A short think piece on Binary Revolver today calls for the end to morality systems in games: The morality system in Dishonored diminishes the game. It breaks the core mechanics into two separate pieces, choosing to boost replay value over creating one fluid experience. This made the game’s entire co
Hero to some, unbelievable weirdo to more, a man named Okan Kaya, from Sydney, Australia, set the world record for the longest video game sesh by pumping out 136 consecutive hours on Call of Duty: Black Ops 2. After failing to attract the sponsorship of retailers – who were fearful of being associat
As we all know, Movember is the do-gooding excuse most men need to obey the darkest impulse in their greasy heart, the impulse to grow a mustache. Of course, charity is often about leveraging people’s bad instincts for good purposes, so no harm no foul etc. Amazon has compiled a wonderful list of M
Earlier this month at the PRACTICE conference, Christine Norman started her presentation on narrative in League of Legends with an aside about audience engagement. Norman, the lead creative developer on LoL, showed footage of the game’s World Championship, which was live streamed globally and featur
Science Daily reports: Both high school sophomores who played video games on average two hours per day and college students who played four hours of video games daily matched, and in some cases exceeded, the skills of the residents on parameters that included how much tension the subjects put on the
The new game from the indie developer Edward Curtis-Sivess is best described as a 2-D Dyad. Like that game, In Space features brainstem-tickling waves of hypnotic electronica. Like that game, you play as a little amorphous ship shooting shapes in the distance, and like that game, you get rewarded fo
Dikembe Mutombo‘s 4 1/2 Weeks to Save the World is the timeless story of the retired Congolese NBA center’s quest to prevent the Mayan prophecy of a Dec 21 apocalypse from happening, at the behest of a hyper-intelligent English bear in a Fair Isle sweater. Along the way you take off in a rocketship