Gaming

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.

It's not an ancient computer reverse-engineered in plastic blocks, but this Lego-inspired spoof of Call of Duty: Black Ops is good fun. Video after the jump.

Now you can bicycle to the Internet (almost), on a networked stationary cycle that adds layers of gaming, interactivity, and social media to the spinning workout.

An animated reverse-history of communications media that goes from apps to web to video to clay to slate and chalk. In six seconds.

Mashing up machinima with real-life performers, refreshing the low-geek vernacular mode.

Ian Bogost's retrofuturist art game A Slow Year explores the traditions and aesthetic possibilities of the medium.

Thrash metal and testosterone-raked commands give way to twee chimes and happy laughs in the latest trailer for Atari's whimsical casual game, The Undergarden.

Kinect hacks are emerging at a rapid pace; it�s hard to recall a mass-market gadget so quickly adapted to new uses. As Bruce Sterling points out, �Microsoft accidentally invented a primo piece of art-installation hardware.� It's this kind of DIY innovation that keeps tech feral.