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No longer pigeonholed as the needless playthings of Gen Y’ers, videogames are forever proving their usefulness to science. Scientific American ran an illuminating article on memory and how it is obfuscated by the simple act of, get this, walking through a door. It’s harder than you think. – – – Acco
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Last summer, Brainy Gamer himself Michael Abbott compared the first-person shooters of today to the Westerns of the late 50s. Each surged in popularity that sustained for over a decade; each eventually saturated the market with washed-out, predictable versions of each other, until the public moved o
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We’re all in agreement here that videogames are a form of art, right there with hip-hop and architecture and the animated GIF, but what about code, that intangible string of 1’s and 0’s running in the background, managing the possibilities for interaction with the structure of a game. Could that too
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Final Fantasy All the Bravest released for iOS last week. The game is a boiled-down experience of nothing but RPG combat. If turn-based battles were your favorite part of Final Fantasy but the story, relationships, exploration and sense of adventure got in the way… here’s your game. Our old editor J
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David Bianculli is the propreitor of TV Worth Watching and is the tv critic for NPR’s Fresh Air. He was generally pretty pessimistic about the lack of creativity in 2012 and 2013 isn’t off to a better start. While reviewing The Following, a new crime drama starring Kevin Bacon on the trail of a seri
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A couple weeks ago, I headed up to Montreal, where it was colder than Hoth, to look beneath the hood of Far Cry 3. For each of the Kill Screen episodes on Creators Project, we’ve picked a specific angle for the game to hone in on. In this case, we looked at what it means to build a virtual world, sp
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To many of our readers, Atari was the first experience they had with videogames. Your first controller may have been the 2600’s iconic joystick. Your first game, Combat. Your first time throwing a controller against the wall in frustration? My money is on Haunted House. Those darn ghosts gave me fit
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The Cave, out today for PSN and Wii U (and arriving tomorrow for XBLA and Steam), is the first title to spring from legendary adventure game designer Ron Gilbert’s (The Secret of Monkey Island, Day of the Tentacle) new gig at Double Fine Productions, the title is a classic adventure presented via 2D
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This past weekend, Park City, Utah hosted the annual Sundance Film Festival, and a hundred indie film dreams either came true or were crushed. What better way to rinse off the stink of disappointment than with a rousing session of SiNG PARTY? Nintendo of America organized a gaming lounge for attende
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Touching an actual screen is so 2004. In the near-future, we all might be pinching, sliding, and tapping the same air we breath. Displair showed off its new screen-technology at the annual Consumer Electronics Show earlier this month. The device itself, a base the size of a paper-shredder, looks fai
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Ninja Gaiden 3: Razor’s Edge released for Wii U this past November and just arrived in Europe earlier this month. This revamp of the Xbox 360/PS3 game refurbishes a number of that version’s faults—namely, a treacherous level of challenge—but also balances this difficulty with newly-implemented touch
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The career of a practicing poet is an obscure one, often confined to the pages of chatbooks with small runs. Just imagine the difficulties of a guy who makes, um, something there isn’t a word for, videogame poems. Gap is a new poem, and a navigable one, by the programmer/poet extraordinaire Sonny R