The charm of making worlds in The Strange
Designers Monte Cook and Bruce Cordell want to take you places in their new game “The Strange“—their worlds, your own, and those of your favorite films, books, and video games.
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Meet the voxel, the pixel’s long-lost cousin, and why it became videogames’ Betamax
Ken Silverman spent his early adulthood hoping to voxels would make him the game generation’s Edison. Instead, he became its Tesla.
SimCity is a textbook in modernist architecture and playpen for future builders
The beleaguered SimCity has suffered a dent in its reputation after a shaky launch. But beyond the server woes and consumer complaints, a jewel of digital urban planning arises.
Valve’s mad-scientist tinkerer Jeri Ellsworth has left the building. Now she can get back to inventing amazing things!
Valve certainly aren’t gun-shy about ousting their best-known talent. Though critics and fans admiration of Portal approached adulation, designer Kim Swift soon parted ways with the company. And you might have heard that after only a year Jeri Ellsworth — the quirky electric engineer who began her c
Could 3D printers pave the way for world-class architects to create make-believe worlds?
As games crossed over from niche pasttime to mainstream success, more and more world-class artists have lent their vision to the pursuit of digital leisure. Stephen Spielberg has put his fingers in many a game-pie, from 1995’s PC adventure The Dig to the unrealised project for EA, codenamed LMNO [ht