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Inside the videogame version of the Marina Abramovic Institute
How an art-world superstar got interested in indie games.
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Can Devine Lu Linvega create his own language? Or a new world?
Devine Lu Linvega’s occult language connects his games Nataniev and Hiversaires to the isolated streets of Tokyo. Also, he can see sound.
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Las Vegas’ new king of pinball doesn’t care what you think
Next time you’re in Vegas, go where the real men play: Tim Arnold’s Pinball Hall of Fame.
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The first Moby Dick card game is Shadow of the Colossus on the high seas
King Post wants to turn Herman Melville’s timeless tale of the sea and humanity into a rousing fight for your life.
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All Points Forward
Amid a crisis of portraying women in videogames, Resonance finds a progressive center in Anna, its heroine. The great seceret of writing above gender stereotpyes or misogyny? Write a human. It’s harder than it sounds.
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The Nonsense Art of Suda51
With provocative games like No More Heroes and Lollipop Chainsaw, Goichi Suda has been likened to a punk and an exploitation artist. But Michael Thomsen argues that his surreal oeuvre resists easy characterizations and must be likened to nonsense.
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Ball Locked
Toronto’s new silver ball hideout, The Pinball Café, hints at a nicer, hipper future of city arcades in a home-console world.
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The Quizmaster
It takes a lot of smarts to win at pub trivia, but what about the host? Filipe Salgado follows Toronto’s most beloved Quizmaster, and gains insight into how this descendant of television quiz shows is built to be lost gracefully.
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Folded Into Ourselves
One of the iPhone’s simplest ideas makes a difficult proposition on architecture. Kyle Chayka explains why Rem Koolhaas might love Tiny Tower.
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Poisonous Paragraphs
The transgender community has found an unlikely folk hero in Poison, a sexed-up Street Fighter character. Jason Johnson traces her murky evolution from concept sketch to rallying point.
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Alone in the Kitchen
Jasper Byrne’s horror opus Lone Survivor is set in the aftermath of a world-ending virus. We talked to Byrne about how he made the game’s rotten food a scourge, and a self-portrait.
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Profile: Stephen Lavelle
One of the most prolific developers in the burgeoning indie game scene, Stephen Lavelle recently released his first large-scale game production with English Country Tune. Filipe Salgado catches up with the recuperating developer about the transition from small to large games, the difference between