And here’s this afternoon’s wrap-up of the day’s gaming news. – Double Fine’s Tim Schafer used Kickstarter to pitch the world on a new adventure game. In an extremely cool showing of fan support and loyalty, they exceeded the $400,000 goal overnight. – Skyrim has hit patch 1.4. But in some even cool
A new study conducted by the Archives of Neurology suggests that playing games (the “brain stimulating” kind, mind you) might “improve your memory and delay or prevent the onset of Alzheimer’s disease,” lending casual game lovers an impassioned defense: …scientist are finding that many games requiri
Alongside recent fears over the legal ownership of digital goods (like games purchased on Steam), games lawyer Jas Purewal asks another potentially alarming question: forget about whether or not we “own” the games we purchase with stringent DRM, do we even own the things we buy within the game itsel
Yesterday, Tim Schafer’s Double Fine Productions unveiled a Kickstarter page to fund its upcoming project, dubbed “Double Fine Adventure.” The goal was to raise $400,000 over a month to fund development for its new point-and-click adventure game. Less than 18 hours later, the project has raised well
Foxconn, a tech manufacturer in Taiwan, is hoping so at least. In the face of very grave labor conditions that have caused strikes and on-the-job-suicides, the company plans to replace many of its assembly-line workers with robots, while transitioning many of its 1.2 million employees into departmen
What does a claw game have in common with last year’s acclaimed JRPG Dark Souls? Well ok, maybe not all that much, but one thing the two games undeniably share is their legendary difficulty. But when does difficulty transition from a design flaw (as many detractors of arcade-style games call their a
Here’s some mainstream gaming news you might have missed while you were asleep. -The Playstation Vita store is now online. -Despite recent hacks of various users’ accounts, Microsoft says that Xbox Live has not been hacked. -The folks at Bethesda have been working on Skyrim mods, including dragon mo
There’s still a lot of cultural baggage that comes with pro gaming. Despite being a multi-million dollar enterprise with tons of sponsership and viewers, there’s still an association with gamers living in their parents basement and playing videogames all day. ESPN recently interviewed a few pro game