Spring is all about beginnings: the budding flowers, the cleaned-out closets, our renewed addiction to sugar-coated marshmallow baby chicks. This short documentary profiles Ralph Baer, inventor of the Magnovox Odyssey, the first commercially-viable videogame console and the root of what we play tod
Here’s the OMG news of the day (okay, of yesterday): Supergiant Games, a.k.a. those guys who made the indie sensation Bastion, are making a cyberpunk game!!! To be narrated by a grimy body parts smuggler? Maybe. A couple of blokes at Boing Boing explore the strange probability of Grime dice. Very ne
Two days of winter remain. Read these and go for one last sled ride while you can. Sure, GlaDOS made some quips. But can a game truly be a comedy? One enterprising lad sought an answer (and asked our co-founder for insight along the way). Speaking of laughs: Nothing gets my gut jiggling like a subma
Here’s what you need to know. Big Boi does motion-capture for Army of Two and reveals he lost his videogame virginity at a precocious age to an Atari. So does that mean I’m street? There is a space sim game that simulates the entire known universe and beyond. Welp, that about wraps it up for games.
Impress Saint Patrick with your wisdom and know-how. If you always wanted a Neo-Geo but the hard plastic turned you off, Analogue Interactive has your answer. They’ll build you a system and joystick from “any wood in the world” — they even give you a Wood Database to choose from. The Hubble Telescop
