video-games

Life & Culture

The kids are alright: why young people are protesting in virtual worlds

A new generation of activists are flocking to videogames such as Roblox to bypass censorship and maintain anonymity

Life & Culture

Nov 21, 2023

Laura Molloy

Art & Photography

Inside the dystopian vampire game making space for Black trans villains

Created by multifarious artist Danielle Brathwaite-Shirley, I CAN’T FOLLOW YOU ANYMORE is a video game exploring radicalism, false leaders, revolutionaries and how anyone can, inadvertently, become the aggressor

Art & Photography

Oct 31, 2023

Alim Kheraj

Art & Photography

Third World: The Bottom Dimension by Gabriel Massan

Sign up for an exclusive private view of Gabriel Massan’s new exhibition

Offered exclusively to Dazed Club members, the Brazilian artist is teaming up with the Serpentine to bring you a multi-dimensional, digital experience like no other – here’s how you can attend

Art & Photography

Sep 14, 2023

Life & Culture

Inside QuakeCon, America’s biggest LAN party where nerds and Doomers unite

Every year, thousands of gamers from across the world gather at the Gaylord Texan Resort to wire up their PCs, guzzle energy drinks, and blow each other up with virtual rockets

Life & Culture

Sep 01, 2023

DJ Wallh4x

Life & Culture

An ode to Neopets, the game that taught capitalism to kids

24 years after its original release, the 2000s virtual pet website is back – but will is stand the test of time?

Life & Culture

Jul 20, 2023

Daisy Jones

Life & Culture

Move over main character syndrome, it’s all about NPCs now

From right-wing slur to viral TikTok trend, people are pretending to be non-playable characters on social media – adding weight to the theory that life is just one big simulation

Life & Culture

Jul 14, 2023

Günseli Yalcinkaya

Music

An introduction to OG Nintendo super-composer Koji Kondo

From Super Mario Bros’ hyper-melodic 8-bit bleeps to the blissed-out diazepam-core of The Legend of Zelda, we select nine of the legend’s greatest soundtracks

Music

Jun 19, 2023

James Balmont

Art & Photography

LAN parties: these photos celebrate the golden age of gaming

merritt k’s new photo book LAN Party captures the unique craze of the early 2000s

Art & Photography

Nov 21, 2022

Louis Merrion

Art & Photography

LuYang, DOKU, Hungry Ghost. LuYang’s digital Reinc

Lu Yang’s digital reincarnations explore the ghost in the machine

LuYang NetiNeti is the Shanghai-based artist‘s first solo UK exhibition

Art & Photography

Sep 22, 2022

Günseli Yalcinkaya

Art & Photography

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Hans Ulrich Obrist on how video games are revolutionising the art world

As the new exhibition WORLDBUILDING: Gaming and Art in the Digital Age opens, curator Hans Ulrich Obrist discusses the growing role of video games in our everyday lives

Art & Photography

Jun 17, 2022

Günseli Yalcinkaya

Art & Photography

The good, the bad, and the glitchy: rating the galleries of the metaverse

NFT collectors are building their own showrooms, KAWS has taken over Fortnite, even Sotheby’s has launched a digital outpost – but which galleries are worth your time?

Art & Photography

Mar 07, 2022

Thom Waite

Science & Tech

Drag queens on Twitch are getting swatted

Drag queens on Twitch refuse to be silenced by hateful swattings

Streamers in the queer community are being doxxed online and getting visits from armed police – here, they share their traumatic experiences and explain how they’re resisting intimidation and violence

Science & Tech

Nov 24, 2021

Brit Dawson

Music