I Can Haz You?
If dog is man’s best friend, what are cats? Humans have grappled with the creatures since the beginning; and as videogames show, we are still circling each other warily.
Yannick Lejacq
Interview: Mass Effect 3 writer Mac Walters discusses the challenges of interactive narrative and his love of Downton Abbey.
I’m going to admit something here. I really don’t like Star Wars. Here’s the thing: There are certain stories that work well as videogames, just as there are stories that work well as movies or films. Space operas, with their seemingly infinite room for expansion, endless idiosyncratic planets and f
Our Kinects are watching us. But not in the way you think.
By all accounts the Kinect is a pretty fascinating doohickey. Like all new and innovative gadgets, it has received its fair share of paranoid critiques about how it may soon be able to read your mind or control your house. While a lot of these are most likely improbable incarnations of science ficti
A sleep-monitoring headband is even turning our ZZZs into a very strange game.
Gamification has made many a game designer, game-player, and anyone with less than a flair for business recoil in horror in one way or another. Quantifying and measuring degrees of efficiency and success, a natural behavior of governments, bureaucracies, and companies often seems strange to anyone o
Soon gamers won’t just be wrestling with their controllers. The controllers will be fighting back.
“Button-mashing” used to be entirely a matter of player skill meeting the impossible difficulty of a game, ultimately ending with the controller being hurled at the screen in frustration. Engineers from the University of Utah are taking the concept to the next level with a new videogame controller.