Indie developers have dusted off and recontextualized old genre after old genre. Yet one of my favorites – the sidescrolling shooter in the Contra vein – has gotten relatively little love. Is this becuase this type of game doesn’t lend itself to thoughtful mechanics or narrative? As the PA Report wr
Photographer Mark Nixon is on a quest to remember your toys of yesteryear. It is an adorable pursuit.
This past weekend, contestants streamed into Groupon’s SF offices for the annual Drone Games. (They were formerly called the Drone Olympics, but apparently received a cease and desist of from the actual Olympic Committee.) In a sign of the brave new world to come in our drone-infested future, James
News last week that a line of bendable phones from Samsung will launch as soon as next year set gadget heads atwitter, but also got us thinking about the possiblity for bendable screens in gaming. In 2010, researchers from a Canadian University showed off a demonstration flex-screen gaming system th
This is perhaps the best response ever: “An Iranian non-profit company says it will honor U.S. President Barack Obama’s request that Iran return a drone that crashed there last year. But instead of the actual drone, the company says it will send miniature toy versions. A lot of them. “We plan to sen
