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doku_zen built Balming Tiger's "Janjan" video out of stop-motion puppets

Photographed puppets standing up in a 3D scene as flat cards, the same arrangement Doom used in 1993.

Game Type: Capture the School

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Game Type: Capture the School

When the power cut the Halo match short, eight teenagers carried its rules across the road and turned their empty high school into the map.

A Walk and The Talk: What to Play, July 31:

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A Walk and The Talk: What to Play, July 31:

Grief and routine come to pass in this week's Playlist selection

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Playground Safety is the Enemy of Joy

Playground Safety is the Enemy of Joy

Artist Temitayo Ogunbiyi bends Lagos security piping into playgrounds, arguing that risk, not safety, is what makes play matter.

Lou Faroux on Digital Apocalypse, the Kardashians, and Hollywood's Closeted Golden Age

Lou Faroux on Digital Apocalypse, the Kardashians, and Hollywood's Closeted Golden Age

French artist Lou Faroux uses game engines and AI avatars to ask what the internet did to us—and to resurrect Hollywood's closeted Golden Age.

What Happens When 100 Strangers Share a Single Controller for Eight Hours?

What Happens When 100 Strangers Share a Single Controller for Eight Hours?

Patrick Blenkarn and Milton Lim built a game that hands its labor back to the audience. asses.masses is eight hours of collective donkey revolution.

Sound Design Is the Most Ignored Art Form in Games. One Researcher Is Changing That.

Sound Design Is the Most Ignored Art Form in Games. One Researcher Is Changing That.

A new study asks why there are so few sound-first games—and what you'd hear if you finally stopped shooting and started listening.

Dickens and the Impossible Romances of Video Games

Dickens and the Impossible Romances of Video Games

The Witcher 3’s greatness has more to do with Leo Tolstoy than you’d expect.

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Games, play, and culture with Jamin Warren

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KS Radar: A man and his horse look for a vet

KS Radar: A man and his horse look for a vet

Plus stop-motion goodness from Jack King-Spooner and a bevy of updates from Alice Bucknell

Calling Off the Engagement

Calling Off the Engagement

How a zombie game pulls me in and pushes me away

I Want to Drag It as Long as Possible

I Want to Drag It as Long as Possible

Two decades of self-published comics taught Decadence Comics to take a deep breath. Their first game, Rhizomatic Compound, is built to slow you down.

What to Play: July 24th

What to Play: July 24th

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Ok, fine, let's talk some more about penalty kicks

Ok, fine, let's talk some more about penalty kicks

A reader comment sparked an interesting idea

The end of the world isn't so bad

The end of the world isn't so bad

Plus a defense contractor dreams of drones

Stephen Gillmurphy Doesn't Plan Past the Next Chapter [Podcast]

Stephen Gillmurphy Doesn't Plan Past the Next Chapter [Podcast]

A members' only chat with Irish writer and game designer Stephen Gilmurphy aka thecatamites

Playground Safety is the Enemy of Joy

Playground Safety is the Enemy of Joy

Artist Temitayo Ogunbiyi bends Lagos security piping into playgrounds, arguing that risk, not safety, is what makes play matter.

Playlist Session with Mitchell Chan [Members-Only]

Playlist Session with Mitchell Chan [Members-Only]

The Toronto-based artists and game designer joins me for a members-only chat

What to Play This Weekend: July 17

What to Play This Weekend: July 17

A ripping roaring ride through the Underworld

From Planet X to a Loveseat in Venice

From Planet X to a Loveseat in Venice

Also: free kicks, subcutaneous projection, and hand-crafted pixels

The Teenage Fantasies of Nikima Jagudajev

The Teenage Fantasies of Nikima Jagudajev

The Austrian-Uzbek artist and choreographer has always made worlds with their own rules—from a childhood fantasy game to Like, a video game built from years of live performance.

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