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It’s no secret that social games like CityVille have a seedy underbelly, relying on casino schemes to keep players pumping in e-bucks and spamming friends. But now that there is a social game that purports to correct the social ill of poverty in the third world, you can feel better about idly wastin
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With our spinning jennies and textile mills and industry, the ancient Iranian craft of carpet weaving, which dates back some 2,500 years, is one that is lost to much of the modern world. Yet these luxurious woolen rugs with symmetrical patterns and paisley motifs are the subject of the devious Farsh
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That handsome incorrigible rouge of the British royal lineage, Prince Harry is at it again, this time ruffling up the Taliban by comparing war games to videogames. Last night, The Guardian posted an interview with the young prince, who, on his way home from a four month tour of duty in Afghanistan,
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The internet is a source of limitless amazement, as evidenced in this new trailer for Unearthed: Trail of Ibn Battuta, an Arabic developed knock-off of the Uncharted series, which has surfaced on Steam Greenlight. If you think the game’s treasure-hunting protagonist Faris Jawad looks familiar, you’r
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No longer pigeonholed as the needless playthings of Gen Y’ers, videogames are forever proving their usefulness to science. Scientific American ran an illuminating article on memory and how it is obfuscated by the simple act of, get this, walking through a door. It’s harder than you think. – – – Acco
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We’re all in agreement here that videogames are a form of art, right there with hip-hop and architecture and the animated GIF, but what about code, that intangible string of 1’s and 0’s running in the background, managing the possibilities for interaction with the structure of a game. Could that too
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The career of a practicing poet is an obscure one, often confined to the pages of chatbooks with small runs. Just imagine the difficulties of a guy who makes, um, something there isn’t a word for, videogame poems. Gap is a new poem, and a navigable one, by the programmer/poet extraordinaire Sonny R
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Last week, a demo for Fire Emblem Awakening, the latest entry in a series of tactical-role playing games that dates way back to 1990, was made available for free on the Nintendo 3DS store, and there went my night! You can think of Fire Emblem like chess or go or Djambi, but with less balance and mor
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You might have heard that Temple Run 2, the sequel to one of the most popular games on iOS, was released today. You might have even downloaded and had the same reaction as we did: ENOUGH IS ENOUGH! Canabalt was nice, but it’s time to move on. We have no beef in particular with the Temple Run franchi
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It was a crisp, clear day in March, and I was walking briskly to the Westin Hotel, trying to keep warm in the shadows of high buildings on 3rd, between Mission and Market. I had an arrangement to meet “a guy with a big beard and wearing a cowboy hat.” I knew little else. This bearded stranger was Sh
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The word on the street is that Time Surfer is great. I know this because when I tell people I’m playing it, they usually respond with, “I hear that’s great!” And Time Surfer, an iPhone game about, funnily enough, surfing through time, IS great. It is that game, the mobile distraction that, if you gi
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From the rising popularity of hot yoga to controversy over kids doing the sun salutation in middle school, the two thousand year-old ritual from India is having a moment. So we thought it would be a perfect time to visit one of the most twisted exercise games around, the 2012 Indiecade finalist Zomb