygon reports that relationships between men will require the pu