Books
In a new book of essays, The Psychology of Zelda: Linking Our World to the Legend of Zelda Series, psychologists and video game scholars probe the existential questions at the heart of the beloved video game franchise.
Art
Meditations is a year-long project offering 365 short games, each playable only on the day of its release.
Art
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
The video game Semblance by the South Africa-based Nyamakop studio has players reshaping a malleable digital world before it petrifies.
Art
Where the Water Tastes Like Wine is a game of gathering and sharing stories, which grow and change in the telling.
News
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
An anthropologist and a historian weigh in on the troubling genre of the archaeological adventure story.
Art
At San Francisco's de Young Museum, an interactive dive into the ruined pre-Columbian metropolis.
Books
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
Freeways by Justin Smith is an urban planning simulator where players construct complex highway systems while avoiding traffic jams.
Art
Artist Alexander Perrin's Short Trip is a hand-drawn interactive game in which players drive a trolley for cats.
Art
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.