video Like many shooter heroes Halo‘s Master Chief seldom speaks. Conventional wisdom says the absence of a specific voice makes it easier to identify with the hero, projecting parts of ourselves into the game. During a short video demonstration of Halo 4 at E3, Master Chief again breaks this genre
That tingling in your left eyelid was indeed a psychosomatic reminder that Apple would announce new products today. -Apple announces new laptops, including much-rumored retina display Macbook Pro. -Magazine scans show Call of Duty: Black Ops 2 planned for Wii U. -Peter Molyneux discusses projects to
video The Pikmin games were always proof that, when presented with the right amount of colorful cheer, the most horrifically sad acts can be digested as easily as candy. The E3 demo of Pikmin 3 carries on in this tradition with a game about a helpless protagonist who’s only path off an alien planet
video When The Last of Us was announced, creative director and writer Neil Druckmann described the game as “a love story about a father-daughter-like relationship.” This particular love story takes place in the apocalyptic aftermath of a zombie outbreak that has turned the human survivors into merci
video It’s sometimes argued that the higher the difficulty the purer the experience of a game. Normal difficulty settings are like a guided tour of a game’s locations and set pieces, requiring only a transient understanding of a its central mechanics. In a presentation at E3, Epic and developer Peop
video In the 1980s videogame advocates answered criticisms with claims of improved hand-eye coordination. No one was actually playing games to become more coordinated, but the possibility of some marginal benefit was a convenient tool to defuse skeptics. When Nintendo released the first Wii Fit in 2
Another day passed without contact from alien life. However, we did receive these signs of life from the videogame realm. –Samsung partners with Gaikai for gaming in the cloud. –DOOM creator John Carmack discusses the dream of virtual reality. -Unreal Engine 4 broken down. –God of War creator David
video The juxtapositions one finds at E3 are a marvel. On the one hand you have perfectly tame things like Micrsoft’s new music streaming service, and on the other hand there is an ocean of explosions, executions, and non-sequitur dustep. Jarosh Barkdale has done a fine job capturing this bizarrenes