The cryptocurrency-adjacent digital art format has driven millions of dollars in sales for musicians in recent days. Is it a force for democratizing the industry or just more hype? On February 28, Grimes auctioned off […]
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Why Do People Love Games?
Games are a controlled form of freedom. Our brains grab onto them because they are structures that exist to be avoided. Games occupy a strange place in our cultural consciousness. Nearly everyone has played a […]
How Role-Playing can Transform our Communities
When we imagine ourselves becoming someone else, we tap into our latent potential as human beings and as a community. When the group agrees to “pretend to believe” in these transformations, we create space in […]
Fear and Loathing in Animal Crossing
It’s hard to believe that such a pure, wholesome game could become an object of dread. “Where have you been all this time?” A wave of guilt washed over me as I read these words […]
The History of the Gaming Industry in One Chart
Research from Pelham Smithers shows that while the tidal wave of gaming has only continued to swell, the driving factors have shifted over the course of gaming history. At first, there was Atari. Early prototypes […]
What’s The Future Of Gaming?
Two of the U.K.’s leading gaming professors – Dr Jethro Shell and Dr Edward Powley – are giving us an exclusive insight into what we can expect next from the industry. Both doctors believe that […]
The Symbolism of Graffiti
For the sake of choosing somewhere current to start, I thought we could begin looking at why it is natural to see graffiti emerge as a component of protest, which we have been seeing quite […]
In Defense Of Substack
Matt Taibbi argues that Substack detractors are mourning the good old days of gatekeeping and credential-worship UCLA professor Sarah Roberts, co-leader of something called the UCLA Center for Critical Internet Inquiry — media critics whose […]
2021 Underwater Photographers of the Year
The winners of this year’s Underwater Photographer of the Year contest have been announced. Prizes and commendations were handed out in categories including Wide Angle, Macro, Wrecks, Behavior, Portrait, Black and White, Compact, Up and […]