Review
In Diablo III, Hell is Other Demons.
Twelve years have passed, and once again Blizzard is inviting players to revisit Hell in Diablo III. We brave the journey and wonder what has changed since we last made this trek.
Yannick Lejacq
Interview
A Father’s Bottle, A Child’s Pain, and A Grown Man’s Memory
How did Vander Caballero, the youngest member of a wealthy South American family, deal with a childhood littered with alchoholism and abuse? He created the world of Papo y Yo, an upcoming PSN puzzler in the form of autobiography set in a favela.
News
Diablo III: Inside the Game.
Almost twenty years ago, a game developer just getting its first real taste of success released an innovative and darkly beautiful game with a simple premise: click on monsters until they die. Collect the weapons and money they drop. Use this to improve yourself. Then, go on to kill more monsters un
News
Cheat Sheet 5/9: Bioshock Infinite delayed, Insomniac’s next project, and Happy One Billion, Angry Birds.
In case you missed it: BIoshock Infinite was delayed until February 2013. Insomniac announced its new project, Outernauts. BioWare lost some subscribers from Star Wars: The Old Republic. Watch out, Call of Duty. Angry Birds just reached the one billion mark. Dead Space 3 will feature co-op. See you
Review
Trapped in a Cage
What makes the structure of a game stay intact? We play Assassin’s Creed: Revelations and find a lot of hidden walls—some more apparent than others.
News
This week in holograms: Microsoft’s MirageTable will let you play virtual chess in real life.
video Microsoft recently unveiled some new technology that may bring you one step closer to having that holodeck you’ve always wanted: The MirageTable uses a 3D-video projector to beam images onto a sheet of curved white plastic placed in front of the user. At each end one of Microsoft’s Kinect dept
News
When did art begin? For some answers, look to Egypt.
The debate about when art was “invented” is a daunting question for students trained in the method of historical geneology. But looking at some extremely ancient objects from pre-dynastic Egypt, Jerry Saltz poses an interesting possibility: maybe the conception that art was simply to be “observed” i
News
How the Kinect might soon be able to detect child autism.
Continuing in the long line of creative applications of the Microsoft Kinect, researchers are developing a new medical application for the device: As part of an experiment at the University of Minnesota’s Institute of Child Development, Sapiro and Papanikolopoulos set up a series of five Microsoft K
News
Cheat Sheet 5/8: Portal 2 Sales, Tony Hawk HD, and Assassin’s Creed 3
Tuesday in bullet-point form: Portal 2 sales topped 4 million. Tony Hawk’s Pro Skater HD is coming this June. Alan Wake’s American Nightmare is coming to Steam. Check out this new Assassin’s Creed 3 trailer. Starhawk is here. That’s all for now! See you on the morrow.
News
PAUSE: Watch this amazing Diablo III short from the creators of Metalocalypse and Aeon Flux.
video Like any self-respecting Blizzard game, Diablo IIIhas a massive amount of lore traditionally left out of the primary gameplay experience. To get some of the backstory of how Tristram got embroiled in this whole mess with the devil, check out this wonderful short film from Titmouse, the animati
Essay
Grounds for Play
Why are playgrounds still so important in the digital age? We talk with some of New York’s leading playground architects and designers about their work and the past and future impact of public play on urban space.
Article
Killing Animals
Does PETA have a point? We dug through our game library and found moments of animal cruelty both blatant and subtle.