Artist Benjamin Grosser’s project “Variable Mirror” explores our relation to one of the most fundamental units of digital reality: the pixel. He explains: The pixel is the fundamental unit of digital imaging, a square representation of a single color. Pixels are always the same size, and always arra
Video I’m normally loathe to post new Minecraft projects (“Hey, we built Ford’s Theatre….in Minecraft!) but sometimes a project comes along that makes you rethink that policy. Behold the Magic Kingdom in block form. No work if you have to park in an adjacent town and walk over. TheRealDuckie explai
While developers Shock Panda totally jacked Zach Gage’s UI from SpellTower, their Letterbox is a novel permutation on the word game. You’re handed a 10×10 cube that you must deconstruct through THE POWER OF WORDS. But seriously, stringing together letters removes blocks which then makes the interior
Caine built an elaborate cardboard arcade to build awareness for his scholarship fun. ADORABLE. This better not be an ad. VIDEO [via Kottke]
Happy Tuesday! If you missed today in gaming news, fear not. Here is everything you need to know: A new legal settlement will require GameStop to warn customers about DLC and potentially refund them. The founder of Commodore passed away last Sunday at the age of 83. BioWare announced its official re
Despite any potential for brilliance in its hardware, the Microsoft Kinect has often seemed to struggle under the weight of its own cultural ambitions (see the recent ambivalent response to Kinect Star Wars). But in transforming a legendarily complicated custom controller (pictured above) into a ser
The Eye blog has some amazing images from Galt Toys today in recognition of a new exhibition of Ken Garland’s design work for the manufacturer. Speaking about the work, Garland sheds some light on how toy and game manufacturers began to see their products in terms of the unified design of a branded
Today at Kill Screen Richard Clark asked if a alternate reality game centered on being chased by virtual zombies could finally inspire him to exercise (spoiler alert: it does, but not nearly as much as being single can). Turns out the existence of a mobile app this ridiculous might be a symptom of a