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0RBITALIS is like Angry Birds in the actual fathomless depths of space
Not Angry Birds Space, though.
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Watch The Alien: Isolation devs recreate Alien’s shoddy analog computer systems
The future just got a lot more retro.
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The totally necessary automated S.E.L.F.I.E. mirror
Consider high angles a thing of the past.
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Technolust begs the question: What happens if you enter virtual reality while in virtual reality?
With a name like Technolust, this VR game, now on Kickstarter, could have only be a sleek cyberpunk noir, or some sleezy VR sex game. Luckily it’s the former, because up till now we haven’t really seen a full-blown cyberpunk game in virtual reality with neon cities and mega-corps and cybernetic Asia
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Heart Forth, Alicia is a gorgeous RPG seven years in the making
Videogames are hardly wanting for another Metroidvania – that exploration-heavy, upgrade-focused branch of the RPG tree. But Heart Forth, Alicia is a particularly tempting fruit. The game lays its cards on the table with a $60 tier that delivers a boxed copy of the game and manual designed “in the s
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This building-side Frogger is the arcade of the gods
As this 22-story-tall Frogger clone in São Paulo proves, major metropolitan areas are quickly becoming skyscraper arcades. Street Crosser, a game with a social cause, joins that giant game of Tetris played over Philly a few weeks ago as the two latest examples of god-sized videogames. But this inst
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Amnesia’s Thomas Grip: "Right now we’re sort of in the slasher horror genre in games."
Horror games are currently in a rut with their slasher film mentality says Thomas Grip, designer of games that chickens like me stay far, far away from. Speaking with Rock, Paper, Shotgun about his upcoming title SOMA, he explained that scary games have yet to evolve from gory, cheap scares into a m
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Playlist 4/16: Ragdoll yourself with Trials Fusion, set aside a Pink Hour, and make time to bleed with Broforce
We’ve got the games if you’ve got the time.
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Pretty much everyone ever owns and plays Dota 2 (apparently)
The dark fantasy esport Dota 2 is undeniably Steam’s killer app, according to the number-crunching-smiths at Ars Technica, who found that over 25 million copies have been downloaded and played on Valve’s popular digital download service. We shouldn’t be shocked that such a hardcore, complex game—eve
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This colossal Lego sculpture plays head-nodding Chicago house
A musician has built from Lego an old-school analogue synthesizer that plays smooth and hypnotic Chicago acid house, totally one-upping both that Lego city I built when I was 7 and my unimpressive foray into DJing. Simply called Play House, the Goldberg-esque mechanical sculpture was assembled from
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Action Henk! lets you envision Sonic as a huge fat dude
At last!
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The diving game genre just got more beautiful and weird
When I heard that the guys behind Natural Selection 2—the fantastically strange esport about adaptive alien alligators ripping military men to shreds—were doing a diving game, I thought no way can this be a warm-hearted, Flipper-loving, scuba diving game. That’s far too normal, as these gorgeous new