Both art project and high-score-grabbing arcade game, 577Rhea by Andre Sier strikes a balance you wouldn’t expect. It’s Astroids if Astroids was meant to be aesthetically challenging, with flickering neon green octagons, humming tonal sounds, and glitched-out spin art. But it’s also pretty much Astr
We knew that somewhere, someway we’d have a good reason to fire up our PlayStation 4s again, and we were right, because Resogun is getting more content. It should be noted that we have no idea when, but let’s hope it’s soon, as we’re currently in the midst of a next-gen gaming drought the size of th
There is a growing problem among teenagers, if the website for this Immersion biometric ear-band is to be believed. (Hint: it shouldn’t be.) It seems millions of upper-middle-class, unbearably Caucasian male teens who use copious amounts of hairspray cannot control their gamer rage. But have no fear
The original La-Mulana was super-difficult doujin-ware made by a group of hobbyists from Osaka in 2006. It was never intended for mass consumption, a lovingly made yet punishingly hard throwback to the days of retro gaming, when games were abstruse, and tip-lines and the playground were a poor-man’s
By now you’ve surely heard that Nintendo is bleeding money, and that there’s pressure from investors for them to push their stable of properties—which include Mario, Yoshi, Diddy Kong, and Pikachu—to mobile phones. Historically speaking, this is something Nintendo doesn’t do. Nintendo has always bee
This year, the annual Games for Change festival will be joining the Tribeca Film Festival in lower Manhattan, April 22nd through 24th. You may know Games for Change as the NYC non-profit that promotes do-good games, including small but incredibly important titles, such as Cart Life and Papers, Pleas
For screwy malfunctions that break games in unthinkable ways, glitches are pretty inspirational. That’s why I’m mighty impressed by this glitch in Majora’s Mask, discovered by YouTuber user Indextic, which allows for fast travel to any region in Hyrule from the outset of the game. If you think about
The nominations for the Academy Awards were announced this morning, and by some glaring oversight Pacific Rim failed to receive a nod in the Best Visual Effects category. (However, Gravity, The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug, Star Trek: Into Darkness, and Iron Man 3 did.) The film is about ferociou
There are rumblings out of Klei Entertainment about their slick-looking spy game. Specifically, that the game once known as Incognita but is now being called Invisible Inc. is making progress, entering alpha phase. Klei rumblings, unlike volcanic rumblings, are the best kind of rumblings, because th
The fourth installment of the The Sims is coming out in fall, which will undoubtedly bring the number of Sims games sold to a grand total of a gazillion copies. It’s already the best-selling game on PC of all-time, and we were wondering what makes a simulation about the ins-and-outs of everyday life
We love how Titanfall is plopping down some towering robots into the standard tactical-cooperative-shooter. But how will the average Battlefield 4 devotee who lives and breathes through the barrel of an AR-15 feel about it? Well, that’s what the guys at Respawn Entertainment want to know, as they ha
A Reddit user has recreated in Animal Crossing: New Leaf the “Red Room” from the famous scene from the first season of Twin Peaks, which is arguably David Lynch’s most vivid and surreal two minutes of tape. (Personally I’d go with the Rabbits scene from Inland Empire, but I’m in the minority.) This
The new and improved Oculus Rift was all the rage at CES, but there are still some kinks. In an interview with PC Gamer, Oculus founder Palmer Luckey tackled our biggest concerns, such as this one: when will this thing look less stupid and not make me motion-sick so I can use it for business travel?
Yesterday Hideo Kojima tweeted a few pictures showing off Metal Gear Solid 5’s second-screen functionality, which puts to use that expensive tablet you bought. It displays the map from the game, and it also shows Snake’s “iDroid,” which apparently is his celly, so you don’t have to pull up a menu wh
Final Fantasy Tactics designer Yasumi Matsuno is Kickstarting the strategy game Unsung Story: Tale of the Guardians for mobiles, which is great because he’s Yasumi Matsuno and he makes really great strategy games, like Final Fantasy Tactics and Crimson Shroud. But it’s also great because of others o
Net neutrality was a good idea while it lasted. Up until Tuesday, service providers couldn’t gouge you, the consumer, for burning through high-bandwidth on services like Netflix and online games, because all things on the Internet were considered equal. This kept competition fair and costs low. But
Can the sequel to a 2,000-year-old game resuscitate the OUYA, the hackable system the Internet willed into existence? You’d think not, but then again there’s no bigger name in games than, uh… chess? Ludeme Games is either really good at playing it straight or they’re really serious about this whole
Catalonia is a historic region in Spain that was settled on the Mediterranean in ancient times. It’s also the subject of this wild virtual-reality documentary, which isn’t recommended for those who fear free-falling through midair. The logistics of the 360 Catalonia Experience are tricky, but the p
The news that SimCity is receiving an update, so that you can play it offline, has been seen as a victory for the Internet. But is it really? When the game launched last year, always being connected was required. Opponents of digital-rights management cried foul. There was pretty much a circus. Many
Modern console features that pop up while you play are unbearable, or at least that’s what Jon Blow thinks. This is the takeaway from the brain behind Braid’s Twitter feed, which recently erupted with a flurry of posts like this one: And this one: You’re probably thinking that you can conveniently t
There’s a new trailer for Dark Souls 2—which is coming sometime in early March, depending on which continent you hail from—and that can only mean one thing: deadly twenty-foot-tall sentries with patina trampling on disfigured human-centipedes. There’s also some old woman wheezing about curses and ba
Just weeks after 2K said they’re burying the MLB 2K franchise, we have an announcement for a new baseball videogame, and it’s a name children of the ‘80s might have nostalgic feelings for: RBI Baseball. What was debatably the best title of the NES era that involved smacking a red-laced ball over the
The only reason I can figure Kim Swift is releasing Soul Fjord on January 28th as an OUYA timed-exclusive is because the little cuboid console fondly reminds her of the Portal cube. That, or money. In either case, we have the first footage of it in action, which you can scope at the 1:15 minute mark
In the lineage of all things Xeno, first came Xenogears, then came Xenosaga, then Xenoblade, and then this art-book, Xenogears Perfect Works, which hopefully captures the series mega-complex-Freudian-psychosexual-reincarnation history of Catholicism story, to go along with drawings of robots. The bo
