Exploring Valve’s STEAM MACHINE and its potential impact on the future of PC gaming

Jony Ive once spent three weeks in northern Japan working with craftspeople in an area renowned for its metal working. He was fixated on titanium at the time, and its peculiarly challenging properties

THE BIGGEST GAMES ON THE WAY

Rounding up the rest of the month’s news from the world of LEGO bricks

How the pieces keep falling into place for the world’s leading synaesthetes

SMART Play is bringing technology to the brick in a way that the LEGO Group’s creatives have long dreamed of. After almost a decade of work in absolute secrecy, the innovators behind this unique new platform explain what went into its lengthy development, how they combined it with Star Wars and hint at their ambitious goals