scholarship A once-respected academic games conference has turned into such a dumpster fire that Steve Bannon is keynoting it now Cory Doctorow

Gadgets No programming skills? No design experience? GameGuru can still help create some bonkers video games Boing Boing's Shop

Studio Ghibli Still images from Studio Ghibli’s upcoming CGI film, Aya and the Witch Mark Frauenfelder

Entertainment New Studio Ghibli film coming this year from Hayao Miyazaki and son Goro Miyazaki David Pescovitz

haunted mansion A touring Bolivian orchestra is stranded in a German castle surrounded by 23 packs of wolves Thom Dunn

video games Paper Mario is coming to the Switch Mark Frauenfelder

b-side Studio Ghibli backgrounds you can use at your next online meeting Carla Sinclair

gothic More virtual tourism: Take a tour of beautiful Bran Castle in Romania Gareth Branwyn

art Studio Ghibli released magnificent free backgrounds for videoconferencing David Pescovitz

social distancing Idiots in the UK risk their community for the sake of socialization and bouncy castles Seamus Bellamy

anime Netflix's CASTLEVANIA show is so much better than it has any right to be Thom Dunn

music The bizarre 1976 Cat Stevens song and video, Banapple Gas Gareth Branwyn

Robert Anton Wilson Robert Anton Wilson's daughter Christina on the new edition of her father's book, Ishtar Rising Mark Frauenfelder

gaming February is "Snag-a-Normie" month in tabletop gaming Gareth Branwyn

art Art in the age of artifice Ferdinando Buscema

easter Spend Easter with John Waters at California's kitsch castle, The Madonna Inn Rusty Blazenhoff

housing Turning the ruins of a Medieval Italian village into a home and stone masonry school Gareth Branwyn

happy mutants McMansion Hell awards its annual prize for the best gingerbread McMansion! Cory Doctorow

music Vaughan Oliver — graphic designer for 4AD, Cocteau Twins, Pixies — RIP David Pescovitz

tabloids The Queen’s worst nightmare, Prince Andrew jailed, and Royal cosmetic surgery exposed in this week’s dubious tabloids Peter Sheridan