The Vita game library is still small, so Dokuro, out for download today, is a welcome addition. As a little skull man, you lead a princess across obstacles by arranging things just so. The game’s visuals are inspired by storybook illustrations. Before the development team had even begun work on Doko
State of Play is a series of interviews with videogame professionals. Their most recent interview with Edmund McMillen of Super Meat Boy fame shows him reflecting on Indie Game: The Movie: how he had to distance himself from fans, and the necessity of creative production for his mental health.
The Indie Royale Fall bundle offers a chance to play five great games for a meager price. It includes To the Moon, which has some of the best sci-fi storytelling in a game I’ve seen recently, as well as the lauded adventure game The Blackwell Deception. The bundle also offers the adorable god-game R
Someone asked Financial Times columnist Lucy Kellaway to judge the GameCity prize for videogames. She agreed, as a way to get in touch with her sons. She found the experience of playing videogames for the first time frustrating and baffling. Her experience playing Fez: This was developed by a young
Jason Johnson briefly interviewed legendary indie developer Jason Rohrer over at Paste. They covered the Diamond Trust of London debacle, how Rohrer lives off of $14,000 a year, and how he considered making a devilish version of Passage 2 to profit off of. Passage 2 would make a lot of money. That’s
Look, this is a PSA for gamers who are trolls, and we know you’re out there. Internet trolls are rude, but do they have cultural value? Whitney Phillips, who wrote her dissertation on trolls, argues that the Internet bullies are telling of aspects of Internet culture. Trolls are cultural scavengers
Two-player games usually give each player their own controller space. But sometimes you want to fight over control, like in Michael Brough’s iPad game O, which looks like air hockey with many colored pucks. Balls appear on the screen in three colours. You score points by collecting a sequence of bal
It seems completely unecessary to make an orchestral version, since the synths were my favorite part, but this sneak peak of an upcoming orchestrated Fez soundtrack has me thinking it shouldn’t be too bad.