How a surprising iPhone and Apple Watch bestseller is pushing the boundaries of fiction

Even if you're not a fan of fighting games, you should try Bed✰hogg, a game about beating another child in the face with a pillow.

The stars of Hayao Miyazaki's films recede into the background in a series of prints inspired by Japanese woodblock artist Kawase Hasui.

On a distant digital hillside, two mountains are yelling your Twitter updates at each other in deep, sonorous voices.

When her three newborn kittens died after being born prematurely, Mikey the cat was inconsolable.

In its opening screen, Royals describes itself as an "optimistic peasant simulator." This turns out to be a rather grim tagline, given how unlikely it is that your character will… Read the rest of the article: This 1-bit 'peasant simulator' is the new game by the creator of Threes

Thousands of classic games from Prince of Persia to Wolfenstein 3D are available for free on the Internet Archive, and now you can embed and play them directly inside of… Read the rest of the article: Play games like Oregon Trail or SimCity inside your own tweets

An inexplicably-soothing audiovisual phenomenon is making fascinating inroads toward interactivity, futurism and VR

You can do a lot of things in Photoshop, but rarely do you use its tools to defeat flaming skulls in an alternate dimension.

A week or two ago, I took part in my first Ludum Dare—Latin for "to give a game"—a recurring event that picks a theme and asks participants to make a… Read the rest of the article: 5 games with weapons you'd never expect

What if the green-capped adventurer of the Zelda games was a little girl who lived in a mysterious floating city?

I spent my 20s in the service industry, overworked and underpaid. Why, now, do these games help me relax?

Want to know your destiny? Then get ready to physically fight with your closest pals.

Sometimes I can't tell how much of my affection for cats is genuine and how much is the toxoplasmosis talking, but in the end it doesn't matter: I love their… Read the rest of the article: I can't stop collecting cats in this Japanese smartphone game

There's a secret desire that lingers in the heart of every loaf of bread: to burn.

If you like math, puzzles or winter sports, you need to play Sinerider, a sledding game where you transform the slope with math equations.

The Book of Mojo started as an "urban fantasy" webcomic, the tale of a young black girl named Creepy who practices street magic and encounters a seven-foot, living artifact named… Read the rest of the article: A young black girl is the hero of this magical, animated story

The recent Twiny Jam, which challenged anyone and everyone to create their own tiny Twine text game in 300 words or less, has revealed the merit of constraint: The idea… Read the rest of the article: 7 cool text games with less than 300 words

I've always wanted to know the difference between perseverance and masochism. This is the game that taught me.

Ever play a video game so often that it shows up in your dreams? That's the idea behind Doomdream, an interactive experience created by Ian MacLarty to simulate what his… Read the rest of the article: Wander through Doom like an endless nightmare