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This week in glitches: go up north in GTA5, and witness the rapture in Assassin’s Creed 4
Keep open worlds weird.
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Samurai Gunn looks minimalist and plays fantastic
Well-placed strokes are an important thing in Samurai Gunn, the new, super-fun, four-player fighter for PC that dabbles pixel art with Kurosawa. That applies not only to strategy in a game where one hit will kill you, but also to the game’s visual flair. A horizontal slash scores the arena like a ri
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Toca Boca’s Science Lab brings Swedish design sensibilities to the classroom
When I was in school, the periodic table was distinctly un-fun—a photocopied chart of elements and atomic numbers to be memorized in rote fashion. Toca Boca’s Science Lab for iPad, out tomorrow, looks like the greatest argument for the gamification of learning to date. (Putting aside how problematic
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Dex proves that with a trench coat and shades any game can be cyberpunk
Even if you haven’t heard of it, you know how Dex goes. A police siren wails in a rainy back alley. Purple neon letters carve through an infinitesimally gray city precinct. You used to be somebody until your memory implants were fried while hacking into the firewall of a sentient AI—a setup, you cla
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Photography game FO/CUS rethinks the aim of lifeless shooters
When a guy like John Carmack says that the first-person shooter will never die, it’s pretty much gospel. But FO/CUS by mindful xp is a prime example of how conventions of the shooter can be flipped into something non-categorizable and special. You can play it here. Made for the 7 Day FPS competition
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It sounds like Valve are working on a brain-imagery projection device
Valve’s Gabe Newell, looking and sounding a bit like Jerry Garcia, recently fielded questions from students who are learning to code. While the Google Hangout session was fairly standard fare for those familiar with the company’s m.o.—the internet upturning traditional economic models, the unorthodo
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Assassin’s Creed 4 lets you play as a female pirate, finally
Blackbeard’s Wrath (absolutely nothing to do with Montezuma’s revenge) is the multiplayer content for Assassin’s Creed 4 that’s out today, Dec. 10th. Among its cast of three heroic scalawags is The Orchid. Though her back story goes into Templars and the Qing dynasty and some stuff about how she bal
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Rock and roll will never die, and neither will the first-person shooter
In an interview today with Wired, John Carmack, the programmer of Doom and grandpapa of the first-person shooter, had the following to say about the longevity of the battle-worn genre. I think that first-person shooter is a stable genre that’s going to be here forever, just like there are going to
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Hello Games said the "p-word" in front of a nationally syndicated audience
Chances are you were too busy taking in the oceans of stars to notice the talking point of No Man’s Sky, the recently unveiled star-fighter from the studio that has brought us outstanding little gems about an Evel Knievel named Joe Danger. Maybe you were half paying attention, not knowing what you w
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Why the Telltale’s Game of Thrones series has been ten years in the making
Coming in for a King’s Landing.
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Upcoming adventure game Monument Valley looks beautiful, Swedish
A fanciful new trailer for the lovely-looking Monument Valley has been released, and its about as charming as flipping through the kids’ section in the Ikea catalog, which is to say it’s pretty charming! The crux of the game seems to be rotating and revolving blocks into impossible orientations so t
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The best quotes from the NSA World of Warcraft surveillance papers
The Guardian has published a document from the Edward Snowden leak that shows that the NSA has been playing a lot of WoW to fight terrorism. Yes, you read that right. They’ve been doing some elven espionage in hopes of catching international scumbags. Apparently, someone at DOJ has been reading Neal