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The five-part documentary look at the world of videogame art concludes today
Co-creation.
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Mason Lindroth’s new game celebrates the malleability of his beloved clay
The most convincing argument for playing a Mason Lindroth game is increasingly becoming “because it’s a Mason Lindroth game.” Although you cannot predict what his next videogame will involve you can, at least, guess that it will be made of clay. Everything from hanging overgrowth coiled up into thin
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Honeysuckle lets you explore the feminine side of nostalgic videogames
Growing up as a girl.
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Riot – Civil Unrest, the videogame riot simulator, gets more relevant by the day
There are sad nights on Twitter, nights where one scene of senseless repression bleeds into the next. There have been plenty of these nights in recent years: Tahrir Square, London, Bahrain, Ferguson. Last night, it was Baltimore. Soon it will be somewhere else. For brief moments, the phenomenon of w
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Selfies are your only weapon in this videogame
The invading army carried selfie sticks, or maybe those were just their arms. At this point, aren’t all arms just selfie sticks anyhow? Aren’t all arms just selfie sticks anyhow? In Selfie Assault, an entry to the Ludum Dare 32 game jam, your army of one is armed only with a cellphone. You walk aro
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New episode of Let’s Play takes games beyond the screen
The first three installments of Laurent Checola and Thomas Kimmerlin’s micro-documentary web series Let’s Play invited viewers to examine the new frontiers for game designers, how they are participating in controversial conversations, and how they can challenge conventional notions of play and succe
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Does Not Commute lets you peek at the divergent obsessions of a 1970s suburb
Simon Flesser—better known as half of Simogo—has a distinctive talent for finding the extraordinary in the mundane. He weaves mysteries into unexpected places and listless characters in a such a way that it grips your curiosity and pulls you in. It’s what he, as a writer, brings to Does not Commute.
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Interactive exhibit features two decades of female game developers
From King’s Quest 1 to Portal.
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Go ghost-hunting in Geisterblut, a free-jazz blast of a videogame
Geisterblut is fucking nuts. Being “fucking nuts” appears to be its raison d’etre—its final screen, which you can reach in just a minute or two, hammers this home—but it’s not “trying to be fucking nuts” in the manner of, say, a Russell Brand bit. It is, rather, a free-jazz skronk, a noisy freakout
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Smooth Operator to bring people closer with awkward makeout sessions
Get gross and intimate.
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Chris Milk on VR: "It can change people’s perception of each other."
TED Talk on VR points to its use outside of games
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Rituals, the four-year artistic videogame diary, is due to arrive on May 27th
Tymon Zgainski is coming to the end of a four-year journey that has taken him from ennui to something closer to contentment, from teenager to adulthood. And now he has a date. His first-person exploration-adventure Rituals—formerly The Official—will be out of his hands and into the public’s on May 2