Art
Play a Free, Short Game Every Day This Year
Meditations is a year-long project offering 365 short games, each playable only on the day of its release.
Video Games
Art
A Video Game Shows the True Colors of Ancient Greece
For a video game that includes extraterrestrial beings and time travel, Assassin's Creed: Odyssey is shockingly faithful to what Ancient Greece looked like during its golden age.
Art
Sculpt the World in the First Nintendo Game Developed by an African Studio
The video game Semblance by the South Africa-based Nyamakop studio has players reshaping a malleable digital world before it petrifies.
Art
A Video Game Takes You Cross-Country into the Origins of American Folklore
Where the Water Tastes Like Wine is a game of gathering and sharing stories, which grow and change in the telling.
News
A Playable Archive of 74 Retro Games, Including Frogger, Tamagotchi, and Donkey Kong
The Internet Archive has uploaded emulations of classic games to Handheld History, a free digital library, allowing for old-school experiences on modern computers.
Art
The Casual Colonialism of Lara Croft and Indiana Jones
An anthropologist and a historian weigh in on the troubling genre of the archaeological adventure story.
Art
Wander the Lost City of Teotihuacán in Minecraft
At San Francisco's de Young Museum, an interactive dive into the ruined pre-Columbian metropolis.
Books
A Satiric History of Video Games
Do the games Earthworm Gym, Lizard Designer Pro, Vin Diesel's Weasel Easel, Silent Butcher, or Wrestlechess intrigue you? If so, then this book is for you.
Art
Efficient Roadway or Gridlocked Nightmare? The Choice is Yours in this Highway Engineering Game
Freeways by Justin Smith is an urban planning simulator where players construct complex highway systems while avoiding traffic jams.
Art
Drive a Hand-Drawn Tram for Cats in This Illustrated Game
Artist Alexander Perrin's Short Trip is a hand-drawn interactive game in which players drive a trolley for cats.
Art
You're a Medici. Can You Support the Renaissance's Best Artists, or Will You Be Exiled?
ARTé: Mecenas from Triseum is a game on the economies of art, set in the tumultuous Italian Renaissance, in which you are a Medici patron.
Art
Stroll a Fauvist Shore in a Digital Tribute to André Derain
FAUVISTa is a digital exploration of the Fauvist colors and brushstrokes in André Derain's 1905 "Bateaux à Collioure."