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Blade Symphony has everything to do with blades and almost nothing to do with symphonies, which is probably for the best since there aren’t many good games about orchestral compositions. What makes this blade game refreshing is that it’s a full-on, strategic, sword-fighting, well, um, fighting game.
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The problems with the nation’s school systems are wide and oft the subject of a good argument, so of course someone is making a satirical game about it. No Pineapple Left Behind is a charter school-funding sim from the devs who previously made Neocolonialism, a digital board game about devastating
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One thing we’re loving about this anti-surveillance facial prosthetic (read: mask) is that it stops scary-complex facial recognition systems like those in Chicago from spying on you. The other is that it reminds us of an Aphex Twin video, but that’s beside the point. And that point is fairly straigh
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A certain savvy minority of player will tell you that Shin Megami Tensei: Nocturne, re-released yesterday for PS3 on the PlayStation Store, is superlative, and those fine few individuals would be correct. What makes this old, brutal, cyberpunk-y, cell-shaded, ambiguous-moral-choice-making, demon-ba
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True to the spirit of the buggy JRPGs of ‘ol, where stumbling on a glitch could wreck your save file and obliterate 40 hours of effort, the JRPG Ar noSurge was planned to have an especially devious enemy that munched on and deleted your save file. This is coming from an interview with its dev in Fa
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The third episode of Kentucky Route Zero, the fine adventure game whose previous installments earned the 4th spot in our best-of-2013 list, has been stealth-released. They just kind of put it out there. What makes this series great is basically everything: the mature storytelling which is subtler a
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I know what you’re thinking. Google Maps Streetview would look so much cooler if your city was rendered all cyberpunk-y in 3D point cloud graphics. Well, this interactive web app by Callum Prentice does just that, turning any boring sidewalk scene into neon-colored polygons against grimy black night
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Godzilla has always been huge, but the Godzilla in the new Godzilla flick is frigging mammoth, and an un-thought-of consequence of that 55,000 tons of girth is a whole lot of urine production. According to the calculations of folks at Deep Sea News, a real mutant lizard of that size would micturate
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The prospect of Jeff Minter making a game for Oculus Rift is pretty terrifying, especially when said game is Minotaur Rescue, a psychotic swirl of ZX81 graphics and random goat blurts. Personally, I love the game; it remains one of my favorites on iOS, and that’s saying a lot. But I say terrifying b
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GameSim makes war videogames that look an awful lot like, well, just big rad war videogames. But they’re actually, according to the company, “virtual training simulators.” Edge has an interesting profile on them that touches on how the tech of fun videogames is increasingly being used for un-fun pur
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Because guns.
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Yeah, yeah. The Oculus Rift has the capacity to radically reshape the way we experience games and all. But what I’m really stoked about is using it to finally replay twenty-year-old Virtual Boy games as they were intended. That dream is coming true thanks to the VBjin-OVR Virtual Boy Emulator for th