Knuckle Sandwich Demo Explores Odd Jobs, Minigame-Based Combat, General Nonsense

Knuckle Sandwich, the super-serious RPG of holding down a crummy job while dealing with disappearances around town, now has a new demo out that will let players experience its minigame-based RPG combat and goofy sense of humor for themselves. Ever landed an attack in an RPG by petting dogs, dancing, guiding hands through a maze, […]

Cranleigh: Claire Hewitt explores the largest village in England on two wheels

The bustling village high street is a pretty mix of Tudor and Victorian red-brick gabled properties, housing an array of quirky gift shops and tearooms. It’s perfect for browsing before heading out to explore the country houses, footpaths and cycle routes that criss-cross the undulating woodland, rising to the Surrey Hills’ peak at Leith Hill. […]

Visual Out explores the inside of an old computer on March 15

In Visual Out, you play as a software program navigating the guts of a dying computer. But it’s nothing like the sleek neon lines of certain sci-fi interpretations of cyberspace. Instead, indie developer MadameBerry created her environment from the building blocks of obsolete tech — beige-grays and muted colors, blocks and glitches, and a low-res filter […]

All Female-Led Short Film ‘Pink Trailer’ Explores Girlhood in LA

You can see LA-based actress, writer, and filmmaker Mary Neely in the upcoming remake of Martha Coolidge’s Valley Girl, the 1983 film that stars baby-faced Nicolas Cage as a Hollywood punk who falls for Deborah Foreman’s Valley girl, despite disapproval from her straight-laced friends and family. We can see how Neely would be inspired by […]

All Our Asias Explores Race & Identity Through A Dying Father’s Memories

All Our Asias takes players on a journey through a dying man’s mind, getting to know him and the protagonist, Yuito, through the memories we see, the people we meet, and the moments we reflect upon. In doing so, we can help Yuito understand himself and his place in the world a little bit better, […]

In Other Waters Explores The Depths Of An Alien Ocean Through An AI’s Sensors

From Abzu to Subnautica, the ocean is often a place of vibrant mysteries. In Other Waters is no less mysterious, but takes a far more minimalist approach to its alien depths, presenting its shallows and wrecks and unknown species from the detached perspective of sensors and scanners. As the AI guidance systems for stranded xenobiologist […]

US military explores using sea life to spot threats

The sea is potentially full of undersea military threats, and that makes it daunting to detect them all using hardware. The scale and cost would be utterly impractical. DARPA, however, has a potential workaround: make sea life do the work. It recently launched a Persistent Aquatic Living Sensors program (yes, that shortens to PALS) that […]

‘Altered Carbon’ Featurette Explores the History of Immortality

Altered Carbon, Netflix’s big, weird new science fiction series, arrives this weekend, and in anticipation of this, the streaming service has released an in-depth Altered Carbon featurette that looks at the way the series treats life and death. Altered Carbon is, for the most part, a strange show. There’s a lot of rich, complex mythology in the series, and […]

The Mind’s Eclipse Explores Themes Of Grief And Loss On A Derelict Space Colony

You wake up and everyone on the colony is dead. What happened? How can you escape from there? And… who are you, anyway? This scenario hardly sounds innovative, but science-fiction adventure The Mind’s Eclipse still has a few surprises in store for you. In true adventure gaming fashion, you explore the derelict space station, solve […]

Artist Explores Romantic Roles in Kissing Photo Series

Madrid-born Marta Soul‘s photo series Idilios (the Spanish word doesn’t have an exact translation, but captures the sense of romance) depicts the artist dressed in various costumes, taking on several alter-egos, sharing a first kiss with different men in intimate, lush settings. From Soul’s artist statement: The series is constructed in an ideal context in order […]