Photo: Agence France-Presse The Syrian rebels, deep into the second year of their struggle against the repressive Assad regime, don’t have the resources of a national armed forces; they have to improvise. This AFP piece gives the layout of the homemmade Shams II armored vehicle, which is a: fully-en
-Brad Bushman, professor of communication and psychology at Ohio State University, whose new study found that college students played violent games for three days in a row demonstrated increased aggressive behavior, while those who played nonviolent games did not.
My older sister and I didn’t have a particularly competitive relationship, and that’s not just because I’m better at everything than her (Hi Sara!). There was one area in which we were at each other’s throats, however, and it had nothing to do with school or sports or parental affection. That area w
Here’s a fascinating read this morning in Gamasutra: business advice for Western publishers looking to break into the booming Middle Eastern gaming market. In particular, games that emphasize social meeting space have been doing extremely well in the region, with its extremely young population and
Good news! Sportsfriends, the collection of excellent, offbeat local mulitplayer sports titles – from headliner JS Joust to Bennett Foddy’s awesome and cheekily-named Super Pole Riders, has hit its $150,000 Kickstarter funding target. We told you about the collection last month, in a conversation wi
There were much better games for the PlayStation than Legacy of Kain: Soul Reaver, but perhaps none I remember more vividly or more fondly. From the opening cinematic on, this game owned my life. Oh, yes, that cinematic, to my mind the best one of the 32-bit era, by a wide margin: Dear lord. Ok, so,
It’s called Teleglitch and it looks like this: The plot sounds like the best movie never made: See the future where humanity is controlled by cold, dark mega-corporations. One of them is Miliary Technology Incorporated (aka Militech), one of the world’s largest military research organizations, speci
It’s almost as hard to get Rockstar head honcho Sam Houser to talk at length as it is to get a picture of him – only a handful are floating around the internet. That’s why Edge’s quasi-oral history of GTA: Vice City with Houser is such a coup. This thing is full of gems, but my favorite is the story