Developer Spry Fox is known for making brilliant, deep puzzle games with deceptively cutesy animals in them, and Road Not Taken looks like their most robust offering to date. Their area of expertise is not only in crafting ingenious puzzles, but also in experimenting with ways to make you feel emoti
We’ve written before about how the shooter genre is expanding into a wider variety of games that can do nicer things than shooting dudes in the head. We did a PBS Game/Show episode about that. Also, I collected interviews with the creators of games that use shooter mechanics in surprising ways, like
Cyberspace is portrayed in works of sci-fi as a beautiful virtual world where hackers and cyber-criminals vie for the security of databases. In real life, the intrigues of cyber warfare are less appealing, reduced to some guys hunched over their laptop. But with Plan X, the experimental wing at DARP