Hey Internet, your petitions don’t matter to Reggie
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Jason Johnson
No spreadsheet is safe when Typing of the Dead meets Football Manager
Paperwork, videogames, whatevs.
Pretend real life is designed by Nintendo with these Mario mass transportation maps
If you’re not a morning person, and lord knows I’m not, you know how loathsome that morning commute can be. There’s the onrush of dissatisfied people, the inelegance of multitasking from a smartphone, the spilt coffee. Whether your headed to midtown or Jersey, Robert Bacon has designed the subway ma
Valve creates something called a "Tongue Mouse," which obviously raises some questions
Those ingenuous engineers at Valve have invented a mouthpiece that could make games more accessible to disabled players. The creatively named “Tongue Mouse” is a mouse that lets you control a reticule with the tip of your tongue, as its inventor Ben Krasnow explains in the video below. However, Kras
DOTA 2 and League of Legends are like the NBA and ABA of esports
When the 2014 contracts fell into the eager hands of League of Legends pros, they noticed a curious clause in it. They had been prohibited from streaming themselves playing games made by Riot’s competitors. At the top of the list was Valve’s DOTA 2, that other multiplayer online battle arena game. R
Of course there is a Minecraft opera
When I heard that Virginia Tech students were performing an opera in Minecraft, my reaction could be described as befuddled dissonance. My logical brain thought: What the hell, a Minecraft opera? And the part of my brain that knows and loves the internet thought: Of course, there is a Minecraft oper
Money doesn’t matter, says Finnish developer swimming in money
Yesterday Tech Crunch published a corporate profile on the new wave of uber-successful mobile games coming out of Finland, including the popular Clash of Clans, and a game I forget the name of—something to do with miffed red canaries? In any case, the key to success for these filthy rich Fins, says
Rymdkapsel’s soundtrack drops… on cassette. Here’s why that’s perfect
With the stylish and Swedish-made Rymdkapsel coming out for the PC, its composer Salkinitzor found it the right opportunity to release a (very) limited edition cassette of the game’s 30 minute soundtrack. It’s a nice-looking tape and a listenable album. If you’re wondering why a cassette, this is a
The plot line of Call of Duty suddenly makes perfect sense
Real-life is even stupider than Call of Duty
Solve puzzles, help DARPA, and hopefully they’ll keep the scary robots caged
You can patch DARPA’s buggy software by playing these brainy games
How to make six figures playing videogames from home
It involves lots of YouTube.
The Xbox One proves there is no definition of indie
We want a videogame Fugazi.
Wadjet Eye makes good on the the promise of touchscreen adventure gaming
Your tablet and phone is about to get adventure-ified.
How one WOW player changed the war in Syria
We we’re catching up on our magazine backlog over the holiday, and came across this amazing story in the New Yorker from a few weeks back. The yearly technology issue had a profile on Eliot Higgins, a tenacious blogger who used his internet savvy to prove that Syria had indeed used chemical weapons.
The boundary between first-person shooters and graphic art is a BFG
In the latest Harper’s, Ben Lerner describes 20th century art as a wave of vandalism. If that’s the case, then the graphic designer Louisa Gagliardi stays the course with her series of monochromatic illustrations entitled FPS. She has tagged works of well-known graphic artists such as Ellsworth Kell
The Jane Austen MMO is not a joke
Our first thought when we heard there was a Jane Austen MMO on Kickstarter was that this has to be a joke. But when we saw that the project was successfully funded for over a hundred-thousand dollars, we realized it was for real. Ever, Jane: The Virtual World of Jane Austen exists currently as an ea
Why aren’t more people talking about FJORDS?
FJORDS—a little-known game about the endless exploration of computer code and glistening cataracts with a hook shot—has been out for just over a month. It was a Fantastic Arcade selection and comes highly-recommended by the ambassador of indie games Brandon Boyer. Despite the accolades, Kyle Reimerg
Maybe Phil Fish was right and Xbox One really is "anti-indie"
Microsoft’s relationship with individual creators is notoriously dicey. The hefty corporate entity has taken heat for a number of its policies, such as the displacement of the erstwhile Xbox Indie Games service, and charging the little guy exorbitant fees, causing Phil Fish to infamously tweet “Not
This game will probably land you on a terrorist watch list
Since this summer when Edward Snowden informed the world that the NSA is snooping on all of us, I’ve been a little more cautious about what I say online. More than a few instant messages that could be taken the wrong way have ended in a nervous joke about now being on the terrorist watch list. If y
Black Friday is a lot less stressful when you let computers do your shopping
A bot that buys random stuff from Amazon, Darius Kazemi’s Random Shopper was a stroke of demented genius. Zazemi programmed the automated software to crawl the pages of the online retailer and spend fifty dollars on physical media at random each month, which is ironic in all kinds of ways. On Black
Our favorite games on sale this Black Friday
The above image is either a scene from The Last of Us or from a Target earlier today. We’re not really sure. So we don’t blame you if you stayed snuggled in bed on Black Friday, avoiding the riots at your local electronics department. If you braved the cold and the inhumanity, more power to you. But
STARWHAL is the euphoric fighting game with candy-colored whales
At the end of a long day, sometimes you really need some STARWHAL. You simply can’t beat the therapeutic qualities of a rainbow of orcas spiraling end over end in a futile attempt to jab each other with sparkling magic wands. Or are they unicorn horns? To quote its Kickstarter page, “STARWHAL will
Steam reviews may become the AMAs of game criticism
One thing we’ve seen since Steam user-reviews have gone live is a onslaught of indie game developers asking for their Twitter followers to rate their games, as you can see: This is amazing because, whereas large teams dread being reviewed by reviewers-at-large on the aggregate site Metacritic, here
In the 3DS’s virtual Louvre, the tour guide is the art
Once upon a time in the late aughts, Nintendo had a dream that the DS would be used for any number of non-gaming extracurricular activities: ordering beers at Seattle Mariner home games, touring feudal rock gardens in Osaka; and ogling the Venus de Milo at the Louvre. The idea with the Louvre in pa
Unsurprisingly, Jonathan Blow hates Sony’s SmartWig
And who can blame him? The oxymoronic device which Sony has patented is a toupee that sends “tactile feedback” to your cerebral cortex when you, say, receive an email, or an important text. The hypothetical mane would be equipped with a variety of sensors, and possibly GPS, a point-and-click camera,