Art
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.
Video Games
Art
Finding What's Lost in a Video Game Inspired by Haruki Murakami
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
Art
Digital Distractions: 'Twin Peaks' Dance-Off, Skull Glitches, and an 18th-Century Opera Puzzle
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.
Art
A Video Game Pits Michael Jackson Against Himself
“Two Michaels enter. One Michael leaves.”
News
Oblivious Games Company Turns Slave Trade into Tetris
After a social media uproar, the Denmark-based Serious Games Interactive removed a "Slave Tetris" mini-game from their Playing History: Slave Trade.
Art
Digital Distractions: Sleepwalking, Glitches, and Junk Mail
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
Art
Digital Distractions: Love, Color, and Clapping
In a new monthly series, we're highlighting a few games, apps, and interactive digital experiences recommended for the art crowd.
Art
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.
Art
Be the Bolshevik Wedge in a Game Inspired by El Lissitzky's 1919 Propaganda Art
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."
Art
Blast the Forces of Tradition in a Game Inspired by 20th-Century Modernism
What would a video game developed in 1923 by a bunch of angry modern artists look like?
Art
A Surreal Game Leaves You Stuck Inside a Train Station
In the video game Off-Peak, you're trapped in a train station that's a surreal concoction of New York City architecture
Art
I Visited the Tate (in Minecraft)
The widely beloved open world video game of Minecraft will now offer a new activity for its players to explore: interactive artworks presented by the Tate, the third installment of which was just released last week.