While delightful on their own terms, the icing on the cake of the Portal games has always been the songs by Jonathan Coulton that play over their end credits.

If you've got a few bucks and some time to burn this weekend, there's a bundle of worthwhile indie games that can help you pass the time for the affordable… Read the rest of the article: Pay what you want for these great indie games and play all weekend

In the charming, compulsively playable Japanese iOS game Nekoatsume (aka Cat Collector), you spend a lot of time acquiring virtual toys to attract a coterie of virtual cats to your… Read the rest of the article: Adorable toys for Nekoatsume, your favorite Japanese cat game

What if your enemy doesn't want to fight you?

Yes, advertisements on websites are annoying at best, but they're also a large and important part of how websites make money so that they can keep providing you with sweet,… Read the rest of the article: The ethical ad blocker

The Babymetal song "Gimme Chocolate!!" will be available as a bonus track for the soon-to-be-released Rock Band 4 if you preorder the game on Xbox One, which is important because:… Read the rest of the article: Babymetal is coming to Rock Band 4, so let's listen to Babymetal

Lightning bugs are a sort of magic when you're young, the kind that feels like it escaped from the halls of Hogwarts and somehow reclassified itself as science under the… Read the rest of the article: A game where you catch lightning bugs until the sun comes up

2016 is going to be a big year for Black Panther. Not only will the first black superhero finally make his way to the silver screen for the first time… Read the rest of the article: Ta-Nehisi Coates is writing Black Panther for Marvel Comics

"Keep your eyes on me."

You don't hear a lot about indie games from Japan. While a culture of low-budget, experimental video games created by small teams has flourished in the West over the last… Read the rest of the article: A closer look at the indie game scene in Japan

Adolescence is a weird, weird time in anyone's life, when it's easy to feel alienated from your peers, your family, even your own body. In Tentacles Growing Everywhere, an interactive… Read the rest of the article: Puberty is awkward, especially when you're a space alien

It is sometimes asked whether or not women wearing makeup is "deceitful" or "unfair" to heterosexual men—a way of "lying" about their beauty, rather than a personal aesthetic choice not… Read the rest of the article: Comics about men being 'deceived' by makeup

In this 12-frame animated gif, pixel artist Kirokaze imagines a small sliver of a rainy day in a world of "thought vigilance" and random ID checks, where a mysterious woman… Read the rest of the article: Beautiful pixel art of a cyberpunk coffeeshop in the rain

I've spent most of my life surrounded by bridges, living beside oceans and bays and rivers that required me to cross them daily. But I never really knew what the… Read the rest of the article: No one should ever let me build a bridge

A man leans with all his might against a giant black sphere planted in the center of his living room, but it won't budge. A woman stands on a shore,… Read the rest of the article: A wordless game about coming to terms with the past

Who can resist the allure of downloadable content? Not Feminist Frequency, which just released a tongue-in-cheek "DLC" mini-episode that examines how women (and their bodies) are often used as rewards… Read the rest of the article: Feminist Frequency now has DLC

Badblood reminds me a little bit of playing Manhunt in the woods as a kid, except for the part where I got brained with a hammer.

It's fun to design your own games, but here's why you should slow your roll.

Lizzie Bennet is not messing around. R.I.P., Mr. Darcy.

At first, it seems like just another day at the beach for just another seagull. Then you open your tiny yellow beak and sing the song of fire.