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Apple rejects educational game about slavery for being "offensive"
They may be right: it’s already caused uproar in the Netherlands.
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Cuphead is roughly 40% done, but hey, it’s gonna be a trilogy
Is 1930s animation the new 1990s pixel art? Probably not.
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Bribe potential employers by printing your resume onto a four pack
If your skills don’t speak for themselves, a crispy pale ale finish will.
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Google Maps just got a little more fun with this geographical trivia game
Lately, Google seems to be trying mighty hard to not be evil, as they keep releasing cool little projects like Smarty Pins. The Google Maps mod uses the popular map feature to test your knowledge of US geography, asking you questions like: which city is Portlandia set in? Okay, it gets a little har
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Playlist 7/2: Meditative mountains, terrifying houses, and cyberpunk nights.
V.I.D.E.O.G.A.M.E.S.
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Future Unfolding swaps out enemies for a sentient forest
I played a very early version of Spaces of Play’s Future Unfolding over a year ago in San Francisco. It was a wholly uneventful experience. The game looked largely the same as it does today, just devoid of, well, actual play. There were no paint-splattering wildebeests, no chiming crystals, no wormh
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Harmonix featured alongside Björk and a bunch of cool electronic artists at digital art show
Videogames in museums are nothing new, but usually exhibits with games are exclusively about games and separate from the other art, as if games are relegated to the kid’s table because of the fear they’d make inappropriate fart noises in front of the grown-ups. But the Digital Revolution exhibit, o
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Exploring the low-poly Lynchian landscapes of Virginia
Drink coffee; solve murders.
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League of Legends reunion story shows games as the new pen pal letter
Not sure how we missed this one. Riot Games asked San Francisco agency Muhtayzik Hoffer to show what League of Legends means to its millions of players and the result was a short called “Tim’s Story.” Tim lives in Nebraska, but grew up in Arizona. After his father endures a coma, the family decides
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Alcazar will puzzle your afternoon, bend your brain
Prepare to cede your afternoon. Jérôme Morin-Drouin of the Incredible Company has released a delightful and maddening puzzler in the form of Alcazar. Drawing on elements of Moorish design, from which the game takes its name, the game asks you to merely connect two or more exits in a straight line wh
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Wokamon is the Tamagotchi that feeds off your sweaty workouts
Now you can be a slob and a virtual pet murderer at the same time.
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TV and film are full of bad dads, but games are doing better
“[On TV] if there is a dad in the home, he is an idiot. It must have reflected our own discomfort with dads being competent,” said Hanna Rosin on a panel about the future of fatherhood this weekend at the Aspen Ideas Festival. “You put a dad in front of his kid, and the dad gives the worst advice. Y