Absolute Drift seeks the breaking point for our cultural obsession with drifting
Would you rather drift in heaven or race in hell?
Even the bugs in The Witness look beautiful
They say that the last 20% of a project is 80% of the work. In game development, a lot of the time that means bug clean-up. But when it comes to a game as visually appealing as The Witness, Jonathan Blow’s upcoming first-person puzzle adventure, it turns out even the bugs are beautiful. According to
Tapeheads is the official movie of Millennials
The best description of the new generation arrived in 1988.
P.T. has been out a year and people are still uncovering its secrets
It’s been exactly a year since P.T. first graced the PlayStation Store as a playable teaser for Silent Hills. Since last August, the notorious demo has gone on to become a relic of a game that will never be, but also a strong standalone experience, and a reminder of what a little risk and creative f
Missed our last evening of musical duels? Tonight is your next chance
Join us in Manhattan to battle your friends and conquer tiny Russian towns.
New Rise of the Tomb Raider footage stars Lara Croft’s daddy issues
Finally, some tomb raiding for the Tomb Raider! The latest footage of Rise of the Tomb Raider direct from its presentation at Gamescom gave fans what they’ve been yearning for since the 2013 reboot: Lara Croft scaling crumbling walls in exotic, undiscovered locales like the good ol’ days when breast
Now we can all participate in the kitschy nightmares of Sonic fan art
Sonic is a gross island. His fans sit atop his belly and cast lines out into the vast pools of the internet, reeling in fetishes you’ve never heard of. The result is Sonic fan art: trashy Microsoft Paint sketches, dodgy amateur photoshops, and more creepy porn cross-overs than should ever be possibl
Soon anyone will be able to rev their computer up to light speed
Once the practice of enthusiasts, overclocking is becoming democratized.
Rod Humble talks Sims, A.I., and his new work at ToyTalk
The Second Life founder wants to create games we can truly talk to.
At last, a city-building game that allows for meaningful economic experimentation
We are all low-poly before God and the free market. Polynomics is about the latter case, though the distinction is far from precise. Slated for an initial release in early 2016, Polynomics is an economic simulator. You play as the federal government of an unnamed area, issuing a currency, collecting
The new King’s Quest looks to the past
King’s Quest shows the virtues and the limits of nostalgia.
MANOS: The Hands of Fate-The movie-based game we never knew we needed
Generally speaking, videogame adaptations of movies have got to be the lowest tier in the hierarchy of bad videogames. Whether we’re talking about Austin Powers Pinball, the infamous E.T. the Extraterrestrial on Atari or 2011’s Smurf Dance Party (which featured such musical gems as “Who Let the Smur
Neuro Fantasy is a lurid soundtrack experience with none of the bullsh*t
Direct your own piece of emergent cinema.
Breaking: Walking simulator features a "run" button
We were keen on Everybody’s Gone to the Rapture, the Chinese Room’s spiritual successor to Dear Esther and a furious, beautiful audio-visual experience. The game is literate, subtle, and adult, all qualities missing from a lot of the games we come across, even those that aspire to such descriptors.
New Cibele trailer is a taste of teen life at the beginning of the digital age
Being a teen during the rise of the internet was weird in too many ways to describe. While you were experiencing all manner of hormonal and bodily changes, the rest of the world was experiencing its own kind of tumultuous transformation. As you matured into young adulthood, attempting to navigate th
N++: Iteration, movement, and the screen
Not a throwback, but differently modern.
The quiet importance of the Minecraft soundtrack
C418’s soundtrack for Minecraft makes good on ambient music’s promises.
Fallout 3 is actually for babies
For those who play games at a steady—some would say glacial—pace, achievements become unmoored from the gameworld itself. They become associated with life events—I completed that level on my birthday and that other level the day before I got dumped. You age with a game, if not at its exact pace. Spe
These typewriters will mess with your mind
This is an article about typewriters, but let’s start by discussing the difference between taste and flavour. Taste describes the five senses inside your mouth: sweet, sour, salt, bitter, and umami. Flavour, on the other hand, connotes a more holistic sensory experience. It combines taste with your
Exploring the mysterious space of space station Tacoma
We talk to Fullbright’s Steve Gaynor about everything but his owl(?) tattoo.
Skyrim mod turns its highly-detailed fantasy world into a cartoon
Skyrim, the fifth installation of the long-running Elder Scrolls series, is known among other things for its intensive, high quality graphics and level of visual detail. Even then, it’s common for players on PC to install several graphical enhancement mods for even more realistic lighting, water, an
A conversation with Squinky about the conversations we have in our heads
Exploring identity through the conversations we have inside our head.
Beg for your life in this experimental game about execution
We’re used to the first-person shooter being a series of gunshots executed through bared teeth. Bang, bang, momentarily duck behind cover to heal, bang bang. That’s the usual rhythm. They’re shooting galleries that throw bodies of various intelligence and armor at us to shoot. There’s little thought
Reel in horror at Layers of Fear’s freakish twist on fine art
There’s something eerie about da Vinci’s Lady with an Ermine—that distant stare, the strangely serpentine choice of rodent, the utter darkness of the backdrop, perhaps? Even before the trailer for Layers of Fear transforms the subject of da Vinci’s portrait work into a skeletal atrocity gripping a s
Everybody’s Gone to the Rapture is a triumph
Say hello to the new wave of walking simulators.