Jess Joho

Firewatch looks like Walking Dead and Kentucky Route Zero’s love child

Campo Santo, the self-described “small but scrappy” indie studio announced last year, finally revealed Firewatch as its first game. If you’re a podcast listener, you’ll recognize Campo Santo as the latest collaboration between Idle Thumbs host and ex-TellTale lead designers Jake Rodkin and Sean Vana

Watch 10,000 people play Pokemon at the same time on Twitch

Twitch.tv is utilizing the pull of nostalgia to comment on the futile optimism of an absolute democracy. Or at least that’s the sense we’re getting from the live stream, crowd-sourced playthrough of Pokémon Red/Blue. Just us? Well a Gameboy emulator converts an endless scroll of text-based commands