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Marc Essen’s Playlist pick Nidhogg comes to Mac
Finally.
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Harvard architecture students turn Tokyo into brain-melting digital playground
Do architects make the best game designers?
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Finally, a first-person shooter arena made out of LEGOs
Writing in The Atlantic, author Christine Gross-Loh was unsettled by how quickly young boys turn to guns for free play: Then my firstborn went to a birthday party. In the goodie bags for these four-year-olds was a plastic toy gun. My son was utterly riveted. I tried to coax it away from him. “Bang b
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Back to Bed, a surrealist sleepwalker, stumbles out in August
A Danish student project springs to life.
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Hurry The Sorry Word echoes with a raw deathly blues classic
This time it’s you.
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Abstract strategy game Constructo is looking extremely pretty
Yeah, eurogames get the lion’s share of praise and adulation, but abstract strategy games need love too, especially when they’re as nice-looking as this one. Your goal in Constructo, currently in the home stretch of a 1500 euro Indiegogo campaign, is to build geometrical shapes from laser-cut tiles
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Secrets of Raetikon art book is somehow even more gorgeous than the game
Now there is a gorgeous companion art book for Broken Rules’s Secrets of Raetikon, a pretty awesome game that hangs its hat on mysterious, triangular sunsets and ruthless bird versus bird action. We really liked it. And it was very easy on the eyes too. Well, now you can get it cheap on this week’s
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The almost-literally indescribable Paradise is coming to mobile
Ready your nouns for verbing.
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Happy Independence Day from Kill Screen
Go play a videogame.
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This stunning installation turns a theater into an alien universe
Nimbes, a star-laced installation from artist Joanie Lemercier, is kind of like the field trip you took to the planetarium in 5th grade, except wondrous and immersive and not at all lame. Currently showing at a 360 degree, kaleidoscopic theater in Montreal, it is 15 minutes of cylindrical film that
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Gone Home gets the retail release treatment, now comes in an old-school SNES box
Our favorite game of last year has unexpectedly gotten a physical release on DVD, which is perfect because one day many years from now your kid can find it on your shelf, boot it up, and have a very strange and metaphysical experience. “Gone Home is a story about a high schooler in the ’90s, and is
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This handheld gizmo turns urban pollution into cool abstract art
Pollution is all around us, swirling invisibly and sometimes not-so-invisibly through the air in wisps of gasses and dust particles. This is a fairly disgusting consequence of post-industrial living. But Digioxide, an art project by vtol, makes environmental contamination all glitchy and pretty. Th