Gaming

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.

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.