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Urban Sprawl and Its Perfect Palm Trees Haunt This Eerie Game
Carl Burton's "Islands: Non-Places" is an interactive exploration into the strangeness of the mass-produced modern world.
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A Collection of Magical Realist Games for Your Smartphone
Returning after a 20 year break, the Triennale International Exhibition, which is centered at the Triennale Museum in Milan, has a new media update.
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Playing Operator on a Vintage Telephone Switchboard
Mike Lazer-Walker has repurposed a 1927 Western Electric 551-A switchboard into a hectic game that tasks players with quickly learning the obsolete job.
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Escape Your Home in a Game About the Anxieties of OCD
You're running late to work and need to get out the door in three minutes if you have any chance of making it to the office on time, but did you leave the stove on?
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In a Game Based on the Failing US School System, Leave No Pineapple Behind
No Pineapple Left Behind, from Subaltern Games, turns the controversial 2001 No Child Left Behind Act, which connected federal funding in American public schools to standardized test scores, into a bleak management game.
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In a Game, Foraging for Mushrooms with a Grandmother Who Listens
Lieve Oma is a game in which you hunt for mushrooms with your grandmother beneath trees saturated with autumnal colors. It's also about how a simple conversation can indicate so much more about a relationship, where the words unsaid echo as much as those spoken aloud.
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Dazzle or Distress Your Patron in a Sculpture-Building Game
Somewhere after the 10th waving, severed arm that I added to my masterpiece in Super Sculptor!, my patron's response switched from joy to horror.
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The First Museum Retrospective for a Video Game Artist Explores Why the Medium Matters
Whether a five-minute walk through one man's life or a maze that would take two millennia to explore, Jason Rohrer creates meaningful experiences that could only exist as games.
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Playing at Women's Liberation, World War I, and Colonialism in Vintage Board Games
In the 1917 board game "Suffragetto," two players compete as either police or suffragettes to defend their political bases.
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19th-Century French Caricatures Reinvented in a Game About Bird Lawyers
Aviary Attorney is a game based on the caricatures of 19th-century French artist J. J. Grandville, who skewered the aristocrats and politicians of his time by illustrating society figures as animals.
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Play a Tormented Painter in a Video Game of Creeping Terror
In Layers of Fear, a new game by the Poland-based Bloober Team, you are an artist who has gone completely insane.
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Gaming the Pop Culture Fantasy of the Vietnam War
Pop culture fetishization of war and violence of video games are explored with vivid watercolor-based animation in Eddo Stern’s Vietnam Romance, on view at Postmasters gallery in Tribeca.