Is Shin Megami Tensei 4 gaming’s The Savage Detectives?
It’s been ten years since the last entry in Atlus’s flagship role-playing series. Luckily, Shin Megami Tensei 4 will keep you busy the next ten.
Jason Johnson
Can a music videogame teach robot musicians to jam? The new Rocksmith thinks so.
The creators of Rocksmith explore the virtual sessionmate.
Meet the voxel, the pixel’s long-lost cousin, and why it became videogames’ Betamax
Ken Silverman spent his early adulthood hoping to voxels would make him the game generation’s Edison. Instead, he became its Tesla.
Earthbound comes to papa, Curiosity gets ultra-real, & the Battlestar Galactica guy is making a game
Contra posters for only a buck!
We revisit LIMBO on iOS to find a warped but not unpleasant sense of joy
Playdead vamps and revamps in everyone’s macabre delight.
Are costumes the new game controllers?
Kaho Abe’s wearable devices are future-chic.
Can Devine Lu Linvega create his own language? Or a new world?
Devine Lu Linvega’s occult language connects his games Nataniev and Hiversaires to the isolated streets of Tokyo. Also, he can see sound.
In Ethiopia, one game design professor believes that young girls hold the key
Jessica Hammer is changing Eastern Africa, one dice roll at a time.
At Games For Change, data theft, sex ed, and Jewish identity on full display
Our favorites from the NYC’s 10th social impact summit
OUYA’s Julie Uhrman on Breaking Bad, TV bingeing, and being a rebel
The wait is over. Can the OUYA bring change to your television?
Chewing gum controls, Microsoft hate, and Hotline Miami 2 comments on your comments about violence
Fez 2, Skulls of the Shogun, Hotline Miami 2, Xbox One, papercraft, chewing gum games, and analog controls are back in fashion.
Big data comes to games. How one company sees the future in personalized play.
Pretty soon game designers will know everything about how you play. Is that a good thing?
Is the design of the new Xbox One too masculine?
We speak to a handful of industrial designers about what Xbox One’s design really means.
Sex ed games, Second Life, and Whack-A-Mole for Cats
Safe Sex with Friends, Whack-A-Mole with Cats, Dada with Second Life‘s founder, parties with spies, art games with umbilical cords, and shoot’em ups with insane dimensions, and more on Cheat Sheet!
Do treadmills and virtual reality mix?
Launched on Kickstarter today, the Omni will have you lacing up your sneakers to play Team Fortress 2.
Call of Juarez: Gunslinger is high country for old men
Call of Juarez: Gunslinger has a lot to say, but the truth lies in the shooting.
Can Major League Gaming make videogames as easy to watch as football?
Most games are hard to watch live. How one competitive gaming outlet is looking to change your perspective.
The Kill Screen Review: Metro: Last Light turns up the gas
Metro: Last Light has great atmosphere. But don’t inhale.
Meet the man who’s been playing the same Pokémon character for a decade
How far would you go to keep your favorite videogame character alive?
Inside the strange and confusing world of Kickstarter consultants
The success of the crowd-funding site has birthed a cottage industry of consultants. Is it really worth it?
How The Perfect Woman answers Wikipedia’s male bias
Society is always putting idealized representations of women in your face. The Perfect Woman says forget about it.
Jason Rohrer hid a board game in the Nevada desert. So we went looking for it.
There’s only one copy of A Game for Someone. And it’s buried somewhere in the Nevada badland.
The Kill Screen Review: Monaco will steal your time and your heart
Andy Schatz’s long-awaited Monaco is a deft tribute to the heist film, but builds a world all its own.
A survival horror game that puts you as a baby in a crib, Among the Sleep is only getting started.
A Norwegian studio captures the fear of childhood with the eeriest of intentions. Also, trolls!
Monaco’s Andy Schatz takes us on the ultimate heist
Pocketwatch Games founder goes deep on what makes a good heist movie. Drama ensues.