There’s something startling about seeing a document with the reverence of the US Constitution scrolling out of an everyday receipt printer. And this art project by Thibault Brevet bores into that patriotic nerve. Revealed at SXSW, the CONSTI2GO is a small electronic device that lets anyone reproduce
Something about developer 2bam’s depiction of Walter from The Big Lebowski getting his head blown off is distinctly Henri Matisse. The art direction in their game Heli Brawl, alternatively, Helibrawl, has a similar striking color palette and deformed abstract quality. But the other half of it—the fi
We already knew action-role-player Hyper Light Drifter was easy on the eyes. That was a done deal. But this new trailer really hammers the point home. In case you missed the Kickstarter campaign that blew up last year, this gorgeous showpiece of pixel art is also a game, and judging from the footag
Over at Top Tier Tactics, the prolific Xiant has been posting brief but useful player’s guides on how not to get smoked in Titanfall. (Never heard of it? Then you should read our review.) This should be a great resource for newbies because it’s a landmark game on a new system which will attract thos
We have comments by another so-called “indie” game auteur disavowing any interest in this whole indie-ness business. This time it’s Papers, Please creator Lucas Pope, who, speaking at the BAFTA Games Awards this week, said that there are no indie game-makers, just individuals and studios making smal
A quick googling of Dark Souls’ story will open a rabbit hole into the churning gut of lore. From the true identity of Sen, who we know of only through a lone kanji character on the side of a deathtrap, to the exodus of the otherworldly mushroom people, everything is laid bare. This exegesis result
OK, that’s presumptuous and headline-grabby and probably not true at all. College basketball is a fine, fine sport, especially this time a year. It’s just I thought our readership would potentially get more out of i09’s amazing March Madness bracket, which pits your favorite sci-fi characters agains
A gameophile’s dream come true (if that’s actually a thing), this aircraft-grade aluminum console plays NES and Famicom games and sure is sexy, but sexy in the way people fetishize sleekly designed electronic products, not, like, “sex” sexy. It’s called the Analogue Nt and is in essence a designer
Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind is pretty outstanding. But the problem is it’s static. Once you’ve seen it, you’ve seen it. However, the storytelling app IDNA—which takes inspiration from that famous anime of Miyazaki—is in a state of constant evolution. Now on Kickstarter, the episodic animated
LAZA KNITEZ!! is the sweet-looking deathmatch in deep space that implores you to wreck your friends’ spaceships, courtesy a collective in Copenhagen. (Just a disclaimer up front: one of the devs is our very own Tommy Rouse, whose name you might remember from our fantastic Samurai Gunn review, and wh
The Jeopardy! prodigy Arthur Chu, who bent the rules but did not break them, has had his win streak snapped at 11 games. A particularly lousy night answering trivia landed him in 3rd place in the final round, with little to no chance for shenanigans. Judging from the list of questions Chu got wrong,
The neon synapses of the game Darknet are your ticket to cyberspace, and pretty much the only way to get there. Developed for Oculus Rift, the cyber-punkish prototype took first prize in the VR Game Jam, and now it’s fleshed out into a full-fledged excursion into that idealized ‘80s vision of techno
As part of a celebration of tech in Philadelphia on April 4th, the city is hosting a colossal game of Tetris on the side of a staggering piece of architecture. The Cira Centre, which stretches 29 stories into the night sky, will be lit up with familiar falling tetriminos. Those famous squares, L-pi
On this, the 25th anniversary of the World Wide Web, the man who invented it is calling for a higher order of net neutrality. No, not Al Gore. Sir Tim Berners-Lee, who facilitated the flow of “a ‘web’ of notes with links between them,” has posted on Google’s blog, saying that his original intentions
I know that art is supposedly the ultimate expression of human emotions and whatnot, but THIS ARTBOT. Like clockwork, it creates and churns out abstract and frequently mesmerizing pixel art four times a day. It’s called Great Artist and it lives up to the moniker. This is truly impressive work for a
Edge is reporting that Sony is indeed developing an Oculus Rift competitor and plans on lifting the lid on it next Tuesday at Game Developers Conference in San Francisco. (We’ll be there with bells on.) This news comes to us by the same wings it usually does: anonymous developers blabbing about hot
At this point, everyone knows the story of Flappy Bird. How could you not? But the question that remained is: Why? Was it nervous breakdown? Political pressure? Twitter death-threats? Severe chastisement from old women who don’t much care for videogames? Rolling Stone has tracked down the shy, home
Music games and music creation tools tend to be a one way street, running straight forward from front to back. Each step of a sequencer lights up and then dims after the beat hits. And Guitar Hero is a forward scroll with no backsies. But Cadence is an intriguing music puzzle game and music generati
Shark Punch is one of those games where writing the words “Shark Punch” a couple of hundred times would suffice for the article. But I can’t do that, because editors. So, instead we’ll do a side-by-side of Shark Punch and the shark punching scene from the terribly awesome cult Italian gross-out Zomb
My Holy Nacho is an artwork based on a misunderstanding. Originally it was to be called Moholy-Nagy, but that got wrongly translated as My Holy Nacho in a noisy drinking establishment, and the title stuck. That gave the artists Jamie Allen and Bernhard Garnicnig an idea. They purchased a sculptural
Costume Quest was a sleeper of an RPG which traded in charm. And the second game in the series, announced yesterday, promises to be adorable too. And really how could it not be, with Tim Schafer and crew making a game about tikes trick-or-treating? This one is definitely filed under the “kids friend
Duelyst is spritely, tactical, and the sky is filled with cherry blossoms, pretty much the exact opposite of Diablo. That’s despite the fact that the project is headed by Keith Lee, lead producer of Diablo 3. You can just picture him at his desk at Blizzard staring off at some charts on loot drops w
Celestian Tales: Old North has some distinctive Suikoden energies going on, and it is nearly funded on Kickstarter after only a week. Put those two facts together and you arrive at the actuality that a whole lot of people still love their grand pastoral adventures about semi-authentic ancient Asian
