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We’ve all heard this one. Maybe from a friend of a friend who swears on his mother’s grave that it happened to his cousin’s buddy. The one about the arcade game that caused strange symptoms in its players, like epilepsy and driving folks to suicide. That men in black would come to collect the data a
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While his prescience has long seen online gaming trends coming, the cyber-geek author Neal Stephenson doesn’t like to talk about it. Nor does it seem that he is particularly enthused about the Internet Age. [The] use of the vast resources of a networked world to play games with mortal stakes is a c
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A few weeks back, some interesting photos surfaced of a possible lego theme inspired by the legendary indie game title Minecraft that finally saw its official release in November. The idea was posted on the Lego Cuusoo website, which allows fans to post ideas and vote on new Lego themes. Minecraft
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Kill Screen will be hosting an event at the New Museum next week featuring contributions from figures across the videogame community including acclaimed artists, designers, and programmers. From the New Museum’s description of the event: When are games more than games? When they are communicating wi
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Sorry we haven’t done one of these in a while, so let’s make for lost time. Here’s your quick and dirty guide to mainstream gaming news: –Skyrim patch 1.2 messes everything up, no one but Bethesda cares. -Did you pick up your secret Diablo III code? –Trine 2 trailer and game launch. PC/Mac availabl
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National Geographic, a magazine that requires no introduction, has compiled a gallery of odd and weird vehicals. Some of them are just more advanced versions of ones we know and love like the high speed magnetic bullet train, but there are some gems, like my personal favourite the revolutionary war
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A new survey shows that women who play online games have more sex than woman who don’t, a statistic that has already started many awkward conversations in your World of Warcraft guild. The same survey, published in VentureBeat (with a handy infographic), shows that a majority of online gamers are wo
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iPhone game developer Oli Christie has given up trying to get banks to help fund his games, The Independent reports. Christie, founder of Neon Play, says that banks just don’t understand the games industry, dissuading developers from trying to get funding. “Banks don’t tend to have a category for vi
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In today’s installment of the Rap Map, we chat with Pill, the Atlanta trap-rapper signed to Rick Ross’s Maybach Music Group, discussing his favorite games, what a Pill videogame might look like, and he divulges that Rick Ross owns an Atari. Seriously. Pill, are you a gamer? Yeah, I game here and the
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Remember that calendar you made in elementary school to count down the days until Christmas? Well, kirkjerk.com has dedicated to posting one Yule-themed mini-game a day to help you relive those childhood memories. It’s a fine way to get in the spirit, in case seeing It’s A Wonderful Life on network
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How do videogames change from things that we generally think of as distractions and become something closer to film, music, or poetry? One view is that we expand the definition of art, so that it includes disciplines like the sciences. However, as the Heideggerian opinion of Alva Noë, a philosopher
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I can’t speak to how well this newfound form for Nintendo’s classic gaming console works, or how ergonomic the whole “handheld” component might prove to be, but the good folks over at slightlywarped.com have found an interesting way to resolve the compatibility issues older gamers wrestle with. So i