Under siege

Alan Wen speaks to three concept artists about the varied and iterative processes that make up one of the most misunderstood crafts in the game industry

Setting the stage Tanya Combrinck discovers how artists build tone and weave emotion into narratives

“What are you doing here?” It is a sunny April morning in Sheikh Jarrah, East Jerusalem, and a Palestinian man is busy on the roof of a low-set house. Under the partial shadow of a tree, it looks like

Pondering existence with help from an assault rifle

Why has political change been so difficult to achieve in the Middle East, and why has the region reached this low point in its 100 years history? The people of the region have been systemically denied

Artificial intelligence used to mean something different. Or at least it did to me, back in the time of blocky, beige home computers and bold prognostications about the end of history—the 1990s. Video