For those who’ve suffered from stroke, there may be new hope. A report in Stroke: Journal of the American Heart Association suggests that games can help patients regain arm strength. “Recent research indicates the brain has a remarkable potential for remodelling because after injury it shows neurop
Remember that Dead Island trailer for a couple weeks back? The one with the lilting strings? We’re not huge fans of hype around trailers, but if you haven’t watched this one, you should. Anyway, it was the handiwork of Icelandic composer Ólafur Arnalds, a eminently talented and tow-headed young man
We know there are many bad jobs in the world. (Major website videogame intern may be one of them, in fact.) Lapham’s Quarterly has gone ahead and done the legwork for the worst jobs ever created. These include such glorious distinctions Viking egg-collector, the poor people in Tokyo who push crowde
PAUSE: Sachin Teng.
An exemplar of pure dedication to military history or a love sacrifice to the God of War, Conflict History is exactly as it seems. (It’s Friday. We’re straightforward.) For Civilization nuts, this a perfect way to compare your plans of world domination to those of glorious yesterday. Scroll through
You love Streets of Rage, but there is a limit to your love. (Womp womp.) For a team of modders called Bomber Games, there’s no better way to build on a classic than to create an 103-level high rise of fan dedication and achievement known as Streets of Rage Remake. What was lost in titular creativit
Aaaand we’re one step closer to nano suits that will allow all who have been playing Crysis to show off the rippling sinews that we’ve been hiding for so long. “Nanotechnology allows a novel route to materials and structures that can be used to develop human-friendly devices with realistic functions
Residents’ Councils of Samaria and Binyamin, an advocacy group for religious settlers, recently commissioned a series of religious- and nationalistic-themed videogames. Israeli youth are the target audience and the group told Fast Company that they want “to reach the heart of the younger generation