Accurate yet imaginative audio is part of what creates truly immersive film and TV. Dialogue, music, and sound effects work synergistically to legitimize a sense of filmic reality, set mood, and ...

Jared is a writer, editor, and Communications Studies graduate who loves popular nerd culture (almost anything to do with Marvel, DC, Star Wars, or The Lord of the Rings) and the interactive ...

*This post by Julian Bleecker raises the question: can't you do "design fiction" about fully-functioning objects in the diegesis that are malevolent and make things worse? Of course you can, because ...

Did you ever play The Getaway on PlayStation 2? Despite the Cockney gangster protagonist controlling like a fridge, it blew me away at the time. To my dumb teenage brain, it seemed so realistic. Of ...

Sixty years ago the Brookhaven National Laboratory in Upton, NY held an open house. Visitors who toured the lab were treated to an interactive exhibit, a game titled Tennis for Two. The setup was ...

Brandon Sanderson has high praise for one of the best indie cult classics of all time, with Undertalebeing one of his top five games of all time when it comes to world-building in a video game.