News
Carpe Diem, and other lessons from the death-filled Roundabout
Embracing the great beyond.
News
News
SUPERHOT on Oculus Rift draws the game into its clearest focus yet
Time enough.
News
Journey producer Robin Hunicke is a welcome face for Google’s effort to reach girls
“Every person that has the inspiration to make a game can now contribute their voice.”
News
Toronto street artist somehow renders safety "cool"
The streets might be safe, but their also covered in spider webs.
News
New PBS Game/Show asks if the death of net neutrality will be bad for games
In one word: yes. It could be terrible!!! As you may know, the FCC is currently considering new legislation that could radically jeopardize the Internet we know and love. But you may not have considered the implications this would have on the medium of videogames. These days, games are pretty much i
News
Amon26 turns nightmares into 8-bit horrors for In The Kingdom
as
News
Axiom Verge is a five-year labor of love
Like an alien bursting out of Sony’s chest.
News
A quaint game about raising a family… in the nuclear apocalypse
Sheltered, a cool-looking management sim on Kickstarter, has all the down-to-earth trials and tribulations of daily family life. You provide food and shelter for your loved ones, repair home appliances, make a quick run to the store, take care of the pets, and, uh, defend your fallout bunker from th
News
These doomed classic cars reveal the Jetsons-esque future we never knew
Back in the 50s and 60s, people thought that by now we’d be living in a bright, shiny future with a bunch of really beautiful, silver rocket cars. This was sadly not to be, so now The High Mueseum in Atlanta is displaying many prototypes of these failed futuristic rides in its Dream Cars exhibit, ru
News
Thump those pesky meeples out of your way in Bruno Cathala’s new boardgame
Other people’s meeples—those famous, multicolored, wooden board game pieces—have a bad habit of claiming the territory you have your eye on. It can get annoying. So for his Five Tribes, designer Bruno Cathala decided to design a meeple displacement system to help on your path to becoming the dominan
News
Alexander Bruce on how making Antichamber made him a "more humble positive person"
Are games just narcissistic entertainment, or could they actually teach us moral values? It’s a big question and open for debate, but Alexander Bruce, the developer of Antichamber, says that process of creating the perspective-warping puzzler changed his personality for the better. Speaking with Gam
News
13 years in the making, an indie game that’s justified for looking like an old platformer
Thirteen years in the making, this indie game is justified for looking like an old platformer. The story of Tobias and the Dark Sceptres is one of obsession, devotion, and futility, but most of all shareware. Adam Butcher started creating the game for the Multimedia Fusion game creation tool in 2001