Introducing DRONE, an ethically-bending card game for the guilty American
Sonny Rae Tempest wants you to laugh at drone warfare. You’ll feel terrible about it. You should.
Jason Johnson
So what makes a "queer" game anyway?
Game designers at the QUILTBAG game jam have an answer.
Videogames need fewer Metacritics, more Roger Eberts.
Where all my critics at?
So long LucasArts, Jet Li endorses pro gaming, and Facebook phone humor
Long-time film critic and videogame antagonist Roger Ebert passed away. Our condolences to his family. (More on him later!) Jet Li can kick your ass and beat you in videogames. Life is so not fair. Two parties have settled their Killer Instinct trademark feud. Bring on the remake, and the Sabrewulf
Face-on with Oculus Rift: My eyes loved it, but not my stomach.
The virtual realities of Oculus Rift are an ecstatic spectacle, but bring Dramamine.
How SimCity’s Will Wright wants to use your memories in the cloud to talk to aliens
Collect all of your memories and send them to space and back!
Forget Mass Effect. NASA wants to put you in space for real.
The NASA session at G.D.C., We Are The Space Invaders, came at the end of a long day. Everyone looked exhausted, the woman sitting next to me had her shoes off, and more than a few chairs were free. You could almost here a collective sigh as the two presenters, Victor Luo and Jeff Norris of the NASA
Snake goes Rag & Bone in the making of Metal Gear 5
We already figured out from all the teasers and the gossip that Hideo Kojima and co. were doing Metal Gear Solid 5. That much was obvious. But what we were yet to learn is where Snake gets his ultra-fashionable, distressed leather jackets from. I can confirm it’s not from Rag & Bone. Yesterday, at
Far Cry 3 writer battles critics on Twitter, summons drug PSAs for defense
Far Cry 3, with its torture scenes and male-and-male rape and its leading millennial star named Jason Brody, is positioned as a work of cultural critique, a meta-commentary on the addictive gameplay systems and unsightly tropes found in popular shooter videogames. We’ve written about that before. Bu
The dream of virtual foosball is alive and well…in Jordan
Stateside, a good game of foosball can be hard to come by. If you manage to find a table, it’ll probably be tucked in the corner of a dive bar, in a sad state of disuse, the miniature wooden ballers suspended at diagonal angles, the football lost. The only footzy action I’ve witnessed so far this ye
Tiny Games has a game for every occasion: drinking at the bar, break-ups, and possibly funerals
The app Tiny Games has hundreds of spontantious games for you to play literally anywhere. We talked to Margaret Robertson about the most inappropriate places to play silly games, and why that might not be as bad as you think.
Want to know what happens to your body after 56 hours of Missile Command?
Hallucinations. Fatigue. Sleep deprivation. Madness. Victor Sandberg saw it all during his record-breaking Missile Command run.
Dust off those MFAs. 19th century masters come to life in "artist simulation" game.
A history thesis that pieces together Gustave Courbet and Édouard Manet, Avant-Garde is great because it steals almost everything.
NASA game jam proves the future of space is at play
The Dark Side of the Jam game jam is NASA’s latest attempt to reinvigorate the general populace’s foundering interest in space. It seemed to have worked for this group of Brazilian game jammers.
Rewind: How a tuna fishing documentary and heavy drinking inspired the launch of Ridiculous Fishing
More than a year ago, we interviewed the team behind the then-nascent Ridiculous Fishing. With the game finally available, we decided to revisit our visit.
Robin Arnott engineers joy with heavy breathing, chants, and echolocation.
We talk to Deep Sea creator Robin Arnott about SoundSelf, the euphoric, psychedelic, and amazing joy-producing software that likes to be sung to.
Was game show Legends of the Hidden Temple exploitative, hilarious or just schadenfreude?
I actually watched Legends of the Hidden Temple. A lot. Monday through Friday. It was a routine. I desperately wanted to be on the show, to run the Temple Run. It was like Indiana Jones for tweens. What I didn’t realize at my impressionable age is that it was a trial of public humiliation and shame.
We predicted the $2m Torment project on Kickstarter last year
Not long ago, CRPG was an acronym you didn’t hear much anymore. Then, Kickstarter came along and the CRPG had its Rocky moment. And the latest runaway champion in the computer role-playing game comeback is Torment: Tides of Numenera. Kicked and funded in mere hours, Numenera is a continuation of Tor
Between Lincoln and Einstein, who would win in an Eternal Duel of Wits?
Lincoln had an austere and rigorous way with words. The Gettysburg Address is memorable not only for the message but for its gritty elocution. Still, there was a smidgen of down-home earthiness to Lincoln’s speeches, as you can hear in a line like “a drop of honey catches more flies than a gallon of
Board game Dog Nose Knows explains exactly what’s going through your puppy’s head
Whether you’re infatuated with a miniature pinscher, chocolate labrador, red pomeranian, or shih tzu, you doubtlessly think you know your pet pretty well. Dog lovers spend a great deal of time walking their pooches, getting them groomed, throwing them tennis balls, and sharing with them the bed and
An Arabic translation of Ocarina of Time blurs the boundaries of culture and art
A group of fan translators spent three years translating a game they could already read pretty well. Why? Because Ocarina of Time looks stunning in Arabic.
The glorious propaganda of Eve Online
Over at The Mittani, Alikchi has put together a fascinating article on the propaganda of Eve. It turns out intergalactic war among space fleets on MMO servers is not altogether different from the wars fought in real life on planet Earth. Both rely on vainglorious messages to recruit, rally the troop
EyeWire and the Brave New World of crowd-sourced neuroscience games
The retina of the eye is wired with a superhighway of fiber, and the crowd-sourced research project dedicated to charting it is called EyeWire. It was codeveloped at MIT and Max Planck Institute for Medical Research under the tutelage of Dr. Sebastian Seung, a professor of neuroscience who specializ
A quick walk down memory lane shows how far the look of shooters have come.
The shooter is now legal drinking age, and from the early years to the awkward teens and on to today, it has come a long way. To prove it, a YouTuber has posted this montage, The Graphic Evolution of First Person Shooters: 1992-2012. Whoa! I had totally forgotten how bad Unreal Tournament looks. It’
That heads-up display from your favorite shooter? It’s at work in Afghanistan.
Here’s your weekly reminder that war is becoming uncannily similar to shooters. The Germans have rolled out a sophisticated combat system known as Gladius, Latin for sword, which is not only scary-sounding, but uncomfortably videogame-esque. The initial batch of systems will let the good guys ferre