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Nina Freeman’s latest game confronts the inescapability of sexual assault
Freshman Year is hard to watch, but you should anyway.
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Navigate the surreal, wondrous landscape of reincarnation in Vapor
In Vapor, one playthrough lasts a lifetime.
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Take a seat for Last Voyage’s beautiful synthesizer space opera
There is no mystery. That is not a problem.
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Dual merges digital and physical space to bring people closer
I wish I could have shown Sebastian Gosztyla’s mobile game Dual to my mother 20 years ago. Not to play it with her, she wouldn’t have allowed that, but to see how she configured it in the rules she had for me back then, when I was a child. She saw videogames as separating me from other people, as un
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This week’s Playlist pick: Sisyphos
The ancient Greek punishment of playing videogames.
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Improve your seder with a mad, biblical Rube Goldberg contraption
And the students said, “let my contraption go!”
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One of the greatest metaphysical painters gets a surreal videogame tribute
Behind the sunlit arches of amber stone and their elongated shadows, behind the marble busts poised lonesome in the air, behind the ivy-crept porticos sitting empty with umbra, there lies a self-portrait of the Italian artist Giorgio de Chirico. His aged quilt-like face is the last sight for you to
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Women redesign female characters to show what videogames are missing out on
“Suppose, for instance, that men were only represented in literature as the lovers of women, and were never the friends of men, soldiers, thinkers, dreamers; how few parts in the plays of Shakespeare could be allotted to them; how literature would suffer! We might perhaps have most of Othello; and a
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HelixDX turns your many videogame deaths into a rhythmic dance
What if game worlds were governed by the experience of music rather than the fear of death?
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Fragile Soft Machines wants to know how you deal with hardship
It’s unusual to see butterflies used as a metaphor for tragedy. Within the framework of the English language at least, they’ve enjoyed being symbols for beauty, freedom, and transformation—the English poet John Clare’s “lovely insect.” Perhaps the closest to an inversion we have to that established
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Blind people experience classic paintings for the first time due to 3D printing
Have you experienced the benefits of texture and braille?
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Videogames and electronic music: still the best thing
Michna and Heathered Pearls will be spinning at Two5six’s public arcade.