While we were thinking about how post-release developer layoffs may do more harm than good, Zynga was busy laying off most of their Austin-based studio. Ian Miles Cheong at Gameranx has the gorey details: We are told that the employees were given less than two hours to clear out their desks followin
The Internet contains too much information for any individual to read it all. One approach to this problem is to go on a “raw” information diet of reading actual bills in Congress and original scientific papers. It’s… an interesting idea rooted in the local slow food movement, and strikes me as kind
It’s bad enough that Zynga clones games to make their money. But something about making those videogames into board games just makes me MAD. Reyhan Harmanci at BuzzFeed has the complete list of atrocities. Below are Words With Friends and CityVille Monopoly. Just buy Scrabble, people!
My husband played all the Zelda games growing up, and when I bought him Skyward Sword I thought he’d love it. But he didn’t get very far, noting that “I feel like I’ve played this before.” For him, the pleasure of a Zelda game was not just figuring out what the game wanted, but exploring a world ful
Good Old Games (GOG) decided to make digital downloads analog. Take a look at “the GOGBook,” which is “literally as fast as light.” Okay, so this was a joke to promote the fact that GOG is selling games for the Mac now, but it was a good one.
This quiz game gives you the name of a cheese or a font and asks you to discern which one it is. It’s a fun way to realize that the two are weirdly similar. If you do well, you’re probably some kind of cheese or font snob, or both. It’s okay, we still like you.
Howard Phillips, of Howard & Nestor fame, has started a Kickstarter for an educational game that distracts you from learning. Basically, image and audio are paired in tiles that players have to match up for score combos. The distraction of figuring out how to get a high score makes it seem like you’
It’s time to break out your DS flash cart or emulator and play the homebrew ghost story Pokémon (Creepy) Black. You could read most of it here, but I found it far more creepy using the DS game retelling. In true ghost story tradition, the game’s gradual unfolding is part of what makes it creepy, so