Events
Nullsleep and Bit Shifter Revive Chiptune Resistance
The 2006 tour banner returns for one night of Game Boy club music at Momangen in Stockholm on Oct. 14.
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literary translation
Anna Nygren's poetry book treats language like a multiplayer game
Swedish writer Anna Nygren's blush / river / fox treats language like a game system—where translation gaps become mechanics and meaning emerges from interplay, not definition.
digital preservation
What Happens When You Preserve Your Games While You're Still Making Them?
Simon Flesser of Simogo preserves 15 years of iOS games not as you remember them, but exactly as they were—a radical act of fidelity over nostalgia.
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The loving horror of Let the Right One In lives on in this vampiric videogame
“Let the right one in Let the old dreams die Let the wrong ones go They do not They do not They do not see what you want them to.” -Morrissey In the past decade or so, the young vampire romance genre has inspired a couple of foreign films that speak to the classic motif while also seeing beyond
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The yarn-filled trailer for Unravel is sew adorable
You might remember Yarny from E3, when he made us wonder whether all videogames would eventually get Etsy-fied. Or you might remember his creator, Martin Sahlin, who was one of the few presenters at E3 who passed our fashion police‘s standards with flying colors (well, mainly just two colors: green
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Simon Stålenhag’s latest paintings depict sci-fi as through a child’s eyes
The beauty of an imaginary childhood is that it never has to end. You can keep going back to the well in search of inspiration. Thus, Swedish artist Simon Stålenhag, whose 2014 book Tales of the Loop depicted the suburban milieu of his youth albeit with a sci-fi twist, is now raising funds on Kickst
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Become a great game designer by living in a cabin in the woods
Why some Swedish seasoned game developers think that loneliness and nature can help make great games.
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Laser tag is out, questing is in
A Swedish company is bringing “questing centers” to North American shores.
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Blast haters with love bullets in First Person Lover
Haters gonna hate—until you liberate them with love smooches.
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Sweden’s sexism test for games is a great idea
Godspeed, Dataspelsbranchen!
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When You’re Gone, the game about breakup-purgatory
Or as we like to call it, Assassin’s Creed: The Breakup.
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Watch the trailer for a game that takes "life hack" pretty literally
Consider me else { excited() }. Or whatever.