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Quinn Pitcock was an All-American defensive lineman at Ohio State and a third round draft pick by the Indianapolis Colts in 2007. Despite the early promise of his athletic career, he developed an addiction to Call of Duty: Modern Warfare‘s online multiplayer mode, which contributed to his decision t
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Videogames are beset with rumors and speculation about what secret mysteries developers are holding back. The process of keeping secrets, and determining what should and shouldn’t be a part of public record, is murky and haphazard. Writing in a Quora thread about how Apple keeps its secrets from sli
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In another example of people finding interesting uses for Kinect outside of games computer scientists at the University of Virginia in Charlottesville have created a program that uses the camera to keep track of household objects. Shahriar Nirjon and colleague John Stankovic use Kinect cameras in ea
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video Neal Stephenson has long been an influential figure in videogame culture, from popularizing the use of the word “avatar” in Snowcrash to imagining a geologically distributed gold economy in an MMO with his most recent novel Reamde. Stephenson is finally ready to make a game of his own and he’s
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Though videogames trade in fun and playfulness, the conditions under which they’re made can often be grueling. Earlier this year, Yoshinori Ono, Capcom’s producer in charge of Street Fighter IV, collapsed from exhaustion and was rushed to the hospital. Speaking to Simon Parkin in an interview at Eur
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video At E3 Shigeru Miyamoto suggested a full Legend of Zelda game for Wii U won’t be coming anytime soon. The company did, however, show a smaller Zelda game built into NintendoLand, The Legend of Zelda: Battle Quest. The game is a strange hybrid of classic Zelda mechanics combined with Nintendo’s
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video Carrying boxes has become a videogame staple. It’s a chore in Zelda games, a satiric puzzle in Portal, and in Far Cry 3‘s co-op mode it seems to become almost slapstick. The 4-player co-op demo on show at E3 involved a multi-step mission where players stalked through a jungle, ambushed an enem
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video The Alien movies have become a semi-permanent part of western pop culture. H.R. Geiger’s slimy mouth-within-a-mouth designs, the idea that androids bleed white, and the suspicion that a feverish stomach ache is precursor to a little creature clawing its way out of someone’s chest cavity–these
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We have it on good authority the following news stories, when translated into binary code, contain a star map to god. Read at your own risk. -Miyamoto says 3DS is good just the way it is, research has begun on next generation handheld. –Indie Game: The Movie out now. -Blizzard reveals new units for
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video It’s sometimes said that scarcity is what gives a thing value. Super Mario Bros. levels offered a model of this balance between scarcity and value, both determined by the game’s designers. The 100 coin benchmark for achieving an extra life had such immediate meaning precisely because of the sc
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video In the push toward a kind of pure, rule-based understanding of what videogames really are, the sensory pleasures of being in another place are often treated as secondary experiences. Yet, for many the experience of simply being somewhere can be as powerful as the experience of winning at somet
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Though we have become overfamiliar with the terms, it truly bizarre to think of elections as something a person can win or lose. The process of determining how to organize and execute national bureaucracy has become another vessel into which we can pour our needs to be seen as good, great, or better