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Why are we so afraid to walk?
A budding movement in games takes its first steps.
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Job Hunting Simulator has all the soul crushing reality of an actual job hunt
Great news, everyone! Unemployment is down to 5.1%, the lowest its been since 2008! The American dream is resuscitated, pumping a feeble yet confident fist up into the air. Well, except for millennials, that is, where unemployment is still at a resounding 13.8 % as of May 2015. Yeah, that’s right, i
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Dead End Road will conjure up the dread of late night driving
A couple years ago, I had a job that required me to work late. I’d have to drive home on the verge of midnight a few days a week, through an unlit part of town I wasn’t very familiar with. There were jackrabbits in the field by the office. I saw one alive once. More often I’d spot them at night afte
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Old people rejoice: Halo is slow again
Halo 5‘s arena mode is straight outta 2007.
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A videogame tribute to the action-comedy of Bud Spencer and Terence Hill
Bud Spencer and Terence Hill, the Italian movie stars known for three decades of action-comedy, always deserved a videogame. A classic Spencer and Hill scenario is a mass brawl, the pair squaring off against a jittering hive of incompetent opponents, each punch over-exaggerated in gesture and sound
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The Rise of Dating Sims for Women
A traditionally Japanese genre is learning how to spread its wings in the west.
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Someone Hire This Man
This is a story about a cheeky gambit that, by virtue of our covering it can only be said to have succeeded. So much for the journalist as a neutral force. But it’s a good, cheeky gambit, so let’s not get too bogged down in the observer effect. Seth van Heijster has created an interactive resume tha
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Revisiting the original, quietly revolutionary Assassin’s Creed
The original Assassin’s Creed had a radical agenda that later games forgot.
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Drake’s awkward "Hotline Bling" dancing is the ultimate in uncool as cool
Those goofy Hotline Bling moves show that “nerd culture” is now pop culture Drake, memes, and the art of being uncool
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What’s going on over at The Chinese Room?
A lot is going on at The Chinese Room at the moment. Perhaps not as much as before Everybody’s Gone to the Rapture was released, or necessarily more than any other studio out there, but what is going on is being documented in surprisingly personal and honest blogs. This is going to start off grim an
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Is Your Game able to Withstand a Tabletop Gamer?
Why board game players make great testers.
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Cards Against Urbanity lets you study and mock urban planning at the same time
The difference between Cards Against Humanity and the sort of flashcards used for revision is, I suppose, that the latter can come in a greater range of colours. Sure, “a cat video so cute your eyes roll back and your spine slides out your anus” is not the typical exam prompt, but the mechanics are