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We often get digital recreations of the past in the form of modern-day remakes. But what about imagined futures? Michael Thomsen writes at Complex.com about an article from 1988 that prefigured what our world would look like in the far-off future of 2013. Turns out the way we envision tomorrow tells
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TwinSky Games’ Indiana Jones: The Brave and the Boulder is a devilish twist on infinite runners such as Temple Run. Ostensibly, the game is a pastiche of the well-worn genre that we never wanted to see again but when you start to unpack it, the whole thing gets weirder and weirder. This game, like m
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Hello Kill Screen! (Here’s the tl;dr edition: We’re taking down our Kickstarter for the Twofivesix conference. But the conference is still happening, and tickets are now cheaper! You can get them here!) – – – When we launched the announcement for Twofivesix. a few weeks ago, we were filled with exci
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First up. Metro: Last Light looks smoking hot. Those thick Eastern European accents and underground conduits just ooze atmosphere. Most anticipated game this year. A director’s cut of Deus Ex: Human Revolution is coming to Wii U, and the infuriating, outsourced, hard as shit boss fights have been re
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Spring is all about beginnings: the budding flowers, the cleaned-out closets, our renewed addiction to sugar-coated marshmallow baby chicks. This short documentary profiles Ralph Baer, inventor of the Magnovox Odyssey, the first commercially-viable videogame console and the root of what we play tod
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Here’s the OMG news of the day (okay, of yesterday): Supergiant Games, a.k.a. those guys who made the indie sensation Bastion, are making a cyberpunk game!!! To be narrated by a grimy body parts smuggler? Maybe. A couple of blokes at Boing Boing explore the strange probability of Grime dice. Very ne
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Two days of winter remain. Read these and go for one last sled ride while you can. Sure, GlaDOS made some quips. But can a game truly be a comedy? One enterprising lad sought an answer (and asked our co-founder for insight along the way). Speaking of laughs: Nothing gets my gut jiggling like a subma
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Here’s what you need to know. Big Boi does motion-capture for Army of Two and reveals he lost his videogame virginity at a precocious age to an Atari. So does that mean I’m street? There is a space sim game that simulates the entire known universe and beyond. Welp, that about wraps it up for games.
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There are three things in my life that I am borderline unhealthily infatuated with: video games, celebrity culture, and rap battles. OverDog is a new app that preys on those first two. – – – OverDog allows you to play video games against a whole cavalcade of professional athletes. Athletes send out
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Impress Saint Patrick with your wisdom and know-how. If you always wanted a Neo-Geo but the hard plastic turned you off, Analogue Interactive has your answer. They’ll build you a system and joystick from “any wood in the world” — they even give you a Wood Database to choose from. The Hubble Telescop
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Here’s what you need to know. Because Climate Change isn’t fun enough already, now there’s a board game about it. First polar bear off the melting iceberg wins! A motion controller is coming to PCs next week. Our dream for a Minority Report workspace grows ever near. In this week’s heartwarming mome
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I actually watched Legends of the Hidden Temple. A lot. Monday through Friday. It was a routine. I desperately wanted to be on the show, to run the Temple Run. It was like Indiana Jones for tweens. What I didn’t realize at my impressionable age is that it was a trial of public humiliation and shame.