In Brief
With their long shadows and lonely colonnades, Giorgio de Chirico’s paintings possess a strange allure. I've always wondered what it would be like to wander through them.
Art
At the 2015 IndieCade East hosted last month by the Museum of the Moving Image in Queens, Seth Alter of Subaltern Games said in a talk that he sets out to examine the problem of a genre and then tries "to subvert it and make something new with its existing systems."
Art
Apotheon brings the classical world of ancient Greek pottery to life as a full-length animated video game.
Art
This past weekend, the Museum of the Moving Image in Queens hosted Indiecade East 2015 for its third year of independent games, talks, and community networking.
News
One of the most disastrous video games in history is now part of the Smithsonian Institution.
Art
Manhattan may have an okay assortment of cultural institutions, but in Secret Habitat, a free game by Manchester-based indie video game developer Strangethink, users navigate an island that's home to 99 small museums.
News
A 19th-century Philadelphia smallpox epidemic and Henry David Thoreau's transcendental retreat into the woods are the subjects of two video games awarded grants by the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) this Monday.
Art
"Game visuals are the most obvious indicator of their technology," Stuart Brown says in his Pixel Pioneers short documentary series on the graphic history of video games. Last month he released the last of the five-part series on YouTube, concluding with contemporary hyperrealistic graphics that fee
Art
Theresa Duncan made a series of CD-ROM games in the 1990s aimed at young girls, encouraging imagination and adventure through playfully drawn, dreamlike narratives.
Art
If there’s any space that both parallels and accommodates Lu Yang’s highly exhilarating and provocative works, it's a sprawling arcade, a cornucopia of weirdness and inappropriate ideas.
Opinion
The Internet Archive, the non-profit behind the Wayback Machine and countless other digital resources, has just launched the Internet Arcade, a free online database of about 900 classic arcade games you can play in your browser.
Art
Curiosity was piqued across the games and museum communities last May when the Victoria & Albert Museum announced their first games designer in residence. Now games designer Sophia George has unveiled her first project in the residency.