Music is ineffable. Quoth Frank Zappa, “Writing about music is like dancing about architecture.” This is doubly true for talking about abstract music games like Sentris, the symphonic puzzle about sliding colorful blocks into centrical patterns and creating beats. Case in point, after listening to a
The brilliant game director Fumito Ueda has given us the beautiful, emotionally-challenging games Shadow of the Colossus and Ico. These are games that are held up as the pinnacle of expression in the medium, the brightest examples we have of art. With his unfinished project The Last Guardian and bre
We hear that The Legend of Zelda: A Link Between Worlds, out tomorrow, is pretty difficult. So difficult in fact that Nintendo included player-versus-player. What the crap? Could a punishing, confrontational direction be the way the series is moving? Not just yet. For now, the game allows you to se
Videogames are addictive, mood-altering, controller-smashing, grotesquely violent activities. That’s why we love them! But should we be concerned that gaming is fostering a legion of future sociopaths? Of course we should. But a study published by the University of Glasgow suggests that there is no
Tuesday, bitcoin—the online currency whose had a recent date with Congress—reached an all-time high, hitting a value of $900. Of course there are risks associated with the boom. It’s so volatile that it’s foolish to list its current asking price, which can swing by fifty percent in an afternoon. Ano
