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Wrack evokes the greatness of shooters past
You have to keep moving and shooting, always.
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Un Chien Andalou’s eye-slicing scene becomes a videogame
“The goal is to give [the] player this short and strong experience of cutting [an] eye.”
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Recreate a 20-year-old joke in virtual reality, feel dead inside immediately afterward
A Night at the Roculus lets you slide a $350 virtual reality headset on and recreate that head-knocking Chris Kattan joke from mid-90s Saturday Night Live. It counts your “nods” and “pecks” as you jerk your head to the beat of the immortally corny track “What Is Love” by Haddaway. As Chris Kattan, e
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Dark Detour is a 21st century ghost story invading your social media this Halloween
It’s like Amityville Horror. Only with Facebook.
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Buddy Check, the app that helps you round up drunk friends at the end of a night
Let’s play the “herding your drunk friends like sheeple” game with Buddy Check.
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Wander through a forsaken pixelscape in Gaia Gestalt
We’ve traversed these blocky fields before—in Proteus, of course, and Minecraft, but also Eidolon, even The Long Dark. Still, the new procedurally generated world from Ed Curtis-Sivess holds allure: you can see the world being drawn, the horizon just a stone’s throw away, for one. We move from brigh
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Elegy for a Dead World turns writing poetry into play
Long-gone romantic British poets come alive with your words in Elegy of a Dead World.
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Flappy Bird as mid-life crisis
The depressing sight of a declining bank balance, struck by mortgages and overdue fees.
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First "official" H. P. Lovecraft videogame is a slow-burning horror
“Once you meet the monsters, they simply stop being scary.”
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Tri is like a first-person Monument Valley, and it’s out next week
If you thought Monument Valley was a little too not-first-person, have I got a game for you. The utterly batshit Tri takes that game’s perspective-exploding non-reality and lets you run through it, creating triangles (get it) to move from platform to dreamlike platform. If you want to see it in acti
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Do not fear the solar-powered hourglass; walk into its glowing eye
What is this? This is a solar-powered hourglass and it is also what God’s apartment looks like. The Argentinian designer Santiago Muros Cortes unveiled this futuristic alpha and omega as part of a competition to design an engine that would power 1,000 homes in Copenhagen. It won, because how do you
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The almost-real Lumino City will be almost-really available next month
Lumino City, that gorgeous, handcrafted follow-up to Lume that we’ve been talking about for months, is now pegged for release in November. The London-based duo behind the game, have built an intriguing world out of cardboard, found objects, and laser-cut pieces, and then reassembled them into a big