Gaming

Reviewing Reality is Broken, Jane McGonigal's manifesto of gaming for a better world, Ian Bogost realizes that he likes the messy, repellent, stunning reality we've got.

Julian Dibbell says that while Second Life seems to have failed to live up to its early promise, it has helped further the baked in gamification of life online and off.

While most of us use one side of the brain to play chess, the minds of masters of the game solve moves by parallel processing.

A breakneck desktop adventure offers an uncanny sense of what daily life is like for a tech blogger. Video after the jump.

Gaming culture meets graffiti meets vernacular video insanity. Video after the jump.

A web-based game simply and elegantly tests Julian Assange's theory of the power of networked secrecy.

Freddie Wong's deft short captures the hands-high stance, the angular gait, and the ragdoll morbidity of the first-person shooter genre. Video after the jump.

Minecraft isn't just PC gamings' trendiest new box of 8-bit building blocks. It's also a solipsist's god sim... with all of the loneliness and pathos that implies.

An Australian company's vivid new motion-capture technique not only enlivens cut scenes, but opens up a whole new range of challenges in the gameplay itself.

The music sequencer Isle of Tune is like a simple little city sim game�for a magical land of loopy, tuneful fancy.