Who should set the price of a game? It seems intuitive that the group creating a work should have the right to sell it for whatever price they feel is fair. Yet in many cases the price of a game depends on the platform its sold through more than the desires of its creators. A group of developers ha
video In preparation for E3, Ubisoft released a video showing how much work has gone into the demo of Assassin’s Creed 3 that will debut at the show. “We’re right at the apex of excitement and terror,” Creative Director Alex Hutchinson said. Philippe Bergeron, AC3‘s Mission Director, added, “We’re s
Among the many wonders of the internet, one of the most characteristic is the contrast between story and reader. With anonymous comments seemingly straight-forward and inoffensive stories can turn into lightning rods for misogyny, antagonism, and ad hominem slurs. The internet has provided a tool fo
Before you can do something great, you must first do something. Dr. Phillip Zimbardo seems to have reverse this aphorism, having done something great very early in 1971 when he led the Stanford prison experiment, a monumental example of how powerfully affected by environmental context human morality
video “It’s better than Plato’s Allegory of the Cave,” Double Fine’s Tim Schafer said of his company’s newest game, The Cave. “Actually it’s better than Plato.” Would that it were so. The Cave, which is designed by Monkey Isalnd creator Ron Gilbert and was just announced by SEGA for release in earl
Josh Trank has just been hired to direct the upcoming film adaptation of Fumito Ueda’s Shadow of the Colossus. Trank’s made his directorial debut earlier this year with Chronicle, a brooding look at what would happen if a group of alienated teenagers actually got super powers. Hint: they didn’t try
The idea of measurable IQs is taken-for-granted these days, but an emerging body of research is shedding new light on different kinds of intelligence a person can have. Dylan Evans studies “risk quotient” intelligence, a way of thinking about probabilities that, it turns out, most people are exceedi
Nobody loves XCOM anymore. The game was once talked about with reverent nostalgia, either one of the best games ever made, or literally, the best. As is often the case with videogame claim-making, the impassioned words meant very little. The conclusion is clear enough but the logic behind it seems a