Tim Schafer, lead writer and creative director of some of the most inventive and moving adventure games ever (Grim Fandango, Psychonauts, Brütal Legend), writes beyond what his games show on the screen. His recent interview with On The Media–cut from a longer interview about Schafer’s multimillion d
Who knows why the endearingly blustery 21st-century philosopher from Slovenia hung a poster of Call of Duty: Black Ops in his living room? Either way, according to this recent Guardian profile, the celebrated/ridiculed genius/”Borat of philosophy” does indeed have the poster. We can only hope that h
Drifting toward a more Deist approach to the in-game world, Big Robot’s in-development Sir, You Are Being Hunted generates its own environment. Ostensibly, Hunted is a game of surviving on moors patroled by rabid, robotic, tea-drunk gentelmen poachers, who presumably shoot on sight. But these spooky
Finally expanding the one game universe we believed was just too unbelievably cloistered, Snakes on a Cartesian Plane by netgrind has introduced speciation to the classic cellphone game. Chase to unlock the Mamba, Python, Boa, Solid Snakes, etc. Despite the memetic name, Cartesian investigation and
Implement this into next year’s baseball sim: The New York Times’ detailed 3D map of one of baseball’s most confouding pitches–Mariano Rivera’s cutter. Thankfully, Youtube offers the historical gamut of 3D technologies and styles, including the old fashion naked eye(s). So if you humble yourself in
Like a child tapping glass at a toy store window display, the creators of Tactus Technology have felt a rift between finger and device since 2007, when Apple dropped the touch-screen veil over its devices and denied consumers the feeling of total manual domination. Perhaps seeing that child in all o
Flying in the palmed face of such nascent alternate Abraham Lincoln anti-histories as Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter, comes Pixel Lincoln: The Deckbuilding Game, a Kickstarter-backed card game promising the “fun and simple” appeal of a meat-slinging, dino-slaying, 8-bit Abraham Lincoln. The baroque
Artist Donald Judd would have likely seen a fundamental difference between Box Life–the free, abstract, first-person problem sovler by Tequbio–and his own work. That is, his box-y pieces dictate an experience of structural purity in the real world. Box Life–as a videogame–abstracts and softens the s