It’s Disappointing to Go Alone
The critically championed Journey can be taken together or solo. Either way, it’s arguably an interpersonal desert, due to creative decisions that leave little to the imagination. Here’s why.
Essay
I Can Haz You?
If dog is man’s best friend, what are cats? Humans have grappled with the creatures since the beginning; and as videogames show, we are still circling each other warily.
One Small Step
NASA ended its moon program. Can it bring the rest of us into space with videogames?
To Infinity and Beyond
Do we need to rethink our priorities? How games secretly take our minds to the endless places that math and science cannot.
The Planetarium at Play
An indie gaming collective from a basement in Queens recently took over New York’s Hayden Planetarium in the American Museum of Natural History. How does a DIY reinvention hold up against everyone’s favorite field-trip destination?