With Rusty’s Real Deal Baseball, Nintendo returns baseball to the sandlot
The sweet crack of a bat against rawhide.
Jon Irwin
Will wearables bring videogame design into the real world?
Better living through data.
Leading developers tell us how they would turn Apple’s Touch ID into play
Prototypes from the creators of 868-HACK, Type: Rider, and Hiversaires.
Weapon Shop de Omasse picks apart videogame conventions
Begin your quest, noble store clerk.
Donkey Kong Country: Tropical Freeze returns the series to its 16-bit glory
Depending on your vision, of course.
Videogame design in an age of biological feedback
How a surplus of data can help and hurt creators.
Why Nintendo’s announcements this week may save us all
Don’t be worried. Be excited.
Wearable tech could help erotic videogames become truly mature
New forms of input and output mean narrative reactions can become physical ones.
Wii Fit U vs Xbox Fitness: The exercise game cage match
Two games enter. Both probably leave.
Controllers will ruin tablet gaming
Fixing something that isn’t broke.
2013: The Year Social Games Grew Up
Introducing Social Games 2.0.
Boston’s development scene spans the history of videogames
We talk to devs from Harmonix, Moonshot and the MIT Media Labs.
Nintendo’s Streetpass games reinvent mobile currency
Bitcoin? Get outta here.
Wii Sports Club shows the beauty of fixing what’s not broken
Also on the docket, apparently: fucking up the proud state of Ohio.
Super Mario 3D World is an embodiment of joy
Nintendo is very good at making videogames.
In a loud week, Nintendo quietly reminds us of Wii Sports’ perfection
Playing hard the Hollywood way.
Wii Party U is a tribute to Nintendo’s past
Think less Super Mario, more Love Tester.
The unlikely appeal of Type:Rider, a platformer about fonts
Unless you’re already a Helvetica fanatic, in which case you know how cool this is.
The sadly exaggerated death of Nintendo Land
Nintendo is phasing out its Wii U debut, but one writer keeps the hope.
In Wind Waker HD, Link wanders into the Miiverse
Things are gonna get a bit meta.
I am a grown, married adult and I played Spin the Bottle: Bumpie’s Party
I stand tall and pronounce this decision as a good one.
What would it mean for Farming Simulator 2013 to actually simulate farming in 2013?
What it does have is real nice tractor sounds. Real nice ones.
The Wonderful 101 is punitive, messy, and maybe beautiful
As might befit a game where you play 100 people at once.