Fantasy Life romanticizes the small things
In the end, though? Dragons.
games vs. real life
Kim Kardashian Hollywood isn’t a fantasy-it’s real
The monster social game breaks the fourth wall.
A new Madden ignores and confronts all the NFL’s problems
How much reality should we demand from our videogames?
I had a panic attack while playing The Walking Dead. Is this a good thing?
What games can help us overcome.
Mountain is a first step toward more human-centered game design
Easy to learn, easy to master.
This War of Mine interrogates the nature of the war game
Going beyond the call of duty.
Wake the Dreamer is the indie alternative to Nintendo’s Tomodachi Life
Wake the Dreamer for iOS is the highest-concept game we’ve heard of all week, and that’s definitely saying something. It’s one of those games that takes a good paragraph to understand, and hey, that’s what I’m here for. Judging from the designer Ali Sakhapour’s description and from the trailer, it’s
What is the Dice+? I’m still not sure
It’s a cube, definitely.
Like The Room? Try it in real life.
Inside one man’s quest to make room escape games real.
Videogame installation combines physical and digital play
RoRoD is a version of the classic brick-eliminating Breakout game that requires players to bounce a real ball against a digital display.
PKPKT is the mobile game that promotes real-life pickpocketing
Hacking into an innocent bystander’s cell phone and stealing their currency is a criminal activity. It could land you in jail. We are not advocating that. We are, however, in full support of PKPKT, the mobile “in real life” game about standing on a street corner and fishing for “suckers” with open b
How the box score created the multibillion-dollar fantasy sports industry
The rise of the ultimate meta-game.
Solve the Outbreak lets you play disease detective for a day
What could be more fun than disease puzzles? Solve the Outbreak is a new (and free) iPad app/game that allows players to live out their Contagion or even Outbreak fantasies and play the part of a CDC disease detective, solving clues to get a sense of what nasty illness each scenario presents. I’m go
Play enough games and you may win a shiny drone-piloting award from the military
Recent news from the American military has been all about modernization lately. The US will soon allow women in combat roles (roles they’re already playing in the current conflicts, thanks to the reality that the front lines are everywhere), LGBT soldiers can serve openly, and their families can rec