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Cheat Sheet 4/10: DLC, Mass Effect 3, and RIP
Happy Tuesday! If you missed today in gaming news, fear not. Here is everything you need to know: A new legal settlement will require GameStop to warn customers about DLC and potentially refund them. The founder of Commodore passed away last Sunday at the age of 83. BioWare announced its official re
Here’s how the Kinect is finally going to give you the mech suit you always wanted.
Despite any potential for brilliance in its hardware, the Microsoft Kinect has often seemed to struggle under the weight of its own cultural ambitions (see the recent ambivalent response to Kinect Star Wars). But in transforming a legendarily complicated custom controller (pictured above) into a ser
How Ken Garland helped make Galt Toys a brand and franchise before there even were such things.
The Eye blog has some amazing images from Galt Toys today in recognition of a new exhibition of Ken Garland’s design work for the manufacturer. Speaking about the work, Garland sheds some light on how toy and game manufacturers began to see their products in terms of the unified design of a branded
Why do we need games to convince us to walk?
Today at Kill Screen Richard Clark asked if a alternate reality game centered on being chased by virtual zombies could finally inspire him to exercise (spoiler alert: it does, but not nearly as much as being single can). Turns out the existence of a mobile app this ridiculous might be a symptom of a
3-D models from games of yesteryear give a strange retro-future nod to the years to come.
Sci-Fi-O-Rama has an long and detailed look at the vector art of games from the late 80s to early 90s. That particular art-style seems both dated and futuristic and with all the talk about the “New Aesthetic,” it’s a thrilling nod to the creative, generative power of machines to both document what w
Will game designers face the same mania that cursed poets and writers?
For decades, the brooding creativity of poets and writers has run hand in hand with mania and depression. As David Dobbs points out in a reading of Jonah Lehrer’s Imagine, prominient British novelists and poets faced psychological illness: Nearly 40 percent of the successful creative people [researc
Why the U.S. government may soon start hacking consoles
What’s the latest way that terrorists may be communicating with each other? Apparently through their videogame consoles. While online games ofWorld of WarcraftandBattlefieldused to be the sole territory of aggressive gamers, homophobic middle schoolers, and all types of angry trolls, the Department
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