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Deer God, a game about being majestic as f**ck and one with nature
That deer-in-headlights look is just a facade to mask godliness.
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Scary haptic-feedback toy gun vibrates and recoils like the real thing
Because it’s totally lame to fire a dinky little light gun in virtual reality, the Striker VR looks, rattles, and vibrates like a real-deal, deadly assault weapon. “Input” remains one of the great unknowns in our VR-filled future, so you might as well pick one of these up if you’ve already sprung fo
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The ill effects of climate change sure make for a beautiful game
Submerged, from the little-known Australians at Uppercut Games, is a very pretty exploration game about sailing a small fishing vessel through a tropical city that is half, well, submerged. The devs posted on their development blog that they are going for a kind of “destroyed beauty,” which we so o
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Now you can play Cory Arcangel’s readymade "Bomb Iraq" from your desk
The digital art archivists at Rhizome have excavated and extracted files from the computer that contains Cory Arcangel’s 2005 Bomb Iraq, so now you can experience a piece of art from the creator of Super Mario Clouds in your browser. A sort of modern-day Duchamp’s Fountain, Bomb Iraq is a post-conc
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Here’s why you loved killing Nazis in the new Wolfenstein
The short answer is: historical accuracy. Wait, what? OK, so granted Wolfenstein: The New Order features some pretty outrageous stuff, like cyborg guard dogs and a mad scientist that has engineered human mechas. But as Wolfenstein’s creative director Jens Matthies tells Giant Bomb, a lot of research
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Heartwood’s gloom exploits our innate terror of forests
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The Thing From the Future will make you into Isaac Asimov
“Trying to predict the future is a discouraging and hazardous occupation,” wrote British sci-fi author Arthur C. Clarke. The author of 2001: A Space Odyssey would know a thing or two about what’s to come, seeing as he literally wrote a book called Profiles of the Future. And yet Stuart Candy and Jef
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Atlus’s surreal sleeper masterpiece is coming to PSN this week
Now that Atlus is re-releasing Devil Summoner 2: Raidou Kuzunoha vs. King Abaddon on PSN later this week, I can finally put my PS2 to bed. A sequel to a mediocre game which sported a super-long, unwieldy name, Devil Summoner 2 was overlooked by nearly everyone when it released for the PS2 well into
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Check out these strange, fascinating indie prototypes from Nintendo
Japan doesn’t get much street cred for developing small independent games. (Of course, there are some notable exceptions.) However, in recent years, Nintendo of Japan has been hosting a Game Seminar to foster independent talent. At the most recent event, they invited young creators to grow and crea
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Doing it wrong: World of Warcraft player grinds to max level by picking herbs in training level
After spending two years in exile in The Wandering Isles, the opening area in World of Warcraft, which is pretty much intended to introduce players to the game, WoW player Doubleagent has reached level 90, the maximum character stat in the dragon-dueling MMO, which is patently insane. You might not
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Vane is as gorgeous and desolate as you’d expect, coming from ex-Last Guardian devs
Vane is a jaw-dropping game about exploring dangerous old ruins in desolate nature, and boy does it have pedigree. It’s coming to us from some self-described devilishly handsome ex-members of The Last Guardian team—that’s Fumito Ueda’s long en absentia, man-eating yet puppy-eyed monster game for Pl
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The devastating Bottle Rockets proves that you can’t speed-run through life
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