Review
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
Article
Can a music videogame teach robot musicians to jam? The new Rocksmith thinks so.
The creators of Rocksmith explore the virtual sessionmate.
Article
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.
News
Earthbound comes to papa, Curiosity gets ultra-real, & the Battlestar Galactica guy is making a game
Contra posters for only a buck!
Review
We revisit LIMBO on iOS to find a warped but not unpleasant sense of joy
Playdead vamps and revamps in everyone’s macabre delight.
Article
Are costumes the new game controllers?
Kaho Abe’s wearable devices are future-chic.
Profile
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.
Article
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.
Article
At Games For Change, data theft, sex ed, and Jewish identity on full display
Our favorites from the NYC’s 10th social impact summit
Interview
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?
News
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.
Article
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?