This behind-the-scenes look at Papers, Please proves that we need a director’s cut
The baggage search is reason enough.
Jason Johnson
Cuphead for Xbox echoes the Golden age of Disney animation
Classic animation buffs, this game is all you.
Shadowmatic is the iPhone game that Giorgio de Chirico would have made
Relive your childhood fear of shadows all over again.
Sid Meier fears strategy games are going the way of the flight simulator
dials on top of dials on top of dials
It takes $250 per week and five iPads to be number one at Clash of Clans
And you thought heroin was bad.
You have about 60 minutes left to get our game of the year on the cheap
Get it before it’s gone (home)!
The average Resident Evil player is 40, and Capcom doesn’t like old guys
No bald jokes, promise.
No one will use the Steambox controller to play DOTA, according to a random guy on the internet
Controllers versus keyboards and mice. FIGHT!
Still whimsical as ever, but the new Kirby title has Smash Bros. mode
Nothing says bursting over with playfully fanciful behavior like a new Kirby
Surprisingly, Jonathan Blow doesn’t hate landscape designers
The importance of a well-placed tree
Dark Souls 2 won’t be coming to mobiles, and here’s why that’s bad for games.
Mobiles can do serious games too, you know?
This Minecraft construction reminds us of Studio Ghibli, and that’s a good thing
who knew Miyazaki played Minecraft
Dots dev are good at connecting lovers as well as dots
Here’s something nice for the holidays. The guys at We Play Dots—who made Dots, the best game on iPhone about, you guessed it, dots—have helped a couple get engaged. When Shawn, a fan of the game, emailed the team to ask them to assist him in proposing to his girl Cassie, the developer created a spe
Carols are even more festive when a Commodore 64 is singing them
Nothing will get you in the holiday spirit faster than an iMac, a Commodore 64, a ZX Spectrum, and a Mega Drive singing a carol. Likely, James Houston of The Glasgow School of Art arranged this harmonic ensemble of synthesized voices for the novelty factor. After all, hearing the voice of Fred of Ma
After 50-something versions, psychedelic Nowhere will fry your mind
Nowhere is about, well, I’m not exactly sure. The last time I heard of the game, back in spring, it had a cyberpunkish, post-singularity vibe. That was alpha 54. The new trailer has gone beyond that, showing cities of the future transformed into growing, biological detritus. Maybe what we’re looking
Persona Q makes us wonder if there’s any genre these millennials couldn’t improve
Over the weekend we got our first peek at Persona Q, the spin-off of the RPG series about battling demons and going dutch. The game, as expected, looks great, with a so-cute-it-has-to-be-Japanese art direction, and health meters you can gleam for a second that look suspiciously like those from the d
Breathtaking Arma 3 mod proves government-financed videogames are a good thing
Okay, so this military training program isn’t really a mod. But close enough. BISimulations, otherwise known as Bohemia Interactive, the creators of ARMA 3, have released this mighty impressive trailer showing off the visual technology of VBS3. Among the countries who will use the software to train
Tengami’s gorgeous world of paper pops out in our digital era, literally
Plus, no paper cuts.
Every toy you wanted for Christmas distilled into one ludicrous boardgame
The aught’s ADD meets spirited 80’s awesomeness.
Do Oculus Rift’s early adopters dream of a virtual reality afterlife?
Probably not. But the other day Aeon Magazine published a pretty creepy article, 3,500 words in length, speculating on the possibility of an afterlife which is entirely computer-simulated. So, basically, the singularity. The author’s thought process flows from the old question: if we could upload th
Joe Danger Infinity has some serious Nintendo mojo going on
Yesterday a new Joe Danger was revealed to the world. Coming to your iPhone “real soon,” it has been confirmed, is Joe Danger Infinity, the latest entry about popping wheelies on a stunt bike. Personally, I couldn’t be more excited, which is a little surprising, given that the guys at Hello have bee
These lost Tale of Tales prototypes offer a fascinating peek into the creative process
Say what you will about Tale of Tales—the best known and ostensibly pretentious art game house from Belgium. For ten years they’ve been making games that challenge our expectations. On their anniversary, they are opening the cellar and giving away, for a small donation, experiments and prototypes th
New PBS Game/Show counts down the biggest ideas in games in 2013
It’s been a great year for games. So for our special end of the year Game/Show, we’ve brainstormed the brightest and boldest ideas of the past twelve months. Of course there have been moments we’d rather forget (we’re looking at you, Resolutiongate), but overall 2013 was a melange of technical innov
These freaky robots haven’t replaced the common cat just yet, but are getting closer
Pet ownership isn’t everything it’s cracked up to be. There’s the wear-and-tear on the carpet, the vet visits, the untimely messes. But looking at the alternatives, such as hovering robotic Slinkies, maybe your shedding cat isn’t so bad. That doesn’t mean that these Cthulhu-esque robots created by t
How the small team behind The Vanishing Of Ethan Carter outdid Crysis in photorealism
The amazing thing about The Vanishing Of Ethan Carter is how nature looks more gorgeous in it than in whatever gorgeous game you have in mind: Far Cry 3, Crysis, Skyrim, Battlefield. So you might be surprised to learn that it was made by a small and unknown independent team. How’d they do it? Well,