Only in consumer video game fandom would there even be a debate about whether or not content "should be" political.

Come along with me and revisit a classic Lucasfilm Games experience. There's a lot special about LOOM, which recently went on sale at the DRM-free digital store Good Old Games.

The ideal of "getting home for Christmas" is tinged with romance, conjuring images of rushing through snow and the chaos of transit to that ultimate family seat. For most of… Read the rest of the article: Play it now: Bus Station Unbound

Sam Barlow's VHS-styled Her Story is a game about true crime, voyeurism, and the monstrous specter of women who kill.

TouchTone is a dark, smooth puzzle game about the surveillance state. The player manipulates simple, clean circuits of light — and once they all connect, must review information logs and… Read the rest of the article: If you see something, play something?

My friend Erin Robinson had been wanting to make games — sketching, designing and editing them in her own imagination — since childhood. Just last month, she finally released Gravity… Read the rest of the article: Watch: On the unique madness of game-making

What would visitors from space think if they saw your sexts? Nonsense words accompanied by alien knobs of human flesh — the creases, the arresting hairs and things. Would it… Read the rest of the article: Finally, you can sext with a bot

Ben Esposito's Donut County will whet your appetite for compelling physics — and consumerism metaphors

Train stations are weird. Commercial art monoliths jammed into awkward industrial spaces for the arbitrary pleasure of the commuter — and cracks, too, for all kinds of people to fall… Read the rest of the article: Play it now: Off-Peak

Nintendo today announced it would partner with Japanese mobile game giant DeNA to create new games based on the company's brands.

We don't usually play as older women in games, let alone as moms. But in Little Party, you're a mother in a deep, wooded home that makes a perfect retreat… Read the rest of the article: Play it now: Little Party

Games can be an inviting tool to educate young people on social issues — like how to recognize the signs of an abusive relationship, how to help a friend or… Read the rest of the article: Can games help prevent teen dating violence?

Bizarre and wonderful things can happen when you ask game developers to experiment with input devices. When teams are asked to work with alternative controls to the boring old keyboard… Read the rest of the article: Butt Sniffin' Pugs is a game that exists

Here's a genre mash-up you might not expect: Classic narrative-driven adventure games and two-dimensional space shooters?

We often think about artificial intelligence in terms of what we can use it for. But what if AIs sometimes need us instead? What happens when the therapist becomes the… Read the rest of the article: Eliza needs you, now

Yesterday, March 11, was Douglas Adams' birthday. Did you know you can celebrate by playing the 1984 Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy game in your browser at work this instant?… Read the rest of the article: You can play the Hitchhiker's Guide game right now

Want to be less popular at cocktail parties on the West Coast? Try being a virtual reality skeptic. I can't help but feel validated, though, by this post from Wagner… Read the rest of the article: Meet an artist doing provocative work with a VR headset

Video games have an issue with memory. Sometimes development and culture within the medium ends up locked in obeisance to nostalgia, an assumed audience of pixel art and chiptune fans… Read the rest of the article: We have a memory problem

I haven't decided whether or not I'll become a mother. I'm at the age where I think a lot about it. It frightens me.

Video game breasts are one of the video game industry's albatrosses.