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For November's Digital Distractions, journey through Twitter as a rotund bird on a mission, relive the awkward AIM conversations of the early 2000s, and give a monster a makeover.
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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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If you've ever read Japanese author Haruki Murakami's magical realist fiction — filled with characters like a six-foot-tall "superfrog," a human data processor named Calcutec, and a cat killer who makes flutes out of cats' souls — and wished someone would turn his bizarre world into a video game, yo
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Walk through a glitchy realm of skulls and flowers, have a Twin Peaks dance battle in the Black Lodge, alter an alternative reality, and experience an 18th-century opera as a puzzle.
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“Two Michaels enter. One Michael leaves.”
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After a social media uproar, the Denmark-based Serious Games Interactive removed a "Slave Tetris" mini-game from their Playing History: Slave Trade.
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In a new monthly series, we’re highlighting a few games, apps, and interactive digital experiences recommended for the art crowd. For September, here's a simulation of an Italian Renaissance painting guild, a Surrealist puzzler, a glitchy Pac-Man, and the most thought-provoking game on junk mail yet
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In a new monthly series, we're highlighting a few games, apps, and interactive digital experiences recommended for the art crowd.
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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.
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In the game Lissitzky’s Revenge, you are the tiny red triangle against the mighty white circle depicted in El Lissitzky's 1919 Suprematist poster "Beat the Whites with the Red Wedge."
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What would a video game developed in 1923 by a bunch of angry modern artists look like?
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In the video game Off-Peak, you're trapped in a train station that's a surreal concoction of New York City architecture