Watch the Titanic sink in real-time

When I was younger, I was fascinated by the story of the Titanic disaster. The deep ocean seemed like such a wild unexplored place and to know that there was essentially "buried treasure" there in the form of a grand sunken ship was just the stuff my young mind needed to be engaged in learning about this important part of maritime history.

Since then I've kept up with the Titanic expeditions (some led by James Cameron) and have always been incredibly interested in the finds they dig up there. Old rooms, artifacts, decaying ship parts, ocean floor sediment patterns, etc. You get the idea. The Titanic is not just a relic on the ocean floor but a doorway into ocean discovery itself. Maybe that's why I like it.

Anyway, there's this video here that shows the Titanic disaster in real-time along with CGI of the ship in water. It's a long video, about 2 hours, but it's a neat way to depict the events of that night on April 15, 1912 without going through the dramatic love story of films centered around the ship.

This very odd video game lets you play as anything you want

I'm not a huge gamer, but every once in a while, a video game comes through my feed that really makes me want to sit down at my computer and play for hours on end. At this very moment, it's a game that's coming to PS4 called Everything.

The video game is made by artist David O'Reilly who also made the conceptual video game in the movie Her (one of my favorite movies). In the game, as the title says, you can play as any thing you want. Meaning, if you want to play as a light pole, you can do that and walk around as a light pole. If you want to be a garbage can, you can do that too. If you want to be a building, you can do that too and make a bunch of building-friends. It's very weird, totally awesome sounding, and a total trip to see in action. Polygon got a sneak peek at it.

The goal of the game isn't quite clear yet, but the gameplay seems very pointless and fun! No release date just yet. Hopefully this will be a wider release than just the PS4.

Here's the beautiful video game trailer.