15 years of the best of game-based arts and culture

Poly-fantastic skating game Zenith makes motion a pleasure.

Augmenting reality, whether it’s through portals, free running, or controlling gravity, is a videogame specialty. A group of Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute students take advantage of the thrill of speed in their skating game, Zineth. Their trailer makes all the skating look easy, but there is a te

I never thought I’d play a board game about competitive eating.

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 our favorite games of 2011, Bastion, storms onto iPad.

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

iOS base-jumping classic AaaaaAAaaaAAAaaAAAAaAAAAA!!! is 99 cents today.

Adventure Time 3DS game loot to include salt and ketchup.

There’s some new screenshots out for the upcoming 3DS/DS game Adventure Time: Hey Ice King! Why’d You Steal Our Garbage?, a game based on Pendleton Ward‘s TV series, which shows how BMO interfaces with the player. BMO also carries around loot like salt and ketchup, which are no doubt necessary for s

Experience an artist’s mindscape in ‘Bad Trip.’

How do you show someone what it means to be you? You could tell them, or write about your experiences alongside photos. Or if you’re Alan Kwan, you attach cameras to your glasses every day and turn the footage into houses in the virtual landscape of your mind. A recent graduate of the City Universit

It’s possible to make money from writing about videogames!?

Videogame journalism is tough to break into. Often other writers don’t want you to know about their favorite places to get published, or they simply assume you already know about them. There’s no point where your future income is set, and there are all kinds of weird tax laws when it comes to contra