We’re not sure what came first — the name Jersey Shouroboros – or the concept of a giant snake eating the cast of the recently-cancelled Jersey Shore and then eating its own tail. Either way, Robert Yang’s crowd favorite from this year’s Global Game Jam is the stuff of nightmares. Humor is difficult
Artist Joseph DeLappe (who we covered in our No Fun issue) has an odd and XL take on the modern shooter. If you remember, EA found themselves in hot water two years ago when they initially intended to allow players to control Taliban soldiers in multi-player. They (obviously) changed their mind. DeL
Austin’s Fantastic Fest adds an annual game jam to their programming. This year’s theme will be Pendelton Ward’s Adventure Time.
Wired on how Sony almost made a 2D console.
Flavorwire compiled a list of “ruin porn” images of abandoned video stores. Remember when you could rent a Super Nintendo? Yeah, I don’t miss that at all. Blockbuster Video – New Orleans, Louisiana Credit: Alex Gaidouk – – – Blockbuster Video – Adelaide, Australia Credit: Ryan Smith
I’ve spent a lot of time in outer space. Not me personally, of course, but, me, the other me. The controller-toting me that’s explored the vast distances of the cosmos. For the history of mankind, we’ve dreamed of flight and looked at the moon with wonder. Then there was the space program and now p
Last week, Harvard announced that “unprecedented” levels of cheating had taken place in a government course and the university would investigate more than 100 students. (Students cheat, regardless of their supposed intelligence. In fact, that this story made dozens of national outlets only furthers
You finally have an excuse for Nintendogs if you’re not a ten-year-old. You’re welcome.
Simogo, the Swedish game design duo who made one of fave iOS titles, Beat Sneak Bandit, have taken a turn for the dark side. Their teaser trailer is completely confusing, but in terms of capturing the ambience (um, the point of a trailer), they’re spot-on with the tone. – – – More from Simogo: In th
Founder of one-man shop Oh My! Me Studios and creator of “hand-crafted video games,” Ken Amarit sent us a note about his new iOS title Voyager. If you were looking for a reason to reach-out to your grandmother, this would be it. Amarit used a needle and wool to construct the game’s elements and then
At this year’s No Quarter exhibition at NYU, amongst the flashier digital entries, Zach Gage debuted one of the strangest card games I’d ever seen. Titled Guts of Glory, it was turn-based eat em’ up that has you channeling the carnal powers of appetite to outconsume your opponents. At the time, it w
One of the more frustrating pieces of recommending games to friends is the not-so-stunning realization that not everyone has every major game console, tablet, and so forth on the market. So when a game like Bastion strolls along, telling friends about it is not nearly enough. You want them to play i
This is the best part: This simulator calculates the heat transfer from the pan to the meat or vegetables that are being cooked, and displays the visible changes caused by heating. The fry pan interface allows for three dimensional input, and as well as moving the fry pan to aid the cooking process,
Over at the New Yorker, Reeves Wiedemann laments the loss of Nintendo Power which served his adolescence the same illicit joys as Hustler. (His analogy, not mine.) It’s by far my favorite eulogy for the advertisement rag that doubled as “journalism” and a reminder of the immense cultural sway that N
Feeling bummed about the future of games? It happens. But here’s your daily dose of inspiration. Kickstarter is headed to PAX Prime this year and put together a reel of clips from some of their favorite campaign videos (including us!). While it’s simply an announcement of their booth presence, it al
In honor (?) of the demise of Nintendo Power, Slate republished a list of their favorite fanmail. The list was originally published when Slate was using Tripod which is a novelty in its own right, but the stories, oh the stories, of people with their Nintendo devices demonstrates how powerful Ninten
The roll-out of the NikeFuel band was one of the biggest marketing pushes from the last year. Nike spared no expense for non-traditional approaches. That includes this magical digital version of Pong released in Japan.
This post is part of a content series presented in partnership with smartwater. smartwater, simplicity is delicious. Have you ever wondered how people play on the other side of the world from you? Are the attachments that drew you to games that same ones that might draw another person to theirs? Is
It’s here! The last game from our Soundplay project with Pitchfork and Intel comes to life this week. Built by Aussie developer Pachinko Pictures, it’s a simple tale of beetle that dreams to be a frog that dreams to be a chicken that dreams to be… You get the idea. Play it here! More on the team: Pa
Everything old is new again. This Christmas season, you’ll be able to get your hands on a new/old/newold Neo Geo console that features a station, a handheld (with 20 games) and a joystick. That means you’ll be able to play Metal Slug and King of Fighters and not feeling of the attendant guilt for do
The Tribeca Film Institute asked me to moderate a panel at the Tribeca Film Festival on games as a form of interactive story-telling. It’s not surprising that the things that game designers know, the public does not, and my fellow panelists, Margaret Robertson, Development Director at Hide & Seek,
Someone took to Quora to ask how Zynga employees were dealing with the social giant’s poor stock performance. An anonymous employee penned a heartfelt response: People willing to play the politics game were given ‘rockstar’ status, quarterly bonuses and promotions. Project direction and goals shifte
This post is part of a content series presented in partnership with smartwater. smartwater, simplicity is delicious. Jane McGonigal’s 2011 best-selling book Reality is Broken inspired a young generation of game-players to think more broadly about the impact that their controller-wielding lives had
Our favorite abuse-by-design gamemaker Bennett Foddy has released a new game: CLOP. Here’s the synopsis. You are magical unicorn and you must retrieve a virgin from afar. The only problem — your legs don’t quite work the way they should. Also, do unicorns make horse noises? We’re not sure.
