We love Overwatch. So we assembled 22 of our best writers and set them to work—a writer to jump into the skin (or robotic shell) of each character. The result is 22 odes. You can use the “Overwatch odes” tag to leaf through them all, or use the handy list at the bottom of this post. /// Soldier 76 i
Every year, Electronic Arts runs a simulation to predict the Super Bowl. This year, the Ravens were predicted to win, but our sports columnist ran his own simulation. The picture’s a bit more complicated.
In our monthly sports column, Abe Stein explores the mad, mad world of Olympic videogames. Were they always this crazy and what can they tell us about our current Olympic predicament?
Why is pressing buttons more faithful to baseball or golf than swinging a motion controller? Abe Stein explains why videogames need to keep their distance from real sports—at least for now.
Sports games can make you the MVP hero of your dreams. But professional sports aren’t based on athleticism alone; traits like sportsmanship and agreeableness have a large impact on a team’s success. New sports games like 2K11 and New Star Soccer consider these ulterior aspects to play, enabling the
Most sports stories play out the same way. Two baseball narratives, The Rookie and The Natural, offer a different understanding of the game by beginning at the end. Our sports columnist responds in-game.
The bifurcation of society into jocks and geeks was supposed to end with high school. So why do the two groups eye each other with mutual suspicion? Our sports columnist argues that the videogame community has wrongly ousted sports gamers.
An experimental videogame called Hokra invites comparisons to sports, but not only for its rules. For Abe Stein, sport is a feeling that runs deeper than the inner workings of games, existing in the events and dramas that we cause to emerge from them. So how do a few pixel squares pull that off, and
How would snow or Tebow factor into the upcoming Superbowl? In anticipation of this weekend’s game of all games, Abe Stein shares his findings on various simulation matches via Madden 2012.
In our new sports column, Abe Stein reminisces about playing Dr. J and Larry Bird Go One on One, how it compares to a modern sports videogame like NBA 2K12, and what is lost in designing for the realism of sports rather than the surrealism of games.
