Playlist 10/30 | Lakeview Cabin horrifies, Device 6 confounds, and Candy Box 2 is the sweetest game of the year (literally)
Horror and mystery and candy await.
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How Ubisoft is defying and embracing myth In Assassin’s Creed 4
We talk with lead writer Darby McDevitt and historical consultant Colin Woodard about bringing the 1700s to life.
Inside the failed, utopian New Games Movement
How a hippy commune prefigured the videogame community’s love of play.
Wind Waker, GTA V, and the beauty of the videogame selfie
A portrait of the gamer as an young girl.
Playlist 10/23: The Stanley Parable goes meta, Type:Rider takes us through letter history, and Kingdom gives us glory
Playlist: noun; a list of things to play.
Can big data be open data?
Only a few developers have been brave enough to let players see the data they collect on us.
The unlikely appeal of Type:Rider, a platformer about fonts
Unless you’re already a Helvetica fanatic, in which case you know how cool this is.
MedicationMeditation transforms mental illness into mini-games
Creator Kara Stone calls it “a playful way of taking on mental trauma.”
Is Captain Jameson an unfinishable game?
Farbs never intended for his space saga Captain Forever to actually take forever.
Playlist 10/16: The Wolf Among Us investigates, Pokemon X/Y reinvigorates, and Cake Monsters makes us hungry (for cake)
What should you play? These games!
The Stanley Parable creator Davey Wreden discusses his un-discussable game
“The language isn’t there.”
How Card Hunter reinvented tabletop gaming by getting rid of the table
We speak to game designer Jon Chey and game consultant Richard Garfield (father of Magic: The Gathering) about merging two kinds of play.
How The Walking Dead uses big data to make life-or-death decisions
Telltale Games mines decision-making numbers to change the player experience and the narrative itself.
To Shooter, With Guilt sifts through the rubble of digital warfare
A game jam developer asks what all these digitized drone strikes mean.
Will Battlefield 4 be the world’s most excessive game?
DICE’s beta is equal parts action film, art film, and huge crumbly cookie.
The sadly exaggerated death of Nintendo Land
Nintendo is phasing out its Wii U debut, but one writer keeps the hope.
What’s it like to play in zero gravity?
You come back, but you’re never the same.
Inside the company that rules the Halo, Splinter Cell, and Tron universes
Media “bibles” are used as creative springboards, not blueprints.
Can Gran Turismo 6 reignite America’s love of the automobile?
On the road with Kazunori Yamauchi at the Jalopnik Film Festival.
How the American military is using videogames to capture the hearts and minds of children
We talk to author Corey Mead about his new book War Play.
Young Wonder, videogames and how grown-ups play
James Wilkes’ five-minute short film proves that you don’t have to play with toys to play with toys.
Salty Bet is the most interesting website on the internet right now
The Ultimate Showdown of Ultimate Destiny, one round at a time.
I am a grown, married adult and I played Spin the Bottle: Bumpie’s Party
I stand tall and pronounce this decision as a good one.