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Here’s why Marilyn Manson’s latest album was distributed on a PlayStation disc
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Our documentary look at the art of videogames continues
The first two episodes of Laurent Checola and Thomas Kimmerlin’s collaborative micro-documentary Let’s Play introduced the emerging communities of developers experimenting with how to create exciting new experiences and tell emotionally resonant, even controversial stories within games. The third in
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The legacy of Theresa Duncan and the technology behind its preservation
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The conspiracy theories are all true in this boy band dress-up game
What do aliens see when they look at One Direction? Do they see, a musical monstrosity straight out of Simon Cowell’s fever dreams, a band that can melt your heart with sincere ballads like the sublime “Gotta Be You”, or a blank cultural canvas that can be used to take over the world? use your boy
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This Japanese cat-ownership smartphone game is everything
Sign up to receive each week’s Playlist e-mail here! Also check out our full, interactive Playlist section. NEKO ATSUME (iOS, ANDROID) BY HIT-POINT CO. Owning a cat means coming home to a gift nearly every day. If it isn’t a half-eaten mouse then it’s a new scratch in the furniture, or a cardboard
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Glitch Wizard makes corrupting media as easy as applying Instagram filters
Glitches aren’t just a subcategory of digital art anymore. Adopted and popularized in various forms by everything from Marble Hornets to Game Jolt, the aesthetic has become the latest social media craze to transform average Joes with an iPhone and a Wi-Fi connection into true artistes. And while tha
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See how games are taking on the world in the next episode of Let’s Play
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Honoring the rich, bizarre universe of Doom’s user-created content
All images taken from the WADbot Tumblr. /// The virtual world of Doom is so big these days as to be intimidating. Since 1994, modders have been creating their own Doom levels with the tools that the game’s creator id Software released, as well as those they’ve made for themselves. All of these user
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At 1 World Trade Center, history and elevators make for an awkward pairing
There are things you want to see while locked in an elevator. And then there’s the sight of the neighboring skyscraper suddenly disappearing from the skyline. The elevators leading to 1 World Trade Center’s observatory offer both. This is not a malicious prank. As they ascend to the 102nd floor, the
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What are you doing tomorrow? Kill Screen takes over the Ace Hotel April 28
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Herald, an interactive period drama, to examine biracial identities in the colonial era
In our increasingly globalized society, the question “where are you from” has gotten mighty complicated for people. While it used to incite some inoffensive small talk, the question now raises a litany of asterisks and asides. For some, it even carries racist undertones, seen as a less direct way of
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Let’s Play: The Shining pays homage to the horror film’s most intense scenes
Fans of Stanley Kubrick’s cinematic adaptation of Stephen King’s horror-drama The Shining have obsessed over the finer details for years. You don’t have to search for long to find some of the wilder theories. There’s an hour-long documentary called “The Shining Code” about how people have decoded me