News
We know that mainstream videogame news can be tough to keep up with, so here’s your cheat sheet for the day. 1. PlayStation Network is to return this week after compromising more than 70 million users’ credit card numbers. 2. A new look at Goichi Suda & Shinji Mikami’s upcoming Shadows of the Damned
News
One of the hacker’s more elusive skills is to turn random key mashing into beautiful streams of code at a mile a minute. Hacker Typer makes it easy as kung-fu (for Neo).
News
Experts think social games are at least partly responsible for the decline of soap operas. “Women at home used to have these virtual friends, these soap stars,” says Maria Bailey author of Mom 3.0. “Now their virtual friends have come alive, and they don’t need one-way conversations. I grew up on Su
News
PAUSE: A zombie-proof house. That is all. Wait, here’s more: The house, with its movable walls, has only one entrance, which is located on the second floor after crossing a drawbridge. More shots and details here.
News
Missile-targeting tech can also build gorgeous, 3D maps of cities accurate to 15 cm. “Unlike Google or Bing, all of our maps are 360° explorable,” says Smith, “and everything, every building, every tree, every landmark, from the city center to the suburbs, is captured in 3-D-not just a few select b
News
KS staffer Lana Polansky on GIRP, Oxford prof Bennett Foddy’s game about handholding: I can’t get to the next ring. That grey bird is sitting on it-and the next-closest ring is just out of reach. I lose my footing on that mountainside in Quebec. My fingers slip. The water rises. My nimble avatar plu
News
A look inside the mind of Flash developer Patrick Smith, creator of interactive sculptures Windosill, Acrobots, Levers, and more. The obsession with objects is reflected in Smith’s studio space. In college, he painted still-lifes of objects he’d find, and his current living space is admittedly clutt
News
A Japanese video history of the shmup (shoot-‘em-up).
News
Avatar director James Cameron is unsurprisingly championing 3D technology for home entertainment. “One of the big barriers to 3D right now is that you have to wear glasses in the home,” said Cameron. “Home viewing is very different than movie theater viewing. I don’t think we’ll ever get rid of the
News
Dogfighting of a different breed in this Android game that has earned the ire of the Humane Society and the NFL’s Michael Vick. The “Dog Wars” tag line reads “Raise Your Dog to Beat the Best,” and it was originally released on March 8, 2011 according to the Android Market website. Players can buy sh
News
PAUSE: Heaven, or the Tetris game we all had in the backs of our minds. Play it here.
News
A story about the first major survey on graffiti and street art, at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, brings up some worthwhile questions. How does the picture of an emergent artform change when museums enter in? What happens when ‘having permission’ becomes a factor? Man One also said st