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I’ll admit that my experience with chess is basically limited to two frustrating eras: childhood summer vacations in which I got waxed by my stepdad in a house in Maine where we had nothing better to do than play chess, and in English class in 7th and 8th grade where Mr. Sotella liked to play with a
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-From Edge’s hilarious and dark history of griefing, or multiplayer trolling.
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Dark Souls was such a massive achievement that I think it actually led to the unfortunate consquence of rendering its predecessor, Demon’s Souls, obsolete in the eyes of many gamers who haven’t played it. It’s not uncommon for me to hear that someone has played and adored Dark Souls but does not see
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Five or eight years from now, when Adrian Peterson retires from the National Football League, he may be considered the greatest running back in the history of football. What he did this past year is ridiculous: after tearing his ACL in December 2011, he came back to have the second-best statistical
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From Metacritic.com’s “Best Games of 2012” feature. As we wrote in our game of the year list yesterday, 2012 may have been slight on AAA highlights but was undoubtedly rich with diverse gaming pleasures. This feature, crucially, does not measure the total number of “Good” games (defined as 75 and ab
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From the San Francisco-based engineer and artist Rama Hoetzlein:
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Over the past few months we’ve written about the rise of so-called “esports”, from the “athletes”, to the regulators, to the technology that has allowed a boom in remote viewership. It’s a nascent culture, to be sure, with its own tropes and mores and beliefs, and as such it seems ripe for a well-ob
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We – and many other outlets – just named an indie game as our finest of 2012. If anything, it looks like this year may bring an even richer crop of games made by small and independent studios. From the Braid followup The Witness to the years-in-the-anticipating group heist coop game Monaco, to the r
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Last fall we interviewed Miriam Bellard, one half of the duo behind Seduce Me, the indie converse-and-get-perverse game that Steam yanked from Greenlight for indecency. Speaking to Bellard, I realized that the game wasn’t a cash grab or a stunt; she legitimately wants to address what they perceive a
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Rami Ismail, of Super Crate Box developer Vlambeer, forecasted the impact of the Ouya to the Penny Arcade Report’s Ben Kuchera.
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These graphs, from a larger paper done by Mike Zuurman of Xentax, show a dramatic decrease in the number of games released since 2009. As the author notes, this may be due to decreased reporting by gamers (entries at MG are user-generated), because it doesn’t seem to square that the real number of g
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As you have no doubt been told by now, there are AT LEAST two different kinds of gamers: core (slobbering, mouth-breathing tweens, teens) and casual (moms, people who put games in the same category as toasters). Well, it has started to strike some folks that this binary is not particularly subtle, n