These crisp and meticulously-rendered screenshots of the train station from Half-Life 2 titillate and tease. Just how gorgeous would Half-Life 3 look on modern hardware? Not like that’s going to happen, but from time to time its good to rub fresh salt in old wounds. The shots come to us courtesy of
The artist and engineer Theo Jansen is famous for constructing strange, skeletal, self-propelled, kinetic sculptures that scurry eerily down the beaches of the Netherlands. He’s a guy we like to keep our eye(s) on because his work infuses architecture and artistry, much like games do. But now his wa
As part of a celebration of tech in Philadelphia on April 4th, the city is hosting a colossal game of Tetris on the side of a staggering piece of architecture. The Cira Centre, which stretches 29 stories into the night sky, will be lit up with familiar falling tetriminos. Those famous squares, L-pi
We kind of joke when we talk about Minecraft and say that one day the entire structure of the Earth with be plotted in coarse cubic pointillism; but maybe we’re not joking. At least Manhattan will be accounted for, as the ambition of Minecraft creator Christopher Mitchell is to model the 13-mile str
British media art studio Universal Everything is renowned for creating avant-garde and abstract projects. Having previously designed forward-thinking and provocative assignments for the likes of MTV, the Victoria & Albert Museum and the London Olympic Games 2012, their newest work is considered thei
