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One of the best design agencies in the world just reinvented chess
A set for the ages.
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This playable music video conjures the slacker-raps of the ’90s
I sometimes fear that Basehead’s Play With Toys is lost to time. Originally released in 1992, the record got a lot of acclaim and little else: an immaculately low-key live-instrument take on hip-hop, with songs that seemed to have ambled into existence. On the microphone, Michael Ivey split the diff
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The experimental narrative vignettes of André Blyth
Both new flesh and tarot, in videogame form.
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Helix, the weirdly sedate new game from Michael Brough, is out now
In his first proper release since last year’s titanic cyber-roguelike 868-Hack (which made our top ten games of 2013), Michael Brough aims for something weirdly sedate. The aesthetic remains defiantly his—glitchy, esoteric, and weirdly lithe—but the movements now are not excruciatingly economic or a
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A look at the creative process, from the maker of Night in the Woods
Or: “the courage to share something incomplete.”
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Relish the look of Beyond Eyes’ watercolor visions
One-woman studio tiger & squid’s Beyond eyes reached nearly half of its Indiegogo goal last October. Since then it’s gone dark, only resurfacing this week to the news that publisher Team 17 (best known for the Worms series, but they’ve been diversifying as of late) has picked up the game for a 2015
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The Official captures all the struggles of early adulthood, in low-poly beauty
When I last spoke to Tymon Zgainski in late 2012, he had just entered his adult life, being a new student at the University of Edinburgh, and was “concerned with issues of modern civilization and our responsibility towards the environment we live in.” At the time, he was showing an image from his fi
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Three new games to dig into this week
Sign up to receive each week’s Playlist e-mail here! Also check out our full, interactive Playlist section. ALIEN: ISOLATION (PC, MAC, PS3/PS4, XBOX 360/XBOX ONE) BY CREATIVE ASSEMBLY Ridley Scott’s seminal space slasher Alien and the tension of a survival-horror game are such a perfect pair that it
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Vidcode is a programming tool geared toward teenage girls
With the technology industry considered male-dominated, many have wondered how to encourage more women into coding. Alexandra Diracles and Melissa Halfon have an idea: change the language. The result is Vidcode, interactive software geared toward teenage girls that enables them to customise Instagra
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Make sure you lose in "anti-racing" game Boxcar Brats
Triumph! At last.
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This mountain hut is like a crash-landed spaceship
Part LEGO and part crash-landed Borg cube, Atelier 8000’s entry into the Kemarská Chata (Kemarská Hut) international architectural competition would have looked right at home in the High Tatras peaks of Slovakia. The design team said that the “clean simple cube shape” is intended to evoke a scene
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iNation asks, "Where did your family’s immigrant story begin?"
Being American means being some degree of foreign.