Our first thought when we heard there was a Jane Austen MMO on Kickstarter was that this has to be a joke. But when we saw that the project was successfully funded for over a hundred-thousand dollars, we realized it was for real. Ever, Jane: The Virtual World of Jane Austen exists currently as an ea
FJORDS—a little-known game about the endless exploration of computer code and glistening cataracts with a hook shot—has been out for just over a month. It was a Fantastic Arcade selection and comes highly-recommended by the ambassador of indie games Brandon Boyer. Despite the accolades, Kyle Reimerg
Microsoft’s relationship with individual creators is notoriously dicey. The hefty corporate entity has taken heat for a number of its policies, such as the displacement of the erstwhile Xbox Indie Games service, and charging the little guy exorbitant fees, causing Phil Fish to infamously tweet “Not
Since this summer when Edward Snowden informed the world that the NSA is snooping on all of us, I’ve been a little more cautious about what I say online. More than a few instant messages that could be taken the wrong way have ended in a nervous joke about now being on the terrorist watch list. If y
A bot that buys random stuff from Amazon, Darius Kazemi’s Random Shopper was a stroke of demented genius. Zazemi programmed the automated software to crawl the pages of the online retailer and spend fifty dollars on physical media at random each month, which is ironic in all kinds of ways. On Black
