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Ballots: Richard Clark
High Scores 2011 ballot.
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Ballots: Tom Armitage
High Scores 2011 ballot.
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Ballots: Ryan Kuo
High Scores 2011 ballot.
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High Scores: The Lost and Lonely
The great games of 2011 that squeaked onto the master list with one vote—but didn’t make the cut.
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High Scores: The Best of 2011
The best games of the year—picked over, rewarded, enumerated, and debated in our weeklong critic’s feature. Read and celebrate (or lament) the results!
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"Why Can’t We Just Have Indie Games?"
We catch up with Phil Fish, creator of the highly anticipated adventure game Fez, at GameCity and get honest about player reactions, corporate sponsors, and the power of music.
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In Brief: The Complex Life
For Kirk Battle, getting stuck in Shin Megami Tensei is a lesson in government.
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How Gaming Finished Me
We send our intern to cover the Major League Gaming tournament in Raleigh, N.C. and things don’t go as planned. How did a botched registration lead to the National Guard and a broken back?
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Magic Mistakes
Gus Mastrapa talks to Tiny Speck founder Stewart Butterfield about the studio’s new massively multiplayer online game Glitch, regarding the importance of adults, illustrators, and doing nice things for each other.
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Unraveling the Scarlet Crusade
Diana Poulsen investigates the role of architecture in World of Warcraft and other games.
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The Dream Pipe
Berlin-based landscape architecture firm ANNABAU recently opened an experimental playground in the town center of Wiesbaden. We talk to cofounder Moritz Schloten about German playgrounds, pipes, loops, and the concept of “endless play.”
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In Brief: What Can Games Teach Us About Law?
In our first law column, attorney Kirk Battle introduces how game design can shed light on political maneuvers.