Review
The Kill Screen Review: Far Cry 3, the first game about the Millennials
In Ubisoft’s new blockbuster, a dithering American boy-man learns how to keep up with the rest of the world.
Joseph Bernstein
News
EVE Online makers ask players to crowdsource MOMA exhibition
As we told you last week, MoMA is adding 14 games to their permanent collection, with a little help from us. CCP Games, the Icelandic company that publishes EVE Online, one of the selections, has asked the game’s players to help them in the creation of the video that explains their beloved space-far
News
The best argument I’ve seen for the Wii U is this navigable Google Maps
Wii U has a nice elevator pitch – console plus tablet – but it doesn’t have a piece of software that effortlessly demonstrates the potential of that pitch. This morning in Japan, Nintendo unveiled the best and most intuitive example of the power of their dual screens that I’ve seen: a Google Maps ap
News
Please, cruel god, resuscitate this Streets of Rage remake
The Streets of Rage games were good for a lot of reasons, from the insanely great music to the weird red-light-district ambience, to the fact that there was a playable boxing Kanagaroo named Roo. Anyroo, this Joey got his tail in a twist when he saw the following righteous footage from a SoR downloa
News
Have eSports found their Dennis Rodman?
We’ve written recently about the rise of spectator eSports, and they’re more popular than ever, but most people would be hard pressed to name an eSports star. The lack of powerful personalities in compeitive online games may be about to change. Riot Games yesterday decided to ban a professional pla
News
Departing Madden designer calls EA a money-obsessed robot. BREAKING NEWS FROM FORD’S THEATER
AJ Dembroski, a designer who worked on the past two iterations of the colossal Madden franchise, went on the Twitter warpath this week after leaving Electronic Arts. Among his contentions: the game’s extremely talented designers are chronically stifled by a pervasive focus on metrics/statistics/numb
Interview
A conversation with Greg Johnson, the creator of ToeJam & Earl
Rapping about the beloved Genesis alien duo that came in peace and funkiness.
News
Why is there a rape in Far Cry 3 and why is it different from the rape scene in Pulp Fiction?
About halfway through Far Cry 3 (which I’ll review this week), you rescue a character who, we are made to understand, has been raped by his captor. The victim has been imprisoned in a dingy basement just feet from a busy road; the sequence, which ends in the murder of the rapist, is an obvious allus
News
Why wouldn’t you help Bill Nye the Science Guy make a game about flying?
Look, I’ve got a soft spot for Bill Nye. We went to the same school. He spoke there once when I was eleven or twelve and he was goofy and had a bowtie and owned it. The Science Guy years were magical, of course, and much less codedly hostile than Mr. Wizard. Since then, Bill Nye has basically been c
News
"Instead of creating games for people to play, we have begun creating games that play people"
-Developer Jeremy Alessi in Gamasutra today, on the rise of games as revenue delivery functions. Essential reading.
News
So this is what it’s like when an MMO dies
Massively multiplayer games promise epic, persistent experiences, but in a very significant way they are less persistent than the copy of Tetris you have stashed in the basement: once developer and publisher support ends, you simply can’t play them anymore. So it goes for City of Heroes, the charmin
News
Pac-Man in the moon… of Saturn
The NASA Cassini-Huygens robotic spaceship caught this thermal signature of Tethys, and it looks like, well, it could eat a cherry and mess up some ghosts. Scientists theorize that the Pac-Man thermal shape on the Saturnian moons occurs because of the way high-energy electrons bombard low latitudes