If your bucket list is anything like mine, you hope to one day take part in a real life Mario Kart race. I can only fathom that Reggie Fils-Aime, president of Nintendo of America, had a similar fantastical wish. Under the guise of promoting the new Mario Kart game due out in December, Fils-Aime comm
In a recent interview about his game-poem A Slow Year, written for Atari 2600, Ian Bogost mused over why videogames are often compared to films and novels, when the closest analogy might be poetry. poetry feels game-like to me not because it is procedural, but because it is highly condensed… symbols
Wonder what LeBron James is up to during the lockout? He’s Batman. He tweeted: “What an amazing game “Batman Arkham City”. Just finished and beat it. Everyone who had a hand in creating it, I wanna say Thank You! #Gamer” Next, he plans on winning a title… in NBA2K. (via) -Jason Johnson
The Assassin’s Creed: Revelations team managed to recreate an authentic 16th century Constantinople, even though many of the buildings in the game no longer exist. [A]rt director Raphael Lacoste and mission design director Falko Poiker turned draftsmen. They made a research trip to the city (today’
A group of kids out of Cumbria have decided that the best way to raise awareness about mental health disorders was to create a game. Finlay Miles, 13, Matty Goad, 16, and Reuben Kane, 14, all have Asperger’s syndrome and came up with a design featured a character named “Naked Edgar” a cartoonist’s d
Welcome back to the Rap Map! Today, we talk to Dallas, TX’s own Dorrough, who talked about playing videogames with Slim Thug, gambling against Ace Hood, and his debilitating Angry Birds addiction. Do you play videogames with other rappers? The last rappers who I played a videogame with were probabl
Will Wright, acclaimed designer of classics Sim City and The Sims, is looking to create a new type of game. Dubbed “personal gaming,” Wright is trying to create games that shape themselves after the person playing them. “How can we make a system that understands enough about you and gives you situat
On the same day that Matthew Briet blogged about his Minecraft addiction, Translational Psychiatry published a study that linked videogames and addiction. According to BBC, Brain scans showed a larger ventral striatum, which is the hub of the brain’s reward system, in regular gamers… the region is “