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Goodbye forever, Flappy Bird
May you flap in peace, higher and higher, sweet creature.
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Last week in boardgames: Bruno Cathala’s new game has men at work, elusive complexity
Celebrated game designer Bruno Cathala’s next game for Days of Wonder looks fantastically complicated. Not much is known about it, as it is still a prototype, but it has something to do with workers, and pyramids, and tile rotation, and a cup of espresso. Come to think of it that could just be someo
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After Amnesia Fortnight, Double Fine should just hire Pendleton Ward outright
Amnesia Fortnight is Double Fine’s annual internal game jam, where members of the studio cook up a ton of rough sketches for games that are far too zany, cutesy, and preposterous to otherwise exist, like this one about a horse-for-hire that saves clumsy heros. Then, for the next six days, they’ll as
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Atari porn makes a comeback in Pippin Barr’s newest tragi-comedy
Small dick vs. medium dick. Medium dick vs. small dick. Big dick vs. big dick. These are choices you should assess before entering into any dick fight. What’s a dick fight? Well, don’t google it. Play Pippin Barr’s game Lo-fi Dick Fight instead. It continues his habit of publishing funny, way-too-di
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RZA to defend his chess champion title, because he is the RZA
The RZA is the grandmaster of hip-hop, and we do not mean that in like a “Grandmaster Flash” context. The dude is mega-good at chess. Next week in Anaheim he will be defending his crown at the Hip Hop Chess Federation’s celebrity tournament, which is the most RZA-sounding federation ever. He’ll prob
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New PBS Game/Show asks if Zelda exploits our nostalgia for profit
When you pick up a new Zelda game, such as The Legend of Zelda: A Link Between Worlds, there are certain things you automatically expect. A little elven lad in a green tunic? Check. Fractured shard of a magical triangle? Check. Wacking chickens with your sword until they gang-tackle you? Check. The
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Bionic Chainsaw Pogo Gorilla is as wacky and violent as you’d expect
Here comes the Internet.
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Videogame art is "art," says artist
Artist Jon Gourley has opened the Video Game Art Museum, featuring the 8-bit paintings from the backgrounds of video games.
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The game that imagines the terror of trying to escape from an endless loop of Apple stores
We haven’t gotten our mitts on NaissanceE yet, coming to Steam on Feb. 13th, but from the looks of the trailer, it perfectly captures the modern American recurring nightmare of desperately running through an endless number of Apple stores, each storefront leading into another, nearly identical, hosp
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Al Franken is very worried about facial recognition on Google Glass
Senator Al Franken has spoken out against Nametag, one of the first facial recognition apps for Google Glass, saying that we “cannot reasonably prevent [ourselves] from being identified” by the all-seeing eye of geeks with amazing eyepieces. The app scans the faces of everyone in your vicinity and g
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Jeff Minter’s new Vita game furthers his obsession with Tempest
Jeff Minter’s legacy is shaping up to be that guy who took Tempest and pushed it to its rave-y, trance-inducing, crystalline extreme. That, or sheep. We see this with TxK, coming later in February, which, well, looks like bliss. (He apologized for the trailer’s compressed video quality, which will l
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The fancy camera tech that will make League of Legends easier to watch
Riot Games are working on smart cameras that automatically follow the action on-screen in League of Legends, because sometimes you just want to kick back and watch esports, the way you would any other sport. This new feature, which they’ve been granted a patent for, aims to improve Spectator Mode, w