Games & Arts
- No Man's Sky Cosmos
- Trey Parker and Matt Stone Are Changing the Name of South Park to South America
- 'You Can See Everything' Review: Nathan Fielder's Doc About Elizabeth Holmes
- Tim Curry has died
- Nebula Sans
- Dolly Parton has died
- My Friend Aaron
- Don't Wordle
- The entire city of San Francisco as a video game
- The Art and Beauty of Blade Runner (2015)
- A Kantian Critique of "Sorry" by Justin Bieber
- The Lost Treasure of Sid Meier's Pirates
- Stop eating Lady Gaga's Oreos
- Seven books I keep close because I love them
- I won't read LLM authored fiction
- Quake – 30th Anniversary Update
- The title cards in Blade Runner are amazing
- There Will Come Soft Rains (1950) [pdf]
- Generative AI floods and dilutes the market for books
- Ron Gilbert started production on Thimbleweed Park 2
- Harmony Explained: Progress Towards a Scientific Theory of Music (2012)
- An Uncomplicated Man – A review of The Odyssey, directed by Christopher Nolan
- Em dashes are amazing
- Airport Simulator
- Why do AI company logos look like buttholes? (2025)
- CD sales growth outpaced vinyl in the first half of 2026
- Sam Neill has died
- Cyberpunk Comics, Manga and Graphic Novels
- 45% of enthusiasts 'seriously considering' leaving Sony for PC
- Bonnie Tyler has died
- Gun Mistakes in Fiction Writing: Handgun Edition
- Exapunks (2018)
- OpenRA
- GTA 6 will cost $80
- Beyond All Reason (Free Total Annihilation Inspired RTS)
- Calvin and Hobbes and the price of integrity
- TinyWind: A pixel pirate sailing game with real wind physics (380k+ kms sailed)
- Show HN: Putt.day a daily mini golf game
- How liminalism became the defining aesthetic
- French-Iranian author Marjane Satrapi, author of 'Persepolis', dies at 56
- 'Backrooms' Stuns with $81M Debut
- Nitpicking the shell history scene in 'Tron: Legacy'
- SimCity 3k in 4k (2025)
- The Melancholy of Slaying Monsters
- I Miss Terry Pratchett
- 1024000^2 Blocks, 2B2T Minecraft Server World Download Project, and Discoveries
- Halt and Catch Fire
- Accelerando (2005)
- Scorched Earth 2000 – Web
- Operation: Epic Furious
- They Live (1988) inspired Adblocker
- The greatest shot in television: James Burke had one chance to nail this scene (2024)
- Cartoon Network Flash Games
- Empty Screenings – Finds AMC movie screenings with few or no tickets sold
- New statue in London, attributed to Banksy, of a suited man, blinded by a flag
- Metal Gear Solid 2's source code has been leaked on 4chan
- NetHack 5.0.0
- Cursor Camp
- Isaac Asimov: The Last Question (1956)
- Rare concert recordings are landing on the Internet Archive
- 1D Chess
- Creating the Futurescape for the Fifth Element (2019)
- They're made out of meat (1991)
- Revision Demoparty 2026: Razor1911 [video]
- Show HN: Brutalist Concrete Laptop Stand (2024)
- Battle for Wesnoth: open-source, turn-based strategy game
- Book review: There Is No Antimemetics Division
- 'Backrooms' and the Rise of the Institutional Gothic
- Chuck Norris has died
- Hollywood Enters Oscars Weekend in Existential Crisis
- Lost Doctor Who episodes found
- Bubble Sorted Amen Break
- Rendezvous with Rama
- Science Fiction Is Dying. Long Live Post Sci-Fi?
- Show HN: Moongate – Ultima Online server emulator in .NET 10 with Lua scripting
- Games Workshop bans staff from using AI
- Ask HN: What did you read in 2025?
- Books by People – Defending Organic Literature in an AI World
- Why, as a responsible adult, SimCity 2000 hits differently
- The Culture novels as a dystopia
- Ozzy Osbourne has died
- Blender 4.5 LTS
- Most people who buy games on Steam never play them
- 108B Pixel Scan of Johannes Vermeer's Girl with a Pearl Earring
- Uncovering the mechanics of The Games: Winter Challenge
- Hunt for Red October 1990 (2016)
- The End of Sierra as We Knew It, Part 1: The Acquisition
- Blender-made movie Flow takes Oscar
- EA Open Sources Command and Conquer: Red Alert, along with other games
- Ask HN: Recommend resources that helped your game dev journey?
- Half-Life
- Diablo hackers uncovered a speedrun scandal
- OpenRA – Classic strategy games rebuilt for the modern era
- Dragonsweeper — A minesweeper game that requires observation
- “The Traitors”, a reality TV show, offers a useful economics lesson
- David Lynch has died
- Disco Elysium Explorer
- How did they make cars fall apart in old movies (2017)
- Railroad Tycoon II
- Before Squid Game, there was Battle Royale
- Show HN: Factorio Blueprint Visualizer
- Stimulation Clicker
- Who killed the rave?
- OnlyFangs has made 'World of Warcraft' into Twitch's best soap opera
- Books I Loved Reading in 2024
- The GTA III port for the Dreamcast has been released
- Dungeons and Dragons rolls the dice with new rules about identity
- Casual Viewing – Why Netflix looks like that
- Scale Model of Boeing 777-300ER, Made from Manila Folders
- Where is James Bond? Trapped in an ugly stalemate with Amazon
- ‘Star Trek: Discovery’ Officially Erased From Canon
- Ask HN: What is the best thing you read in 2024?
- Decoding the telephony signals in Pink Floyd's 'The Wall'
- Show HN: Eonfall – A new third-person co-op action game built for the web
- Ghost artists on Spotify
- Gukesh becomes the youngest chess world champion in history
- Scrabble star wins Spanish world title despite not speaking Spanish
- We all took the DVD boom era for granted
- OpenTTD is an open source simulation game based upon Transport Tycoon Deluxe
- The story of Rogue
- AI poetry is indistinguishable from human poetry and is rated more favorably
- Blizzard's pulling of Warcraft I and II tests GOG's new Preservation Program
- Lessons I learned working at an art gallery
- Every board game rulebook is awful [pdf]
- Star Citizen crowdfunding passes $750M
- Ask HN: What were the best books you read this year?
- List of books that will induce a mindfuck
- Murderbot, she wrote
- Surrealism, cafes and lots of cats: why Japanese fiction is booming
- What made Dostoevsky's work immortal
- Epic Allows Internet Archive to Distribute Unreal and Unreal Tournament Forever
- Tiny Glade 'built' its way to >600k sold in a month
- Valve developers discuss why Half Life 2: Episode 3 was abandoned
- Museum of Bad Art
- Half-Life 2: 20th Anniversary Update
- An oral history of "We Built This City," the worst song of all time (2016)
- The Impact of Jungle Music in 90s Video Game Development
- Every arthouse buff you know is pirating films
- Grim Fandango
- Stabilizing the Obra Dinn 1-bit dithering process (2017)
- Switch 2 will be backwards compatible with Switch
- What should a logo for NeXT look like? (1986)
- Quincy Jones has died
- The decline of the working musician
- The guy who gave a negative review to Battlezone 98 Redux after playing 8k hours
- Writing in Pictures: Richard Scarry and the art of children's literature
- Sci-fi books that you may never have heard of, but definitely should read
- A Chopin waltz unearthed after nearly 200 years
- How 'Factorio' seduced Silicon Valley and me
- Show HN: 2048 turned 10 this year, I built an updated version to celebrate
- Crokinole
- All possible plots by major authors (2020)
- World conker champion found with steel chestnut, cleared of cheating
- Studios: Please don't spoil the movie we are seated to see
- Dookie Demastered
- Ask HN: What book had a big impact on you as a child or teenager?
- Ask HN: What's the "best" book you've ever read?
- Most gamers prefer single-player games
- Who Pays for the Arts?
- I made a game you can play without anyone knowing (no visuals/sound)
- Boris Vallejo and the pixel art of the demoscene
- Megalopolis is baffling and plainly nuts but worth it
- Comedy Theory (2022)
- The ambition of Microsoft Flight Simulator 2024
- Anime is eating the world
- What, Me Worry? The Art and Humor of Mad Magazine
- Ultra high-resolution image of The Night Watch (2022)
- Leonard Cohen: The Man Who Saw the Angels Fall
- Fable at 20: a uniquely British video game with a complex legacy
- Quote Origin: I had exactly four seconds and Google had told me it wasn’t enough
- Why to Not Write a Book
- D&D is Anti-Medieval
- They don't make readers like they used to
- The quest for a Wiki-less game
- James Earl Jones has died
- Hallelujah, Leonard Cohen, and a Pulitzer Prize-winning writer's suicide
- Accelerando (2005)
- Interviewing Tim Sweeney and Neal Stephenson
- Show HN: Defrag the Game
- We built the city of Colombo in Cities:Skylines
- Why A.I. Isn't Going to Make Art
- Love them or hate them, this couple reign in Russian literature
- SurrealEngine: Open-source reimplementation of Unreal Engine with playable UT99
- Ask HN: Which movies did you watch multiple times?
- How I won $2,750 using JavaScript, AI, and a can of WD-40
- There Is No Antimemetics Division (2018)
- Interstellar movie black hole implemented with Einstein's equations in C++
- How long does music stardom last? A statistical analysis
- Can kids master the video games their parents loved?
- Poetry was an official Olympic event
- Andy Warhol's lost Amiga art found
- How the music industry learned to love piracy
- Can reading make you happier? (2015)
- Braid: Anniversary Edition "sold like dog s***", says creator Jonathan Blow
- The effect of CRTs on pixel art
- The lie of music discovery algorithms
- Missing Henry VIII portrait found after random X post
- Tritone Substitutions
- The secret of Minecraft (2014)
- Why Adventure Games Suck (1989)
- Making Elizabethan plays understandable and fun to read
- Show HN: Resurrecting a dead Dune RTS game
- Introduction to Calvin and Hobbes: Sunday Pages 1985-1995 (2001)
- The NYT book review is everything book criticism shouldn't be
- Starcraft (A History in Two Acts)
- Watching "Grizzly Man" with a bear biologist
- The case for not sanitising fairy tales
- Donald Sutherland has died
- Building SimCity: How to put the world in a machine
- Ted Chiang has won the PEN/Faulkner Foundation's short story prize
- Show HN: Probabilistic Tic-Tac-Toe
- Why are debut novels failing to launch?
- Secret Hand Gestures in Paintings (2019)
- Save Team Fortress 2 (#savetf2)
- Don't be terrified of Pale Fire
- The Moral Economy of the Shire
- Standard Ebooks' 1,000th title: Ulysses
- After Furiosa flops, Hollywood could be facing a biblically disastrous summer
- Why did Tom Lehrer swap fame for obscurity?
- Windows 10 wallpaper was physically built and photographed (2015)
- Riven
- I organized a 20-acre game of Capture the Flag
- Steve Albini has died
- Hackers discover how to reprogram NES Tetris from within the game
- Selling 'Ghost in the Shell'
- Helldivers 2 PSN account linking update will not be moving forward
- A book Stanley Kubrick didn’t want anyone to read is being published
- Liu Cixin's War of the Worlds (2019)
- Keep Out – WebGL Game
- I'm creating PBR Textures and 3D models since 2018 and sharing them for free
- The Rise and Fall of the LAN Party
- I now lack the juice to fuel the bluster to conceal that I am a simpleton
- When do we stop finding new music?
- No one buys books
- Equinox.space
- Cindy Lee might be the future of music
- The Curse of Monkey Island
- Everything we can't describe in music
- Descent 3 Source Code
- Ask HN: What movies changed your perception of reality or life?
- AI made these movies sharper – critics say it ruined them
- Descent: A classic 3-D first-person shooter (2012)
- One man's artistic wonderland, created in rental, gets protected status
- It's Dante's hell – we're just living in it
- It's not what the world needs right now
- She slept with a violin on her pillow
- Mario meets Pareto
- Reading more Ursula Le Guin (2019)
- Dark Star at 50: How a micro-budget student film changed sci-fi forever
- Los Alamos Chess
- Bypassing Denuvo in Hogwarts Legacy
- Show HN: Truncate, a word-based strategy game
- Song lyrics getting simpler, more repetitive, angry and self-obsessed – study
- Edgar, build a Dyson swarm
- Nobody Wants to Buy the Future: Why Science Fiction Literature Is Vanishing
- Chess puzzle, but you are what you capture
- Martin Scorsese's secret life as an obsessive VHS archivist
- Barcelona’s Sagrada Familia will be completed in 2026
- Fans quitting Spotify to save their love of music (2022)
- Vernor Vinge has died
- Shattered Pixel Dungeon is an open-source traditional roguelike dungeon crawler
- A Surprising Advantage of Vinyl (2011)
- "3 Body Problem" Is a Rare Species of Sci-Fi Epic
- Berlin's techno scene added to Unesco intangible cultural heritage list
- The Good Soldier Švejk (2018)
- Flowers for Algernon (1965) [pdf]
- Akira Toriyama has died
- Gabriel García Márquez: Sons publish novel that late author wanted destroyed
- Miles Davis and the recording of Kind of Blue
- Motion blur all the way down (2022)
- Wintergatan Marble Machine (2016) [video]
- Dune: Part Two Is the Best Sci-Fi Film of the Decade
- Apple is turning William Gibson's Neuromancer into a TV series
- Shave and a Haircut
- "Dune" and the delicate art of making fictional languages
- Dracula's Biggest Mistake
- Quantifying the diva-ness of national anthem performances
- Power Metal: is it really about dragons? (2018)
- An introduction to the theory and practice of poker (2020)
- Disconnecting the Playstation 5 from Internet installs DVD games faster
- Happy Birthday Lemmings
- Mornington Crescent
- The Empire Strikes Back First Draft by Leigh Brackett (1978) [pdf]
- Permutation City (1994)
- Neal Stephenson was prescient about our AI age
- Full $71M breakdown for The Village by M. Night Shyamalan (2003) [pdf]
- Show HN: The classic Minesweeper on an irregular grid
- Pinball Map: Crowd-sourced worldwide map of public pinball machines
- Rivers Cuomo is an active developer on GitHub
- 'I should not have written 'A Clockwork Orange''
- Infinite Craft
- The Far Side – By Gary Larson
- There Is No Planet B (For Worldbuilding)
- Show HN: Pong Wars
- Why Is Game Writing So Terrible? (2021)
- Dungeons and Dragons turns 50 today
- I realized chess pieces can be redesigned to be geometric attack directions
- Which shows got their finale right, and which didn't?
- Why is everything so ugly?
- I believe bestselling author Mark Dawson is a serial plagiarist
- We need technology that is less immersive, not more
- I Found David Lynch's Lost 'Dune II' Script
- Drawing.garden
- Investigating Rock Radio with Rick Beato
- Turing Complete is a game about computer science
- AI Is Already Killing Books
- Comics I Loved in 2023
- How Australia’s ‘Bluey’ conquered children’s entertainment
- Nestflix
- 1D Pac-Man
- After 34 years, someone beat Tetris [video]
- Notation Must Die: The Battle for How We Read Music [video]
- Liero – Sling'n'shoot Worms Game
- Disney CEO Bob Iger says company's movies have been too focused on messaging
- Putting the "J" in the RPG, Part 3: Playing Final Fantasy VII
- They want you to forget what a film looks like
- Mindustry: Open-source automation tower defense game
- The Final Speech from The Great Dictator (1940)
- Sci-Fi Interfaces: Hackers
- E3 Is Officially Dead
- John Carmack and John Romero reunited to talk DOOM on its 30th Anniversary
- Baldur's Gate 3 Wins Game of the Year at the Game Awards
- How Many Hobbits? A Demographic Analysis of Middle Earth
- A lost X-Files song
- Ask HN: Books you read in 2023 and recommend for 2024?
- Half-Life: 25th Anniversary Documentary [video]
- RPG Engine for the Nintendo 64
- Wealth Systems in RPGs
- No-Bullshit Games
- Titled Tuesday Cheating
- The Periodic Table of Tools
- They're Made Out of Meat (1991)
- New Wave Sci-Fi: 75 Best Novels of 1964–1983
- Unciv
- Why does the moon change size when you snipe it in GTA?
- Super Mario RPG is an endearing, perplexing relic
- The Death Star and the Final Trench Run (2017)
- The Cassette-Tape Revolution
- Awesome Engineering Games
- Zero-k: A libre sci-fi RTS game, with an economy based on metal and energy
- Death by AI – a free Jackbox style party game. AI judges your plans to survive
- Half-Life 25th Anniversary Update
- Blender 16yo winner of UK young animator of the year
- The Best Timed Shot in TV History (Probably)
- Ask HN: What are you reading these days?
- No Man's Sky just keeps getting better
- Quake Brutalist Jam II
- Northlight technology in Alan Wake 2