There's something a little mysterious about the programs you can find in strange corners of the internet, and doubly so if you happen to find them in the bowels of… Read the rest of the article: Explore a mysterious hard drive and reconstruct a broken world
I was ready to love Murder from the moment the game opened on a female police lieutenant waking from a rain-soaked cyberpunk nightmare about murderous robots, and walking out on… Read the rest of the article: This cyberpunk murder mystery looks lovely, but feels incomplete
If you like adventure games and have a few minutes to spare, the latest creation of Leon Chang should be your next distraction—and you don't even have to leave Twitter… Read the rest of the article: An adventure game you play without ever leaving Twitter
As concepts for games go, this is a new one: propelling a regenerating fungus through a long series of puzzles by surgically destroying it and forcing it to regrow. And… Read the rest of the article: Take control of a giant fungus by carefully destroying it
It's easy to feel like an automaton in the world of modern office labor. The game Human Resource Machine takes that one step further, by imagining an office building that… Read the rest of the article: Human Resource Machine will teach you to program and it will be adorable
Investors may have balked, the internet at large has proved more open-minded about opening the wallet.
What our brains learn, they can also unlearn—including what makes us anxious. That's the idea behind Neurotic Neurons, an interactive work by Nicky Case that explores the neuroscience of anxiety,… Read the rest of the article: Take an interactive look inside an anxious brain with Neurotic Neurons
The moment I tried to start the demo for the upcoming horror game Calendula, it broke. "FATAL ERROR," read the pop-up message when I tried to start a new game.… Read the rest of the article: Calendula is a horror game that will stop you from playing it
The impossible architecture puzzle game Monument Valley is pretty soothing—it's inspired hours of ASMR videos, if that's your jam—but the newest iOS release from Monument Valley developer Ustwo takes things… Read the rest of the article: PAUSE, a relaxation app from the studio that created Monument Valley
You don't have to care about a sport to care about the people who play it.
Grammar: It's boring to talk about, unless you're that type of person. Which personally I am, though I recognize that the eyes of most normal humans glaze over like donuts… Read the rest of the article: This 'guide to ambiguous grammar' is unexpectedly disturbing
Quick, make something creatively fulfilling before time runs out!
We've seen Disney princesses reinterpreted as men, as minions, and even as velociprators, but this—this is something different altogether. [Lucky Peach]
The co-creator of The Stanley Parable has a new game that uses game design space in expressive, subversive ways.
Way back in 1902, a French manufacturer released a set of trading cards designed by artist Albert Bergeret that imagined the "women of the future." The cards envisioned women stepping… Read the rest of the article: 1902 trading cards imagine the 'Women of the Future'
Historically, the Pokémon franchise has focused its merchandising efforts on the parts of Pokémon characters that were not their butts. But that's about to change, thanks to a new wave… Read the rest of the article: The new face of Pokémon is butts
Tentacles made of cubes reach for you from within the watery abyss. "You're not supposed to be here," an unseen being informs you as you descend into the first level… Read the rest of the article: The geometric horror game Euclidean is Lovecraft levels of scary
The Earth is round, and maps are flat. While we have may mapped nearly every inch of our world, figuring out how to translate that information from three dimensions to… Read the rest of the article: The Mercator Puzzle reminds you how deceptive maps can be
I've never watched an opera before, but the new iOS game Magic Flute by Mozart makes me want to.
While delightful on their own terms, the icing on the cake of the Portal games has always been the songs by Jonathan Coulton that play over their end credits.
