On the frontlines of the coming backlash against VR
Think of the children.
Tommy Rousse
The power and the glory of Samurai Gunn
Teknopants delivers a deathmatch of the decisive moment.
You are the center of attention in Tom Russotti’s Opener
We investigate a new sport for art’s sake in Copenhagen.
Will Love Tear Us Apart? You already know the answer.
Playing through Joy Division’s relationship death spiral
Rymdkapsel will make you fall in love with pixels…by sacrificing them
The Malmö-based Martin Jonasson takes a run at space strategy with style, grace, and brutality.
QWOP creator declares: Jocks and gamers. Together at last.
Stalking the halls at the Game Developer’s Conference 2013 this week gave me plenty of data to test against Bennett Foddy’s sharp talk on videogames’ failure to learn from the lessons that sports mastered thousands of years ago. The expo floor is packed with games struggling to put themselves on di
"The process, not the product": A conversation with Doug Wilson
The co-creator of J.S. Joust and Dark Room Sex Game talks to our correspondent about game jams.
Looking to start the next Facebook? Try playing Civilization.
With Facebook’s IPO due in the next week or so, founding geek and CEO Mark Zuckerberg is about to make so much money he’ll be able to swim around in it like Scrooge McDuck. We’re talking enough money for the pit full of gold coins (naturally), but also enough to fund the ground-breaking physics rese
Chewing the Cud
Can poetry handle Ian Bogost? Can gaming handle poetry? Tommy Rousse takes up the joystick and puts on his literature goggles to decipher A Slow Year, Bogost’s collection of game poems.
U.S. Rep. Joe Baca undeterred by videogames’ First Amendment protection
Videogaming has a cycle of ebbs and flows—there’s a season for a slew of high-profile games for the holidays, a season for late-summer doldrums sprinkled with arcade and indie offerings, and a season for U.S. Representative Joe Baca, Democrat of California’s 43rd District, to introduce unconstitutio
Gaming’s Newest Grind
When boundaries were pushed at this year’s Nordic Game Jam, it was in all senses: technological, creative, and personal. Thomas Rousse followed the two-day development of Awkward Tarzan Grinding Game and found its tangle of dongles and vines anything but.
Not New Enough: Brown v. EMA
The Supreme Court’s ruling in Brown v. EMA, that videogames should receive the same First Amendment protection as other media, was well received by gamers and the games industry. But the details of the case point to less-encouraging historical precedents and implications for future considerations of