Happy Monday! Here’s your mainstream videogame news roundup: – Bandai augments reality with its upcoming AR card game for iOS. -It’s Twitter-confirmed: UK dev 4J Studios is taking the helm for Minecraft for Xbox 360. -Warm your thumbs up for ThinkGeek’s new arcade stick for iPhone. -Twisted Pixel
What is the meaning of collecting strategy guides? What does the habit tell us about the games—and other things—we value? Emily Flynn-Jones describes the magic of collection.
It’s that time of year again. Get ready to whip out your shorts, sunhats and SPF 30. It’s also time for street games: Come Out and Play, the annual event committed to providing participants with in-real-life gaming experiences, hits New York City this Sunday —and will be hosting a different game (or
It’s common territory for sci-fi writers: what happens when computers finally learn to feel? A panel of industry professionals, including composer Mike Reagan (God of War), met at California bookstore Dark Delicacies to discuss the future of videogame composers, and what changes in technology might
Meet the members of Two Player Productions (2PP), makers of the upcoming documentary Minecraft: The Story of Mojang. Director of photography Asif Siddiky spoke with David Daw of PCWorld about the origins of the doc, from it’s conception, to it’s time on Kickstarter, to its current production: Now t
Ars Technica’s Andrew Webster raises the compelling, if unexpected, argument that of all the indie publishers out there, Adult Swim may be the best. The reason? Adult Swim has managed to pool the wackiest, weirdest and most creative talent onto its site to bolster its site content, but without requi
Welcome your most beloved (or hated) arcade game to the future! This usb-powered Whack It cabinet runs on a timer while the “moles” light up. And it’s inexpensive, portable, and there’s no hammer required. No online, however. Sorry, champ. -Lana Polansky
Here’s your daily run-through of mainstream videogame news, on easy mode! -Former Deus Ex writer Sheldon Pacotti’s upcoming game gets microscopic. -John Dillinger’s descendants fought EA over the use of their name, and EA won. -Sony wasn’t exactly forthright at the beginning of the PSN fiasco. –F
Get ready for another mainstream videogame news speedrun! –Angry Birds upcoming features to make use of creepy smartphone location-based info. -Hacker group LulzSec attacks Minecraft, EVE Online and The Escapist (and they aren’t done). -Zynga goes green, opens its European HQ in Dublin, Ireland.
Imagine Southeast Public Charter School in Congress Heights, one of the poorest areas in Washington, welcomed over 500 volunteers today (including Michelle Obama and Secretary of Education Arne Duncan) to mobilize for a great cause: building a playground for local kids. KaBOOM!, the non-profit organ
Sounds like it was a laugh a minute at the Webbys this year: “Person of the year, ironic,” a computerised voice speaking for the machine said while receiving a Webby from show host actress Lisa Kudrow, who suggested the machine jazz up its image by dating an iPad. “That was clever,” Kudrow retorted.
Researchers at North Carolina University have been studying Warcraft player behavior and think they’re able to “predict what a player in a game will do based on his or her previous behavior, with up to 80 percent accuracy.” This can obviously be a boon for game developers, but remember what happened
Your daily mainstream videogame news, made easier to swallow! -The War of the Worlds game needed epic voice acting: Patrick Stewart made it so. –Gears of War design director Cliff Bleszinski crushes our dreams of the franchise ever coming to the PS3. – Double Fine employees tweet happily about re
Earlier this month a teaser for the feature-length Starcraft II documentary, My Life for Aiur, was released. The film, whose title borrows its name from the game’s contested Protoss planet rich in biodiverse minerals, follows the massive subculture surrounding one of the world’s most popular online
This is from two weeks ago, but still quite neat. Kotaku looked at the roots of Pokemon through the lens of creator Satoshi Tajiri. Of note, the games “catch ‘em all” ethos stems from Tajiri’s particular psychological diagnosis: If that sounds a little…different, that’s because Tajiri is unlike most
-Zynga ‘throws bodies at problems, not thought.” –Homefront developer Kaos dries up. –Minecraft sales top 2.5 million. –Metal Gear Solid creator Hideo Kojima unloads on the original Metal Gear for NES. -Videogame sales dip to record lows in May. -A wild Galaga 30th Edition appears. –Cut the Rope tak
