First off, the New York Review of Books blog considers the connection between Tarkovsky’s Stalker, the S.T.A.L.K.E.R. game series, and Chernobyl. And for extra credit, read our interview with an artist who raided the Zone! “So there I sat in my parents’ living room, playing the game with my mom, sho
First up. Metro: Last Light looks smoking hot. Those thick Eastern European accents and underground conduits just ooze atmosphere. Most anticipated game this year. A director’s cut of Deus Ex: Human Revolution is coming to Wii U, and the infuriating, outsourced, hard as shit boss fights have been re
Nintendo has just announced that the truly excellent (and almost ridiculously hardcore) Donkey Kong Country Returns will have a new lease on life, in the form of a 3DS version, due out this summer. It will be in 3D, on a tiny screen, but unless Retro seriously messes with the title, this will also b
The original Brain Age: Train Your Brain in Minutes a Day! was a surprise hit for the Nintendo DS, which along with its sequel sold over 30 million copies and went a long way to convince those who never owned a gaming system before to pick one up and exercise their aging cortex. It also had a rock-s
Blizzard “Nemo” battered the east coast overnight on Friday. The governor of Massachusetts enforced an official ban on driving, the first since 1978, with penalties upwards of a year in prison if caught on the roads. Public transit shut down indefinitely. Most schools, stores and businesses shut dow
