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With apps, games, multimedia, multitasking, and online functionality galore, Sony’s newly released PlayStation Vita wants to be everything to everyone. Ryan Kuo argues that it is definitely one thing for one person: the hardcore gamer, whatever that looks like.
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What Would Drake Do if he were a famous fake basketball player and not just a sad rapper? Drew Millard gets inside his head and finds out (surprise: Drake is not happy).
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We talk to Rogers Redding, the man responsible for balancing the rules of NCAA football. What can one of our most beloved—but complicated and particular—sports tell us about the pursuit of meaning through limitations, success and defeat?
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Sports videogames suffer from an identity crisis: they are games about games. To kick off our first week of sports articles, A.E. Benenson writes on the eternal confusion, and why “cheating” in MLB: The Show is good sportsmanship.
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Nintendo’s cheerful take on Monopoly found an untimely release in America last December. Jason Johnson digs into the financial game and finds himself overpowered by Mushroom Kingdom denizens who seem blessed by advantages he can’t see, but feels tearing a hole in his savings.
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Is the game industry a well-oiled, profoundly risk-averse machine with a stranglehold on creative talent, or is crowdfunding about to destroy publishing as we know it? Jamin Warren takes a look at the unprecedented success of Tim Schafer’s Kickstarter project Double Fine Adventure and sees a potenti
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What’s in a name? The word “gamer” is used to connote men and women who enjoy videogames, and it contains the perilous highs and lowest lows of human experience. Jason Johnson argues that it’s time to leave the term behind.
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How are sports created in our own image? When the global game of soccer is digitally transformed into an international hit in FIFA, the ball finds itself caught between disparate communities, economies, and goals. James Dilks charts its journey from the western coast of Africa to the cables of the F
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When boundaries were pushed at this year’s Nordic Game Jam, it was in all senses: technological, creative, and personal. Thomas Rousse followed the two-day development of Awkward Tarzan Grinding Game and found its tangle of dongles and vines anything but.
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?Between War Horse and Bronies, pop culture is currently obsessed with two things: horses and iPhones. Drew Millard dives into My Horse, an iPhone game about horses, and comes up for air—with a thesis of the new generation between his teeth.
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How would snow or Tebow factor into the upcoming Superbowl? In anticipation of this weekend’s game of all games, Abe Stein shares his findings on various simulation matches via Madden 2012.
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Recent cash-in knockoffs of popular mobile games Tiny Tower and Triple Town have the gaming scene in a fury. But there’s a problem with this scenario: It’s nothing new, with plenty of precedent in other media. Game designers need to embrace their copycats. Here’s why.