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War never changes, but the medium might. United States patent application number 85818163 was filed by Bethesda Softworks LLC on January 8th. It requests a trademark for the Fallout trademark for “Entertainment services in the nature of an on-going television program set in a post-nuclear apocalypti
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The first half of the following video details how, exactly, the “cowboy engineers” at Waterloo Labs built the famous item system of Mario Kart into an actual go-kart track. It took some servomotors, remotely-controlled steering columns, and an RFID system so that the karts could communicate with one
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That’s the conclusion reached by a University of Michigan study published in the January issue of Psychology of Violence: [Researchers] Saleem and Anderson recruited 204 participants, randomly assigning them to play one of three video games for 30 minutes. Two of the games were versions of “Counter-
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Jonathan H. Liu over at Geekdad has a nice writeup of the Kickstarter-funded SKIRMISH: Modern Card Warfare, which he calls a blend of Stratego and War (though he does take a lot of potshots at poor, innocent War. Sounds like a guy who might not be too good at War): I think what I like about the game
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Monkey Island creator Ron Gilbert has a new game coming out next week, and it looks flippin’ fantastic. In case you’ve been living in a cave, er, under a rock, here is what The Cave looks like: Other than the game’s lovely aesthetic, the thing that stands out most, of course, is Gilbert’s legendary
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–Bryony MacKenzie, BBC News.
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The Street Fighter games are friezes, not sculptures. Even when they show visual depth of field, they still exist more or less along one axis, and that’s the way we like them; that’s how they exist in our imagination. But what if the games were played in the first person? That’s the question answere
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Despite the enormous amount of coverage and sales of the Wii in the early years of this hardware cycle, and despite the fact that the PlayStation 3 appears to have the better upcoming slate of exclusive releases, DFC Intelligence, the market research firm, predicts that the Xbox 360 will have defini
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The Orchestre Lamoureux was founded in 1881, and as Simon Parkin points out, premiered Debussy’s Nocturnes, as well as his seminal La mer. The French orchestra also does a damned fine version of Nobuo Uematsu’s “One Winged Angel” (From Final Fantasy 7), as Parkin describes in his wonderful piece abo
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Gamers and other humans are understandably disgusted by the special edition of Dead Island: Riptide that comes packaged with a figurine of the legless, armless, headless, rock-breasted body of a zombie victim (no I will not include a picture of it), which publisher Deep Silver calls “a striking conv
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Researchers at the University of Manchester and Oxford University have discovered that players of games of sufficient complexity – like chess and poker – do not always, or even often, make rational decisions, because it’s simply too difficult for their brains to measure all of the available options:
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-Dean Hall, creator of DayZ, after learning that developers Ivan Buchta and Martin Pezlar had been granted bail following a 128-day imprisonment in a Greek jail. The two were arrested in September after Greek authorities charged them with espionage when they were seen filming a military base on the