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Episodes we love: Artist Known
New to Endless Thread? Wooooo! We're revisiting some favorites from our archives to welcome you.
First up: The cover art for the 1976 paperback editi…
8 months, 1 week ago
Hidden Levels Ep. 6: Segagaga
The final episode of Hidden Levels explores the story of SEGA developer Tez Okano and the bizarre, meta-game he created: Segagaga.
Okano joined SEGA …
8 months, 2 weeks ago
Hidden Levels Ep. 5: Press B to Touch Grass
Video games are arguably the antithesis of nature; highly constructed worlds, synthetic, inorganic. If you grew up gaming, you may recall grown-ups t…
8 months, 2 weeks ago
Hidden Levels: Surgical Precision (Side Quest)
Dr. James "Butch" Rosser was a pioneer in minimally invasive surgery in the 1990s. When he credited his surgical skills to video games, people dismis…
8 months, 2 weeks ago
Hidden Levels Ep. 4: Machinima
Machinima — a portmanteau of “machine” and “cinema” — refers to movies filmed inside video games. The art form had a renaissance in the 1990s, and ma…
8 months, 3 weeks ago
Hidden Levels: Choose Your Player (Side Quest)
Today, Stef Sanjati is a creator on YouTube with over half a million subscribers. Her content mostly focuses on her two greatest loves — makeup and g…
8 months, 3 weeks ago
Hidden Levels Ep. 3: This Game Wants YOU
For decades, the U.S. Army has been on edge about recruitment, hitting its goals for a few years, only to miss them again. As part of their strategy …
8 months, 3 weeks ago
Hidden Levels Ep. 2: Stick It to 'Em
In this second episode of Hidden Levels, Amory traces the history of the humble-yet-genius joystick — from early 20th century aviation, to 1970s vide…
9 months ago
Hidden Levels Ep. 1: Mr. Boomshakalaka
Welcome to our all-new collaborative series, "Hidden Levels," in which we team up with 99% Invisible to explore how the world of video games has impa…
9 months ago
Announcing 'Hidden Levels': how the videogame world has changed the world beyond videogames
Have you ever jumped on something as you're moving through the real world, and heard that Mario bouncy sound in your head? Or maybe seen someone acti…
9 months ago