When I first loaded up Art Sqool, a quirky art game on Mac and Windows PC from indie designer Julian Glander, I would’ve never guessed that it’d have a profoundly emotional impact on me. However, its ...

The latent space has been compared to the Wild West in its lawlessness, but that metaphor disguises the true weirdness of its uncanny valleys. Faceless men struggle to be rendered out of fog, textured ...

A collector's edition of Clair Obscur was confiscated by Iraqi customs, which feared that the game tome might belong in a museum ...

Dragon Quest 7 Reimagined embraces the fact that it's a kid's RPG rather than trying to play adult.

Long before Wizards of the Coast senior art director Ovidio Cartagena and his team of artists conjured up cavernous depths populated with jade merfolk and fungal tyrants, he would ride the bus back ...

Art for tabletop games is often the most expensive part of development. Case in point is the success of Stronghold Games’ recent campaign for more Terraforming Mars, which, despite earning more than ...

At age 17, Ovidio Cartagena started his art career with The Lord of the Rings by creating a bad fan calendar. As he told me, everything about it was off: The days for the months were mislabeled and so ...