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Emoji diversity is coming, and not a second too soon
See yourself in your phone.
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A videogame about exploring the afterlife puts peoples’ lives in your hands
Humans have been obsessed with the concept of the afterlife for millennia. Ancient scripture and papyrus dating back as far as 3000 B.C. describes our ensouled body’s decay as opening an aperture to another realm, where our conscience can reside for ever after. The Ancient Egyptians and Greeks were
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Sneak into DeityNet to trade secrets with cyberpunkers
DeityNet is an Alt.BBS community. DeityNet is a Messaging program. It is only for the greatest cyberpunks, Demosceners, and Crack Gangs in the Deios Operating System. If you do not belong to one of those categories then you should stay out. Do not participate. Go away. This is the warning that I mus
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Forensic crime dramas go to 19th-century Paris
This just in: apparently there’s more to forensic science than the 3D visualization on CSI.
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Newsgames, and the quiet quest to be worthwhile
There’s more to newsgames than stupid quizzes.
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Let the inky dread of Renoir wash over you in its first trailer
Renoir is a bleak, brooding puzzle-platformer from the recently formed Czech studio, Soulbound Games. No, the name is not a reference to the French impressionist painter, Pierre-Auguste Renoir, nor his lush, saturated style. Nor is it a reference to his son, Jean Renoir, whose film La Règle du jeu t
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homo synthetica talks human struggle with a sci-fi story
Insubordination in progress.
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The virtual Batcave looks good-maybe even too good
When Batman: The Animated Series first aired on Fox, the only way for me to explore the Gotham City it displayed on my TV was with my imagination. Minutes after each episode ended, I’d run outside with a cardboard shield covered in aluminum foil and a bat insignia I’d cut from black and yellow const
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FLOMM! is the videogame modern artists wish they could’ve made
The war between modern artists and traditionalists gets a videogame.
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An unusual Grand Rapids coffeeshop gets a videogame tribute
There’s a building that has sat at the west end of Grand Rapids, Michigan for over a century. It used to be a bank but has since been transformed into a coffee shop called The Bitter End. It sells loose leaf teas, Ghirardelli mochas, and something called a “bulletproof Tibetan coffee.” Its menu is t
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MIT is designing furniture that’s smarter than we are
The new project at MIT’s Self-Assembly Lab is a miniature chair that constructs itself.
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Torrent culture realized as a terrifying cinematic mashup
“Omnipresent telecommunications surveillance gains a global face.”