I didn't truly appreciate what a miracle is YouTube til I realized how many half-remembered Sesame Street sketches, songs and puppet shows from my grainy, nostalgic childhood could be found… Read the rest of the article: Mystery of creepy 1970s Sesame Street clip solved

Back in the mid-90s, late game maker Theresa Duncan made some unconventional, ground-breaking CD games based on the everyday experiences of young girls. There's now a Kickstarter campaign to bring… Read the rest of the article: Help preserve feminist video gaming history

At Motherboard, Claire Evans presents a brilliant "Oral History of the First Cyberfeminists, sharing bits of her correspondence with pioneering Australian tech-goddesses Josephine Starrs, Julianne Pierce, Francesca da Rimini and… Read the rest of the article: The clitoris is a direct line to the matrix

There are a lot of album of the year lists, but Hype Machine's Zeitgeist 2014 list is a bit special.

White wine goes with fish and red wine goes with meat. But some new research from the Crossmodal Research Laboratory at the University of Oxford has apparently unearthed evidence of… Read the rest of the article: How sound affects taste

One of my favorite games of recent years, Papers, Please (previously), just appeared on iPad. It'll be a good fit for the platform, and I hope this means more people… Read the rest of the article: Now you can play as a border guard on iPad

Photo: Reuters Jetta Rae Robertson brings us the view from the front line of recent Berkeley protests on recent police violence against black people.

Photo: Andy Baio When writer and technologist Andy Baio had a son, he thought it would be a good opportunity for an experiment (as you do): I love games, and… Read the rest of the article: Methodically train your child to be an arcade whiz

The Ludum Dare international game jam is probably the largest event of its kind — and the longest running, at over 12 years. Three times a year, game developers are… Read the rest of the article: Play thousands of 48-hour game jam entries

If you grew up in the comfortable eighties, you might still have memories of the 16-bit console war, the perverse thrill of wishing for a Super Nintendo or a Sega… Read the rest of the article: The book of Genesis

The visual style and fashion of Twin Peaks has never looked so cool as it does these days, if you ask me. Paste Magazine has put together a little "style… Read the rest of the article: Dress like Twin Peaks

Two recent Storify pages provide some fascinating insight on how this group came to conceive of "gamer" as a fictional "ethnicity" with a persecution complex (from Katherine Cross), as well… Read the rest of the article: Some worthwhile cultural analysis on Gamergaters

York University's Jim Austin, a teacher of neural computing, has accumulated some 1,000 machines across 30 years of collecting obsolete computers. He keeps them in four sheds at the top… Read the rest of the article: A farmhouse shrine to obsolete computers

This American Life offshoot Serial, where Sarah Koenig is presently digging into the 1999 murder of 18 year-old Hae Min Lee, has become a sensation. Koenig's deep dive into the… Read the rest of the article: Serial and the uncomfortable sensation of reality radio

Polish developer 11bit Studios' recently-released This War of Mine, a bit of a different look at video games' favorite setting. Focused on hiding, building and survival, it puts the player… Read the rest of the article: A haunting war game about civilian survival

Did you know you can enjoy raw eggs relatively fearlessly in the UK? As an American often found hiding out in England, I was surprised to learn that they don't… Read the rest of the article: Making egg nog for the British

You might know artist and designer Keita Takahashi for his iconic, idiosyncratic Katamari Damacy (previously). Last year, he joined Funomena to work with longtime friend and Journey producer Robin Hunicke… Read the rest of the article: Wattam, new game from Katamari Damacy creator, is about connections

This beautiful Toei Animation film, Hans Christian Andersen's The Little Mermaid, was part of a Japanese film festival in 1975, and later reached the U.S. in 1979. My dad taped… Read the rest of the article: Did this 1975 anime inspire Disney's Little Mermaid?

Leigh Alexander on what changed between then and now: no-one calls the police in small-town TV shows anymore. Modern entertainment always has something to say about who we are, what we want and what we fear.

Leigh Alexander talks to Scott Pilgrim creator Bryan O'Malley about his new book, Seconds, and moving on to a new character–one for whom the imagined burdens of middle age loom large.