Tomorrow’s release of the mega-violent top-down shooter Hotline: Miami won’t generate much controversy, and the reason why is Grand Theft Auto. I’m not talking about Hot Coffee. Before CJ and before Tommy Vercetti, there was the manic bird’s-eye joyride of the first GTA, and the storm-of-the-century
I will always say this: – – – When I mean this: And vice-versa. And it is annoying. Does anyone else have this problem?
What’s funner than any videogame, and almost as fun as a zipline? That’s right: a TRAMPOLINE. Some French geniuses have built a trampoline bridge over the Seine, and the children of France (and children at heart of France) are currently rejoicing, in midair, and HEY CHECK IT OUT I’M DOING A BACKFLIP
James Fallows, eminence grise at The Atlantic, has probably never played XCOM: Enemy Unknown. Today, however, he linked to a real-time cyberattacks map made by the security concern Honeypot (FYI a “honey trap” is a dummy server made to look like exploitable by hackers, in order to catch them). It lo
The founder of Electronic Arts, the amusingly-named Trip Hawkins, predicts a slow decline for console gaming: It’s going to become a smaller market, and it’s going to be more like a hobby market. You look at airplanes. Most of us just want to be a passenger, but there’s a hobby market for people who
