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I don't often share my music, but on a whim I decided to put together a mixtape to commemorate the past four years spent living in New Y...

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Episode 2 of Interesting Choice is now up. Polls are open until noon EST tomorrow, so go to www.interestingchoice.com to vote!

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Episode 1 of Interesting Choice is now up. Polls are open until noon EST tomorrow, so go to www.interestingchoice.com to vote!

The first episode of Interesting Choice is now up. Polls are open until noon EST tomorrow, so go to www.interestingchoice.com to vote!

I've got a new project in the works. Announcing Interesting Choice: A Webseries As You Like It , a crowdsourced narrative where the view...

Last weekend, I attended the second annual Global Game Jam at NYU. The Game Jam is a sort of worldwide endurance/speed game-development eve...

Game Developers In the Games of Madness » "How Gameplay and Narrative kill Meaning in 'Games'" Game Industry New York G...

In Upgrade Complete! , you play a Galaga-style shooter to blast enemies and collect money for upgrades in order to max out your game — not j...

Nice video showing the ubiquitous use of greenscreen effects in television, often in unexpected places like ordinary-looking exterior shots ...

The Golden Age , a series of photographs by Kevin Best recreating the effects of Dutch Master still life paintings. The series is featured ...

The good folks at Atlas Obscura have put together a lovely list of book gift ideas , including offbeat guidebooks, strange history, and cur...

Game Criticism Critical Distance Game Developers Click Nothing    » "On Auteurship in Games" Ludus Novus    » "Six Months of ...

Thanks to Maktaaq for turning me onto the witty, whimsical comics of cartoonist and illustrator Tom Gauld .

"Into the Zombie Underworld" , a September 2009 article from Men's Journal about the search for a young Haitian woman reported...

I've belatedly discovered that the entire second season of the hilarious Zelda parody webseries The Legend of Neil is out, and even bet...

The Gay Animal Kingdom , the 2006 SEED article about animal homosexuality that Illinois high school biology teacher Dan Delong was almost f...

In this New York Times feature from last winter, illustrator Christoph Niemann spots bits of New York in Legos .

It has been fascinating to follow the evolution of Amanita Design 's work from the original Samorost 1 through to their latest offering...

Game Developers Critical Smack    » "Stochastic Thoughts: The Trials of Hardcore PC Gaming" Design, Tech, Advertising Notebook Nud...

Small Worlds by David Shute. Technically a platformer. Less about running and jumping than the thrill of discovery, or un covering.

I just came across this New York Times article from July, which pins down and gives a name to a style that's been gradually gaining a lo...

A four-minute recording of the tank at Japan's Okinawa Churaumi Aquarium, the second largest in the world. PZ Myers of Pharyngula reco...

Tale of Tales makes non-linear, narrative, exploratory "art games" that largely cast off the trappings of traditional games (rule...

Machinarium was just released on Friday, and it's bigger, longer, and better than anything Amanita Design has done before. It's go...

Continuing in its line of artful, boundary-pushing not-quite-games, Tale of Tales this month released Fatale , an "interactive vignett...

After months of waiting, two new Gargoyles trade paperbacks were released last month. There are new books from both the main Gargoyles ser...

Stephen Fry and zoologist Mark Carwardine encountering a rare flightless parrot in New Zealand in Last Chance to See . It has been suggested...

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