Watch Dogs’ multiplayer critiques our always-connected world
Who hacks the hack dogs?
James Dilks
Oniken blasts out of Brazil and the 90s
Making something new in the retro field.
Desktop Dungeons brings the metagame full circle
Do we always need progress?
The future of videogames may be occurring in an old mail office in London
What can we learn from the interactive theater phenomenon?
Struggling to breathe in a real version of the terrifying space sim Capsule
In space, no one will hear you breathe.
What would happen if game developers and journalists swapped jobs?
Wonder no more. For 48 hours last weekend, they did.
At the Eurogamer Expo, making games accessible for disabled gamers
The story of Special Effect, the British charity whose mission is to help every gamer play
More Imagination, Not Less
Consoles and PCs have followed Moore’s Law of increasing complexity and capacity. But with more lifelike games, will there be any imaginative gaps left for players to fill?
Patrick Buckland
Patrick Buckland’s interest in games started young; as a teenager he made games on the Apple II and a cartridge-based console. Now CEO of Stainless Games, developing Carmageddon: Reincarnation, Buckland relates ancestral lunacy, how P.E. teachers are Nazis, and his obsession with Apollo.
A Numerological Approach to the Pains of Drop7
1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7. What do the numbers of iOS classic Drop7 mean. We take a stab a decoding the symbols.
UK festival GameCity asks "What’s the point of videogames?," struggles to reach a definitive answer.
A panel of politicians, cultural commentators, industry figures and (non-gaming) journalists discussed “What’s the point of videogames?” for just over an hour at London’s British Film Institute (BFI) on Wednesday evening. Such an open question might have relegated the debate itself topointlessness,
Possession of the Ball
How are sports created in our own image? When the global game of soccer is digitally transformed into an international hit in FIFA, the ball finds itself caught between disparate communities, economies, and goals. James Dilks charts its journey from the western coast of Africa to the cables of the F
The Global Game Project: Brazil
The Duck, Duck, Goose model of kids games emerges in the latest entry into The Global Games Project. James Dilks explains how a South American rodent provides the basis to a simple Brazillian amusement.
"Why Can’t We Just Have Indie Games?"
We catch up with Phil Fish, creator of the highly anticipated adventure game Fez, at GameCity and get honest about player reactions, corporate sponsors, and the power of music.
Naming Rights
James Dilks examines the trend of band and game names stretching beyond the realm of the English language, and explains why the name of indie hit VVVVVV makes perfect sense.
Review: Forget-Me-Not
A tiny, psychedelic arcade game traces fondly through history and time. James Dilks reviews the iOS runaway hit Forget-Me-Not.