Interview
Monaco’s Andy Schatz takes us on the ultimate heist
Pocketwatch Games founder goes deep on what makes a good heist movie. Drama ensues.
Jason Johnson
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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.
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So what makes a "queer" game anyway?
Game designers at the QUILTBAG game jam have an answer.
Article
Videogames need fewer Metacritics, more Roger Eberts.
Where all my critics at?
News
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
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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.
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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!
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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
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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
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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
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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
Interview
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.