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Partly a synthesizer, and partly a puzzle game, Fract is essentially Portal meets Kraftwerk. What I mean by that is you’re lost in a broken machine-world and play with glow-y neon sounds. And while it’s hard to compare any electronic music anywhere to the canonized output of Ralf Hütter and Florian
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Meet the John Williams to Tim Schafer’s Spielberg.
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You smell that? That’s Alpine air.
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The musician, digital artist, and game maker Lionel Williams does some of everything, but his work can be summed up elegantly as perplexing, usually playable, acid-drenched experiments. That includes this music video/videogame he directed for his band Vinyl Williams’ latest single, Stellarscope. The
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Games have gone to the sword-and-sorcery well one too many times. Why can’t we get fantasy worlds like this? The trippy 25-minute music video by Eva Papamargariti explores the boundary between architecture and digital media using effects we still don’t have language for yet. The Greek artist name-d
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Why we trust the female voice, even if it’s coming out of a potato.
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Music is ineffable. Quoth Frank Zappa, “Writing about music is like dancing about architecture.” This is doubly true for talking about abstract music games like Sentris, the symphonic puzzle about sliding colorful blocks into centrical patterns and creating beats. Case in point, after listening to a
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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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Good things happen when games stop holding your hand.
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(Above, BioShock Infinite’s alternative cover art.) In recognition of all things that scroll to the right (Nike Fuel bands notwithstanding), a bunch of rad people (including Kill Screen!) are hosting a game exhibition in the holy land. No, not Columbia. Israel. The New Yorker blogged the most heart
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We talk to Deep Sea creator Robin Arnott about SoundSelf, the euphoric, psychedelic, and amazing joy-producing software that likes to be sung to.
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If the rest of Kentucky Route Zero turns out to be anything like the first chapter, the game will go down as a dark, strange, slick, mature, artistic, and mysterious venture unlike any other. My theory is that’s because while most adventure game designers pull from older adventure game designers for