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Playtime with TimePlay, the horrible pre-movie advertising game
How movie ads have merged with games.
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Arm wrestle burly fish in this adaptation of Hemingway’s philosophy of manhood
If you’ve never read Ernest Hemingway’s 1952 novel The Old Man and the Sea there is now an abridged version in which you arm wrestle a marlin. It’s a videogame with the superb title of The Old Man Club, which not only refers back to the novel’s title, but may also allude to a critique of those who h
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Journey’s greatest gift to videogames was telling us all to shut up
Journey returns to PS4, and with it, the gift of quiet
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The Last of Us soundtrack is getting the beautiful vinyl LP it always needed
“Whoa. Look at this place!” Ellie says as you walk through the doorway, into an old record store. You’re on your way to Bill’s hideout and this abandoned town is the first place that lets you truly grasp Ellie’s alienation from our own world. It’s not that she just doesn’t listen to records. She’s n
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The Iñupiat’s voice in videogames continues with Never Alone’s upcoming DLC
Foxtales takes Nuna and Fox on a nautical journey up the Noatak River.
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FIFA 16 is slowly discovering the existence of women’s soccer
Alex Morgan will be the first woman to appear on a FIFA cover.
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Videogame based on Moby Dick lets you wreak havoc as the white whale
Header image: Poster for 1976 theatrical re-release of Moby Dick. /// After Captain Ahab’s whaling ship, the Pequod, has been destroyed by the white whale he’s been hunting across the globe in the final scenes of Herman Melville’s classic novel Moby Dick, he says the following: “Towards thee I roll
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Canada’s Manifest Destiny: the game
Videogames are just as powerful at distorting history as preserving it.
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Profiles of the Forgotten is "a videogame within a movie"
“Have you ever loved someone so much, that you could step out of time?” These are the words that introduce Profiles of the Forgotten, a project that lies somewhere between a traditional game and a film. The first project by Los Angeles developer Pablo Leon-Luna, Profiles of the Forgotten is describe
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Everybody’s Gone to the Rapture and a More Human Kind of Apocalypse
We talk to Dan Pinchbeck about his upcoming jaunt through the apocalypse.
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Stephen Colbert’s weird Twine game may double as a map to late night comedy
Letterman to the left, Corden to the right, Colbert seems to be stuck in the middle.
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Point-and-click your way through the rotting aftermath of a divorce
“It’s about divorce,” reads Gary Butterfield’s blunt description of his short-story-turned-videogame Early Frost Warning. You know it’s going to be a glum playthrough, but 10 minutes in and you’re thinking: c’mon Horace, a broken boy in your bed and now your face is all red and balding? Sheesh, man,