Yes, you can. Thoreau lovers are going to scoff at translating what was essentially an anti-technology screed (or at least a pro-nature screed) into a Playstation game and turning his beloved ...

This year, you can also play the video game. Thoreau’s two-year experiment at Walden Pond near Concord, Mass., is now the subject of an experimental, full-color 3-D computer game. A decade in ...

And now, the game — which not only re-creates Walden pond and the land on which Thoreau lived, but also, to some extent, the text’s spirit — is available to play. Though it’s still in ...

(Courtesy USC Game Innovation Lab) Have you ever wondered what it was like for Concord Transcendentalist writer Henry David Thoreau to live "deliberately" at Walden Pond? Starting Tuesday ...

I sat at my desk, dry and cozy. Walden is a simulation game, and you play as Henry David Thoreau. You might remember these names from high school: Thoreau was a philosopher and writer from 19th ...

Slate Plus members: Get your ad-free podcast feed. What would you expect from a video game inspired by Henry David Thoreau’s sojourn in the woods? In Walden, a game, players can contemplate the ...

What probably doesn’t cross your mind is "video game." In fact, sitting down and staring at a screen seems like the antithesis of what Thoreau was trying to accomplish. But not to game designer ...