Though created for different mediums and concerning totally different worlds, Half-Life and Jurassic Park share an overarching theme, one at least as old as Mary Shelley: experimental science, taken too far, can have enormous destructive power. Now, they share something else: an engine. The fan-made
Grim Fandango, the greatest game ever made, is now playable on Mac thanks to the perserverance of some aboslute heroes. Hijole! We won’t miss the poisoning after all! The day is finally upon us, after 9 years, 4 months and 6 days, we are proud to announce the first stable release of ResidualVM, and
The Sims, like most transcendent games, feels natural, like it always existed. It’s almost hard to wrap your mind around the idea that very complex and very painstaking design had to go into making something that is so elegant and so parsimonious, but of course, it did. Don Hopkins, a progammer inst
A Penn State survey of gamers reveals something a lot of us have already figured out on our own: gaming can be both a boon and a curb on our social lives. In an examination of people who played multi-player, first-person shooter games, like Call of Duty and Halo, gamers who organized their lives aro
Via Game Informer: Minnesota Vikings punter Chris Kluwe is an avid gamer and a huge s— talker. Last month, he thought he could defeat Firaxis Games’ producer and designer Garth DeAngelis at his own game of XCOM: Enemy Unknown. DeAngelis wiped the floor with Kluwe, and hasn’t let him live it down. De
The Walking Dead, the episodic adventure game that could, is the game of the year. The first installment is free today for iOS. That’s one hell of an apocalyptic stocking stuffer.
The Journey Down, the delightful reggae-inspired point and click adventure, is now available for iOS, Jah be praised. I and I celebrated irie style by talking to one of the game’s creators, overstand? Theodor Waern, of Skygoblin Games, is responsible for the game’s lovely art style. How did you get
Pyongyang Racer is the first game made in North Korea for Western consumption, and it is a brilliant critique of the tropes of overblown AAA racing games. It’s not fun at all. It’s like the game Bennett Foddy has been working towards his entire life. Instead of a decadent supply of unlimited fuel, y