Retro gamers will be familiar with the following cycle: you order a game online, you wistfully remember how awesome it was, the package arrives, and you have no desire to play it. This happened to me last time I stopped at GoG and bought Dungeon Keeper. Damien McFerran describes the problem at Eurog
The webcomic Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal retells Pac-Man in the mode of surrealist existential horror.
Everyone knows that there aren’t enough games set in a post-apocalyptic world inhabited by fish people. That all changes with Sealark, a kind of varation on Harvest Moon, with daily fishing taking the place of farming. Expect it in July 2013.
Confession: I am a huge fan of simulation games. There’s something about building up my stats over time and then being able to win the harvest cooking contest that I love. It’s kind of a niche genre, so I was a little surprised to see Enchant U, a stat-building wizard boarding school simulation for
As Nintendo rolls out its newest console, the Wii U, I’m left wondering why I need another console. There are plenty of games I haven’t yet played for my current consoles, and if fancy processing power is really necessary for fun I have a PS3 and a PC. Tom Auxier feels the same. Why do we need more
You know that frustrating moment, when you’ve tried everything that makes sense in a game, and then you keep trying it? According to some research on insight, that is probably the best time to take a break. Here’s an example of the sorts of problems the study examined: Move any single line from the
Is your living room feeling a bit empty? You might need to make some kind of Pokemon plushie, like this DeviantART user did. It’s life size!
The LEGO games are really cute, fun, and you can play them with your nephews without worrying about blood going everywhere. But it can be tiresome to get tracked onto the rails of each linear level. The upcoming LEGO Lord of the Rings promises an open world and a crafting system. True to the LEGO ga