In an industry that prizes fast-paced, time-pressured decision-making, reflective games invite players to meditate on life’s beauty, banality, and the spaces in between.
Víctor Navarro-Remesal | Jan 22
For 79 days, the nation devoured every telegraphed bulletin on the president’s slow decline, laying the groundwork for the compulsive media habits we have today.
Ainissa Ramirez | Dec 29, 2025
What looks like minimalism in Kiarostami is something else entirely: a method for holding the unseen in view.
Joan Copjec | Jul 25, 2025
Video is the most consequential medium of our time. So why do we still lack the tools to cite, dissect, and challenge it like we do with print?
Peter B. Kaufman | Jul 3, 2025
By inviting players to tackle real scientific problems, games can offer a hand in solving medicine’s toughest challenges.
Jeff Yoshimi | Jul 1, 2025
The rise of a “shadow gospel” reveals how deeply the language of demons and deliverance has shaped American politics.
Whitney Phillips & Mark Brockway | Apr 28, 2025
Behind every great console is a great legal fight.
Julien Mailland | Apr 15, 2025
What seemed at first like a simple game about waiting turned into a study in design focused on time, endurance, and audience experience.
Pippin Barr | Mar 31, 2025
Libertarian fantasies thrive on ecological collapse, profiting from the very destruction they helped to accelerate.
Jonas Staal | Jan 16, 2025
Selections from "Output," an anthology showcasing seven decades of English-language machine-generated texts, long predating ChatGPT.
Nick Montfort | Dec 16, 2024
