Interview
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
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
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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
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.
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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
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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
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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
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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.
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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
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
Does PETA have a point? We dug through our game library and found moments of animal cruelty both blatant and subtle.
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A few weeks ago during a trip back home I went to visit my old high school. Revisiting a place that so singularly defined my identity for a moment in time, I suddenly felt strangely out of place. I scanned my surroundings restlessly until I could lock on to something old and familiar—the office of m