Phrases like "making video games for money" and "thesis" are increasingly unnerving these days, even moreso when paired.

The Negatives, seven girls who successfully Kickstarted their summer camp game demo to the tune of over $31,000, just released The Hole Story, a funny fantasy game about digging your way to the truth.

The New York Hall of Science's new Connected Worlds exhibit is a series of six interactive ecosystems that spreads across the walls of its Great Hall, united by a 3000… Read the rest of the article: Watch how this beautiful game exhibit helps kids figure out ecosystems

Maquisard is a lovely little game of snooping and subversion in a fancy old hotel, inspired by the aesthetic of the grand Wes Anderson film

With its smokelike terrain, salmon sun and blood-flecked landscapes, DOLLY is a visually-striking platformer that seems to take place inside a woman's head.

What mysterious role does this throbbing, singing potato fulfill in your work environment?

You're a cute little droid being told by a beautiful computer to perform increasingly difficult, strangely-specific tasks. Each of them requires attention to detail, and you'll be deactivated if you… Read the rest of the article: Play it now: Operations Calibration Droid (OCD)

I'm kind of surprised at myself for being drawn to this video of a real-life hedgehog lumbering cutely through a little handmade Green Hill Zone. I thought Sonic fans had put me off hedgehogs.

The charming visual language and textured, 90s web-era sounds of Emotica make it delightful to create and share your own game spaces made entirely out of emoji.

In BooFlag, just switch on your computer mic and boo at the Confederate flag. As you do, it will slowly be lowered, and eventually it will catch on fire and… Read the rest of the article: Boo at the Confederate flag til it burns. It'll probably make you feel better

The artist's 10 year-old daughter builds worlds and expresses her attitude to possibility in the infinitely-playful Minecraft universe.

Let's have a deep chat about the practical feasibility of getting our childhoods back.

This is a really clever little tie-in game, but it makes me feel really bad.

Annual video game press conferences are often an assault on the senses, and on taste. We found the cool stuff for you.

Clash of Clans is one of the most popular and financially-successful mobile games of all time—it might have earned $1.8bn in 2014 alone. But with stats showing few people actually make purchases in free-to-play games, how do games like these get their hooks into big-spending "whales"?

Bloxels lets kids design playable spaces using physical blocks on a grid—that can then be captured by a tablet device and translated into a real digital game. The creator, Pixel… Read the rest of the article: Kids can build their own games with this nifty block toy

Creativity and Doom have gone hand in hand for decades—the first user-created level appeared in 1994—and now the new game will come with fresh, easy-to-use mod tools.

Surviving family dinners can feel like a gauntlet at the best of times, especially when it's your potential in-laws.

One year after the puzzling and provocative Threes cloning controversy—where free clones ultimately reached many more players than the premium original—the developers are offering a new free, ad-supported version of the game.

The first European Games are kicking off in Baku, Azerbaijan. This tiny web browser game stands in protest, highlighting the unlawful detention of political prisoners in the country.