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Every child of the Nintendo era was amazed at the wonders of the light gun. You had this plastic weapon; you pointed it at the screen; there was a flash; ducks/people died. “Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic,” Isaac Clarke said. And magic the light gun was indeed.
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We are an impatient lot. To paraphrase Christian Slater in Kuffs, we have places to see, people to do. And 21st century entertainment is all too happy to bend to our ADD whims. Whereas a Henry James novel might take 100 pages to establish the central conflict, a modern thriller starts with a 2-page
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Disney’s new venture into game/toy synergy a la Skylanders, Disney Infinity, is coming to every single dedicated game platform this summer. Andy Robertson of Family Gamer TV recently interviewed John Blackburn, Studio Head for the new Infinity project, and came away with the pricing for the stand-al
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You may not know this, but for the last decade, videogame consoles have been banned in China. That is crazy. But things are looking to change. A source at the Ministry of Culture told China Daily market.” If you are a big fella like Nintendo or Sony or a smaller fella like Valve or OUYA, this is gre
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Thirty years ago, Nintendo released their Famicom in Japan, two years before it would come out in the west as the NES. President of Nintendo Corporate Ltd., Satoru Iwata announced that to celebrate the small system’s big anniversary, Wii U owners would be able to download one classic game a month fo
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Uberflip is a Toronto-based creator of PDF editing software that enables more flexible and robust info-distribution. Their very business model depends on using the screens in our hands, and in front of our eyes, effectively. They recently compiled a report on how we use these screens; according to s
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In case you missed it, we ran a game jam this month in partnership with OUYA called CREATE. 165 development teams (!) spent ten days building prototypes of brand new games for the upcoming OUYA console. And today you all get to see them. The CREATE prototype submission videos are now live HERE! We
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We’re all in trouble. According to a new piece in The Week, there’s been a marked rise in legitimate cases of Digital Attention Disorder – that is, an addiction to the internet and its infinite distractions. Some people have it so badly (no NeoGaf jokes, please), that they require professional treat
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After a banner year, the game industry is going through something of a Kickstarter hangover right now. It was the bright and exciting new thing last February and March, but now, we’re as likely to hear about big name hail mary prayers like Gas Powered Games’ latest bid to get Wildman going, or scary
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Can footman Thomas Barrow save the abbey? We don’t know, because this graphic-adventure adaptation of everyone’s favorite T.V. show about snooty British butlers isn’t real. Chiptune composer Bill Kiley had the brilliant idea to lay down an 8-bit version of Downton Abbey’s theme, and he took the libe
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Last night I got a chance to kick my feet up with Wave Trip, a new snazzy music game by the sangfroid dudes at Lucky Frame. After doing so, I took it as my duty to tell you about it right away! Like all the great iOS games, Wave Trip is quite simple, almost disposable really. You pilot a lilting tri
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The worlds of fiction are inherently malleable. Since they exist solely in the minds of their creators, rules bend to the slightest of whims; what begins as flight of fancy can take hold and not let go. Before we know it the undead have invaded Longbourn. Dear reader, our classics are being spoiled,