Enjoy some post-Labor Day mainstream videogame news! –New FAQ reveals Diablo III beta details. -Sony’s SVP of public relations Rob Dyer accuses Microsoft of using an exclusivity stipulation to protect “an inferior product.“ -Check out Yoshinori Ono on the future of fighting games and more. –Dragon
Making Systems Checking More Fun Hacking a system may be analogous to a would-be thief looking for an open window, but its reality looks pretty different. Trying different command codes (and I’m guessing on vocab here) to obtain entry goes through a process of using language to unlock a system buil
Depending on who you ask, Minecraft is either one of the most awesome or most annoying games in recent memory. On one hand, it’s more or less a virtual Lego set that, if you’ve got the time and creativity, gives you a digital palate upon which to get your Picasso on. On the other, it’s just a game w
If, just like me, you’re straddling the line of regular poverty and abject poverty, there’s nothing worse dropping sixty dollars on a game I end up playing three times, and then get frustrated with and repurpose as a drink coaster. It’s, like, the worst thing ever. I could have used that sixty bucks
Deep down, we all share an anxiety about technology taking over the world for the worse, from transhumanism in Deus Ex to the malicious artificial intelligence of Portal. But more and more we’ve been hearing of advanced technologies being utilized for compassionate, positive reasons. Such is the cas
