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Why is it that a robot must always look terrifying to perform an impressive feat? Don’t they have any friendly, safe, innocuous looking robots? Maybe it’s just my active imagination envisioning the legs welded with knife blades, but there’s something inherently unsettling about watching the lightnin
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Navigating the impossibly constructed catwalks and minarets in Monument Valley worked so seamlessly that I never stopped to ask, “How did they do this?” This despite the fact the Escher-esque game broke the rules of geometry and rational thought and space. However, pulling off a Penrose triangle tha
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It has been properly established that Planescape: Torment is an legendary work of distorted imagination that happened to have pretty shit combat. But you can sleep easy knowing that the devs who are working on Torment: Tides of Numenera are aware of the opinion and are overhauling battles for the ho
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You probably passed it off as just the right combination of sleep depravation, screen hypnosis, and Red Bull, but sometimes games make us feel, well, otherworldly. Cognitive anthropologist Ryan Hornbeck, who interviewed gaggles of Chinese World of Warcraft players for his dissertation, has a deeper
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A few years ago, Nick Criscuolo uploaded a sublime mock-up trailer for an 8-bit adaptation of Zardoz, the best absurd cult sci-fi to feature Sean Connery in a red spandex loincloth. Now Nick is very much interested in making that fictional project a reality, throwing some rather inconceivable level
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Currently, Pendleton Ward’s Twitter feed has been transformed from into a hand-drawn, old-school, first-person adventure game called Quest Attack!, hosted by none other than the walrus-bearded Adventure Time creator himself. It’s no secret the cartoonist is connected to games, with nods to tabletop
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Among the Sleep, a pioneer in the first-person baby horror gen, is going to make you feel all weak and vulnerable very, very soon. The spooky game about a small child who escapes the crib to discover a fairyland hell is coming to Steam on May 29. When I played an early demo of the game last year, I
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For a brief period after the onset of the Syrian Civil War, journalist Mitch Swenson was there, hitching rides with Syrian rebels and rubbing elbows with smugglers. Then, he came home to the US to write a free-to-play adventure game about it. (Full disclosure: he has written exactly 2 articles for u
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Someone needs to find Drakengard 3 director Toro Yoko and give him a hug. The fine people over at Gamechurch have transcribed a very somber and reflective interview on his views about those violent competitive kill-fests we call games, and it’s a compelling read. He finds it saddening that there ar
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Around March 9th, 2014, GIRL became the first worm-like quadrupedal videogame character launched from Earth to reach Neptune. She did this thanks to the untold hours of hard work by players of Noby Noby Boy, Katamari Damacy creator Keita Takahashi’s game about stretching, which allowed players to su
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Brendon Chung’s jury-lauded hacking game Quadrilateral Cowboy is your archetypal cyberpunk game, right? You operate from a Matrix-like control room; it’s a game about hacking; the word “cowboy” is in the title; hover-bikes are a thing. But unlike sci-fi works that focus on sleek but oppressive tech