It’s been a while since I’ve seen a warning label at the beginning of a videogame trailer. “WARNING: This trailer contains violent footage and flashing images that some may find disturbing.” That’s how the Kickstarter trailers for Agony open up, before each of them start smashing heads open with fis
Who do you think was the first person to start wrecking shit in Hell? It couldn’t have always been a nightmare ditch fraught with furious anger and the scabbed lamentations of sinners. Someone must have made like Saturn in Goya’s famous oil painting and started to devour all their children or someth
DOOM is a game of many secrets. The fast-paced shooter is filled to the brim with nostalgia-laden easter eggs to discover, catering well to its demographic. It’s no surprise that its soundtrack is bursting with secrets as well, this time of the spectrogram variety, according to eagle-eyed fan TomBut
In the Abrahamic religions—and the texts that have grown out of them—Satan is a fallen angel, cast out of heaven for daring to rebel against God. Though his name is synonymous with fear and evil, it’s Satan’s tireless, implacable need to oppose everything God wills that truly characterizes him. He’s
Daniel Benmergui has been working on Storyteller—his critically acclaimed, experimental, narrative-generating puzzle game (phew!)—for a long time. As we detailed in an in-depth feature on him at the end of last year, it’s his passion project, and a rallying cry for videogame developers in Latin Amer
The original La-Mulana was super-difficult doujin-ware made by a group of hobbyists from Osaka in 2006. It was never intended for mass consumption, a lovingly made yet punishingly hard throwback to the days of retro gaming, when games were abstruse, and tip-lines and the playground were a poor-man’s
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
