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A hot date with a pug reminded me why I hate dating
I went on a hot date with a pug. He stared into my soul, and found it lacking.
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Perception vows to enhance your vision using echolocation
The terror of Perception, a first-person horror game currently raising funds on Kickstarter, is that entire world around you appears to be hewn from stone. What chance do you stand in a universe where everything is so unnervingly solid? The manor in which Perception is set is not actually hewn from
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The aesthetic of games meets the language of comics in Sam the Alien
What can games bring to the medium of comics? Sam the Alien attempts to find the answer.
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Glasswork mammoths bring a little bit of Syberia’s world into our own
This exhibit uses AR to bring a classic adventure game to life.
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It’s about time there was a lo-fi Blade Runner videogame
Our present reimagined from the future visions of the 1980s.
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This week, on HBO’S Game of Thrones presents TellTale’s the Walking Dead…
We need to talk about the game-ness of last night’s Game of Thrones episode.
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Ingenious coffee table doubles as labyrinth
Benjamin Nordsmark’s Labyrinth Table is not Kramer’s coffee table book about coffee tables—sadly, nothing ever will be—but it’s pretty damn cool nonetheless. “The Labyrinth Table,” writes Nordsmark, “was created to show how a well-known object like a table can be given an extra dimension by creati
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A Q&A with Amy and Ryan Green, creators of That Dragon, Cancer
“In day to day life, you don’t really get the chance to say, “See me, understand what has changed me.”
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Rioux’s latest EP realized as an irridescent glitch world
Getting inside a musician’s mind is relatively easy work these days. Whereas the 20th century was mostly restricted to whatever questions Rolling Stone proffered their subjects, now we have the miracle of multimedia practically opening up their skulls as if a hungry spoon scalping a ripe kiwi fruit.
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The terror of surrealist films stripped down to a traumatizing bone
Frank wakes up covered in blood and I may never sleep again. Game developer Daniil Ermakov, also known as Da Neel, combines the horrors of cult surrealist directors David Lynch and Alejandro Jodorowsky and produces a mish-mash of terror and humor in the face of human trauma. A Box Full of Joy is a s
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Mortal Kombat meets Nigerian politics in devastating satirical short
Nigeria, Africa’s largest exporter of oil, has recently been suffering from a severe oil shortage. The country’s fuel marketers and distributors have spent much of May on strike over government subsidies that have gone unpaid. In response to the strike, black market fuel prices have soared beyond th
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Step aside Nancy Drew: Jenny LeClue is the next evolution in teen girl detectives
A teen girl detective story mirrors the dark whimsy of Lynch’s Blue Velvet.