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In our first installment of Drinking Games, Manveer Heir? lays down the new Flip Cup law in an update to a modern classic.

The musician and artist Roberto Carlos Lange talks to us about making art with Atari Video Music, a childhood playing with machines, and seeing music.

Are all games the sum of their rules and systems? According to the field of ludology, the formal logic of a game is where its soul resides. Jason Johnson argues that bridging the gap between system and meaning is a more tenuous proposition than ludologists acknowledge. Read the first of this three-p

This past summer New York’s High Line park was overtaken by rainbows. The artists behind the installation Rainbow City talk to us about colored smoke, the toys they handmade as children, and the deeply spiritual uses of play.

Our art history columnist wonders if videogames will deliver on the promise of the socially-conscious Rosewood and the cyberpunk scenario of Total Recall—where the memories of others can be experienced vicariously, for the better. Her case? A lost boy in Heavy Rain.