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Not a lot of writing, apparently. It’s no secret that the author Neil Gaiman has been on board for a new game with indie developers The Odd Gentlemen, best known for the Chaplinesque The Misadventures of P.B. Winterbottom (and for drawing us an awesome t-shirt design of an octopus smoking a calabash
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For as long as I can remember, which albeit isn’t that long, we’ve played our videogame role playing games on a monitor and our tabletop role playing games at the kitchen table. As thus, sitting in front of a screen lacked the face-time of a good boardgame, and boardgames lacked the fluidity of stab
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Esports are huge. This year’s League of Legends World Championship was held at a sold-out Staples Center, home of the Los Angeles Lakers. With spectacular events like this, it’s easy to forget that there is a huge barrier to esports that doesn’t exist with other sports. Namely, a large portion of th
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The internet is a great place to be if you demand an endless stream of pictures of cute cats and ugly babies. But it’s not so great if you are announcing features for a new game console that fans are not especially stoked about, (or are a professional bodybuilder trying to pass on your knowledge to
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In the dominion of analog synths, the Korg MS is iconic as they come—a black and white keyboard with an upright console of knobs towering above. The Korg M1, not so much. But looks can be deceiving. While the M1 was a standard keyboard, it sonically outperformed its accordion-shaped older brother.
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With the coming of age of wearable computer technology like Google Glass (and not like this), the use of augmented reality is posed to accelerate by a lot in the coming years. A new report predicts a “paradigm shift” where AR use will expand by 333 percent by the year 2018, increasing from 60 milli
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Synesthesia, or the mental state that blurs the boundaries between sight and sound, is a rare neurological condition. That is unless you’re playing Fract, where it happens all the time. “The audio is so intrinsically connected to the mechanics of the puzzles. Because many systems are plugged into w
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Forza Motorsport 5 is launching with the Xbox One, which means we will all soon be racing shiny expensive roadsters against a sentient supercomputer A.I. that’s based in the cloud, eyeing our every move. “First we have to see what it’s going to continue learning, once there’s a million people train
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Leave it to the bassist from Lightning Bolt to make the demonic/cyberpunk, rhythm/racing game of your dreams. If you haven’t heard of the band, imagine a relentless, noisy shredding of vainglorious metal riffs. If you haven’t heard of the genre, well, neither have we! Thumper is the game in question
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A duo of interactive media artists have pitted two Macbook Pros against one another in a never-ending game of rock-paper-scissors. There is an algorithm that picks between paper, scissors, or rock running on both computers, which are connected by an ethernet cable. The winner gets a point. Going by
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Markus Persson, or Notch, is known across the Internet for throwing lavish parties and wearing a trilby. Oh yeah, you might’ve also heard of a little indie game he made. It’s called Minecraft. It’s only sold something like 30 million copies, which raises the question of why doesn’t Notch own a more
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Jonathan Blow, the creator of the allegorical Braid, a game-changing platformer about rewinding time, thinks that some games are evoking the cookie-cutter mentality of terrible television of yesteryear. In a talk titled “The medium is the message,” given at Creative Mornings, Blow summoned the spiri