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For once, a Lovecraft videogame adaptation done right
Think outside the bug-creatures.
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This Seussian speech synthesis machine was the ’80s alternative to Siri
Once upon a time in 1989, before app-whisperers like iPhone’s Siri and Windows’ Cortona fit conveniently in our jean pocket, people built rather large and strange-looking speech synthesis machines, like this one. The Talking Machine, a 230cm rack of pipes that looks like something out of Dr. Seuss,
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Kentucky Route Zero dev says moral choices in games are pretty worthless
Moral choices in games come in one of two or three colors. You can go with killing the zombie-infected kid, or you let him live. Speaking with GameChurch, who continues to consistently pump out thoughtful, provocative interviews, the devs of Kentucky Route Zero called into question the ridiculous, b
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Check out these hand-drawn tributes to mysterious glitch Pokemon types
Glitch Pokemon have a special place in every Pokemon fanatic’s heart. Sure, they could eat your save, but the fact that you could fight alongside a scrambled error in the code such as ‘M or Missingno was so unreal and cool that it was worth the risk. That’s why illustrator Jordan Rosenberg and Iasm
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This 2D beat’em up has elevator-scene-in-Drive levels of violence
The beat ’em up gets graphic.
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One man’s obsessive vision to print out the entire Internet
The poet Kenneth Goldsmith is in the midst of an absurd endeavor to print out the Internet. All of it. This naturally irked the Internet who formed a petition called “Please don’t print the internet,” as if his very subject was an unwilling participant in his art. He obstinately refused to stop, as
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This Disney-themed tarot deck would melt Aleister Crowley’s black heart
In tarot, you have two extremes. You have grim-looking cards covered in foreboding occult symbols that will rub out your soul. And you have this rosy deck of Disneyania that reminds you of all your favorite animated features from Walt’s golden years. The Disney Major Arcana, created by the very tale
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Factorio gives the middle finger to SimCity’s vision of industrial utopia
SimCity is about building a flourishing biome where citizens can live without dying of smog. Factorio, contrarily, says screw that. It is a game about wrecking the environment by building sprawling, Rube-Goldbergian, obscene, waste-shitting factories out of conveyer belts and tens of thousands of cl
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Watch how a Japanese villager is replacing the dead with real-life NPCs
Take a moment and watch this micro-documentary on a 64-year-old Japanese woman who is sewing elaborate dolls, leaving them in the place of departed neighbors from her dying village in the valley of Shikoku. For the past decade, Ayano Tsukimi has been repopulating the remote village of Nagoro with ar
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I’ve got 99 problems but Notch’s new game about existential dread isn’t one
The bowler-hat-wearing, dubstep-bash-throwing Minecraft creator created a quick little game about exploring the squirmy mental content of a nihilist. Coded for the latest Ludum Dare game jam, Drowning in Problems is sort of an existential take on the Cookie Clicker genre. This text-based, choice-lad
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Amazing VR experiment turns your living room into an interdimensional drawing app
Crazy things happen when you combine a Kinect with an Oculus Rift, like drawing with your finger in thin air and watching shapes that defy the laws of nature levitate over your living room set. As we can see in this fever dream of a video clip, programmer Matt Guertin has invented a mind-bending 3D