-Monopoly expert Philip Orbanes on Hasbro’s “Save Your Token” campaign. On February 5 the piece with the lowest numer of fan votes – be it car, iron, dog, wheelbarrow, shoe, top hat, thimble or battleship – will be permanently retired and replaced with a toy robot, a helicopter, a cat, a guitar or a
David Gaider, the lead writer of BioWare’s Dragon Age series, has taken to his Tumblr to bemoan the increasingly venomous conversation among the games’ super-fans on the Bioware Social Network. Gaider writes, The signal-to-noise ratio does seem to be worsening, and eventually you get the feeling lik
Yesterday at the Consumer Electronics Show, Razer announced the specifications for its gaming tablet, “Edge.” (No article; U2 string section be damned.) The “Pro” “Edge” will cost $1300 dollars (the base model will run you one G). Here are some things you could buy with that money, if you choose not
The rules of Indie Speed Run are simple: “Make a playable game in only 48 hours. Face judgment by industry professionals and your peers. Win loot.” Caesar’s Day Off, created by Benedikt Hummel, Marius Fietzek and Sabrina Winter for, is also simple. You play as the Roman Emperor, and you can do two t
Imagine a digital version of The Game of Life set in ancient Egypt. That’s 7 Grand Steps, a historical-family-dynasty board game of sorts. In the free demo, you move pieces (characters) across a spinning wheel with tokens corresponding to Copper Age skills like brewing, writing, and masonry. Landing
By now you’ve probably heard of one incredibly dedicated Minecraft builder’s quest to recreate the world’s continents at .06% of their actual size. So just how big is that. Permit us some back-of-the-internet-enveleop math, please. The size of all of the Earth’s continents is 57,393,000 square miles
–Tomas Rawlings, designer of Syrian-rebel simulation Endgame: Syria. The game was recently rejected from distribution over the Apple app store.
That’s the case made by Chad Kilgore, a designer at Day 1 Studios, today at Gamasutra. Gardner hypothesized that human intelligence was not reducible to single metrics like IQ; rather, our intelligence is multiple and broad, spanning seven categories: spatial, linguistic mathematical-logical, bodily