Our ongoing “pre-game” series rolls on with Tommy Refenes and Edmund McMillen, creators of the popular Super Meat Boy. By far, this is our best interview to date. Big childhood secret? Edmund: When i was 8 me and this neighbor hood boy touched each others junk behind his house, for some reason afte
Keeping up with mainstream videogame news is tough. Here’s what happened over the last day or so. -Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 stuff leaked. -An EA Tiburon employee made a swan song for his fellow employees. -American McGee, creator of the Alice series, received funding for five more games. –Angr
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Mainstream videogame news can be tough to slog through. Here’s what you need to know from the last day: –Portal and Mortal Kombat nab top sales honors last month –Chrono Trigger comes to the Wii on Monday. -Sega, Creative Assembly announce new Alien game. -5th Cell, creator of Scribblenauts, bump b
A California teacher is creating a new line of kid’s blocks on Kickstarter. Check ‘em out. I will create an original line of children’s building blocks made from salvaged wood. My goal is to educate children about where the wood came from and where it was going (i.e. the landfill) if I had not recla
An Iowa State professor wants to muddy the waters on how we think about games being “good” or “bad” for kids. He says there are at least five dimensions on which video games can affect players simultaneously — amount of play, content of play, game context, structure of the game, and the mechanics o
Where you and I might see bunkers in Space Invaders, Ernest Harris, Jr. sees ecological warfare. The Canadian artist takes a twist with LEGO pieces on the classic Atari game for an art show on sustainability: “In the context of notions of sustainability, these shelters function as metaphors for the