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A war game uses Morse code to slow you down. That’s a good thing
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Explore a lonely house in this videogame about accepting absence
If you’ve ever moved house you should be familiar with the peculiar act of emptying familiar spaces. In doing this myself, I’ve come to realize that memories not only lie within the objects we own but also the walls and floors we have them occupy. The difference is that we have to leave those memori
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SCALE creator examines how small details can have a huge impact
SCALE captures so much of what makes videogames exciting: that feeling of interacting with ordinary objects in new and strange ways, the abstraction of mundane things, the sense of wonder that comes with experimentation, and the reward when your presence in the world means something. But it isn’t al
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Job Hunting Simulator has all the soul crushing reality of an actual job hunt
Great news, everyone! Unemployment is down to 5.1%, the lowest its been since 2008! The American dream is resuscitated, pumping a feeble yet confident fist up into the air. Well, except for millennials, that is, where unemployment is still at a resounding 13.8 % as of May 2015. Yeah, that’s right, i
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Dead End Road will conjure up the dread of late night driving
A couple years ago, I had a job that required me to work late. I’d have to drive home on the verge of midnight a few days a week, through an unlit part of town I wasn’t very familiar with. There were jackrabbits in the field by the office. I saw one alive once. More often I’d spot them at night afte
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Old people rejoice: Halo is slow again
Halo 5‘s arena mode is straight outta 2007.
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A videogame tribute to the action-comedy of Bud Spencer and Terence Hill
Bud Spencer and Terence Hill, the Italian movie stars known for three decades of action-comedy, always deserved a videogame. A classic Spencer and Hill scenario is a mass brawl, the pair squaring off against a jittering hive of incompetent opponents, each punch over-exaggerated in gesture and sound
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Someone Hire This Man
This is a story about a cheeky gambit that, by virtue of our covering it can only be said to have succeeded. So much for the journalist as a neutral force. But it’s a good, cheeky gambit, so let’s not get too bogged down in the observer effect. Seth van Heijster has created an interactive resume tha
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Drake’s awkward "Hotline Bling" dancing is the ultimate in uncool as cool
Those goofy Hotline Bling moves show that “nerd culture” is now pop culture Drake, memes, and the art of being uncool
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What’s going on over at The Chinese Room?
A lot is going on at The Chinese Room at the moment. Perhaps not as much as before Everybody’s Gone to the Rapture was released, or necessarily more than any other studio out there, but what is going on is being documented in surprisingly personal and honest blogs. This is going to start off grim an
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Cards Against Urbanity lets you study and mock urban planning at the same time
The difference between Cards Against Humanity and the sort of flashcards used for revision is, I suppose, that the latter can come in a greater range of colours. Sure, “a cat video so cute your eyes roll back and your spine slides out your anus” is not the typical exam prompt, but the mechanics are
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The toylike world of Lovely Weather We’re Having will be with us soon
Colorful going-outside sim Lovely Weather We’re Having has a release date of November 10th for PC and Mac. You can watch the Big Announcement in this totally real clip from the Ellen DeGeneres Show. Lovely Weather We’re Having is described as a “goal-free” game about spending time outside, chatting