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Google’s AI has conquered Tetris. Next up? The world
The robots are not coming for your games.
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A new virtual reality game buries you alive in an actual coffin
Taphophobia, the fear of being buried alive, is described as being “irrational.” It’s not. An irrational fear is being scared of being shot into orbit while sleeping, or crocodiles crawling down your chimney—the likelihood of either happening is super slim. But you could be buried alive tonight or t
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Hunger is an eerie descent into lost innocence, and it looks great
Beware of creepy dead arms that want to give you hugs.
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Listening in on the Londoners who talk to their street signs
Mobstr’s new street art encourages Londoners to talk to roundabouts and signposts.
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This week’s Playlist pick: Alto’s Adventure
Sign up to receive each week’s Playlist e-mail here! Also check out our full, interactive Playlist section. ALTO’S ADVENTURE (iOS) BY SNOWMAN As an “extreme sport,” snowboarding is typically afforded coarse adjectives: slicing, shredding, and tearing across the snow. Alto’s Adventure forgoes these
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Simogo announces four-part "podcast mystery," is just the coolest
“Deep breath.” /// Swedish pair Simon Flesser and Magnus Gardebäck, the two personalities that form Simogo, have proven their talent in producing air-sucking audiences. Year Walk was a creepy folk-thriller that you gasped along to. DEVICE 6 used text as a path to weave a tale of regular staccato; yo
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Digital Sweat turns erotic content into online art
Is this attractive? Should it be?
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Winter is here, and so is a game about hugging snowmen
Find the love in snow that you once knew.
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Let this vaporwave adventure wash over you
SEAQUEST1992 might be the most vaporwave game ever made. This isn’t only due to its deliberate similarities to 1992’s action-adventure Ecco the Dolphin—which has since lent its namesake to vaporwave’s iconic ’80s-pop mixtape Eccojams—it’s a smorgasbord of the movement’s entire characteristics. It’s
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Laser tag is out, questing is in
A Swedish company is bringing “questing centers” to North American shores.
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The Forced Finger Project: Can A Machine Help You Sketch Like a Pro?
If the early days of your time at design school were anything like mine, you probably look back fondly (maybe a bit too rose-tintedly) on simpler days of ‘getting back to basics’ with hour after hour of practice drawing free-hand straight lines, ellipses, and cuboids in perspective (kids still do th
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The AI in Fire Theft only wants to be your friend, and it’s adorable
Fear of artificial intelligence seems to be on everyone’s lips lately, especially since Elon Musk, Stephen Hawking, and Bill Gates publicly stated that it will be humanity’s certain doom (I’m paraphrasing). Yet, while technological singularity remains one of sci-fi’s favorite villains, movies like H