Videogame journalism is tough to break into. Often other writers don’t want you to know about their favorite places to get published, or they simply assume you already know about them. There’s no point where your future income is set, and there are all kinds of weird tax laws when it comes to contra
Tired of boring website layouts? This website for the East India techno-fest, Concetto, lets you play Mario to navigate between pages. Jumping to hit a block scrolls through photos of past events, and caves of pipes take you to various sub-pages. Fun for a first-time visit, but probably kind of a pa
Videogame fans are growing up, and we aren’t always satisfied with a five-dollar poster anymore. While there are plenty of prints and figures for the fan with a little more money, some prove their love of videogames with long hours of labor. Eponases made this cross stitch of all original 151 Pokémo
The new art style for the still-in-beta game SpyParty is a paragon of taste. SpyParty is a game where you must hide in plain sight and engage in psychological sleuthing to figure out who the other spies are. It also involves massive amounts of meta-gaming and high-level brain manipulation on the le
Google has been making its own trendy, well-designed publication with Think Quarterly. Designed by the Church of London, the current issue, The Play Issue, recalls another, similarly-named issue of a quarterly publication. Their article on Disney’s “Imagineering” shows former LucasArts designer Jona
This bipedal robot, called PETMAN, was developed by Boston Dynamics for the US Army to test chemical protection clothing (which is often very thick, so being able to move in it is a problem). Boston Dynamics put a demonstration video on YouTube, and then Tim Trusler put it to music. It’s kind of cut
Dwarf Fortress is notoriously difficult to learn how to play, and also incredibly detailed. The dwarves you order around can go insane or lose limbs. Individual trees have unique names, though the ASCII-like art makes it hard to tell what’s going on for the uninitiated. One game with a similar feel
The Scrabble dictionary is full of odd words that seem poised to give players excellent triple word scores. Often, these words are archaic forms or thrown in to make two-letter combos more exciting. Part of the game of Scrabble, in competitive play, is memorizing which words are allowed in tournamen