The game design of monarchies
Gating and the eighteenth century court.
History
A new book uncovers the tumultuous past of Monopoly
In the process, author Mary Pilon becomes an agent of history herself.
Soon, you’ll be able to smell ancient civilizations with your iPad
See and smell the past.
Paradise Never tackles the endless cycle of French revolution
Live. Die. Repeat.
The Order: 1886: Whitechapel, Red Barrels
A world—a city—that deserves more
Long Live Grim Fandango
The greatest adventure game ever made returns from the dead.
Octopussy is the James Bond videogame that got away
Where’s Q-branch when you need it?
FLOMM! is the videogame modern artists wish they could’ve made
The war between modern artists and traditionalists gets a videogame.
Sunset preview hints at a story told in small details
More history needs to be told around the margins.
Playlist: The Metroidvania goes to Ancient Greece
Sign up to receive each week’s Playlist e-mail here! Also check out our full, interactive Playlist section. APOTHEON (PC) BY ALIENTRAP Apotheon uses the geometric constraints of a Greek sculpture to explore the limits of beauty and glory. It’s beautiful, sensuous, and deadly, which isn’t surprisi
Watch the "Queen of Code" Grace Hopper kick ass and take names in this documentary
This documentary about computer science trailblazer Grace Hopper will change the way you see programming.
Cast off your corporeal form and haunt a Victorian Manor in Goetia
Unravel the mysteries of Blackwood Manor as a Victorian ghost.
The videogame that 19th-century high-society British people would’ve played
Find love in Solitaire with this historial romance fiction card game.
If you build it, will they come back?
World of Warcraft and Detroit have responded similarly to dwindling populations.
Everyone at the CIA is playing a puzzle game named Kryptos
Games at work are good for national security
Win an all-expense-paid trip to Revolutionary France in Assassin’s Creed Unity
Rising above the crowd in this year’s meta-epic.
Halo: The Master Chief Collection is a model for preserving videogame history
We’re surprised, too.
Beyond Earth envisions a more "realistic" future, but we may not want to live there
In which we humans fumble through the cosmos.
Studio Oleomingus wants to take us to an impossible Somewhere
A collection of shorts, fragments of a mirror.
What can Civilization V teach us about history?
Playing around with, you know, the story of humanity.
Totem’s Sound takes a cynical look at American colonialism
Digital colonialism gets a new look.
Videogame based on Borges short story is in fact Borgesian
Solve the riddles of Borges’s A Garden of Forking Paths in this enigmatic videogame.
The Destiny beta’s unacknowledged debt to the Space Race
Unearthing the space age rhetoric and iconography of Destiny.
Why a new edition of Dungeons and Dragons matters
The first step in evaluating a new era of roleplaying games.
