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Wired with the tale of a creator and the pupil who may just best him: Cavanagh congratulated Killingsworth over Twitter when he posted proof of his new high score. Even if he’s not the best at everything, Cavanagh still delights in having created a brutally difficult game. Only 19 of its roughly 50,
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Nintendo wants you to get Professor Layton and the Miracle Mask for 3DS. They’ve even put two puzzles on their website for you to try out.
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This post is part of a content series presented in partnership with smartwater. smartwater, simplicity is delicious. This past April, a New York Times Magazine cover story called “Just One More Game…” assessed the growing influence of digital games on our time, our money, and our state of mind. As
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Videogames can make excellent babysitters, since they keep children occupied and entertained for long stretches of time. Of course, not every videogame is appropriate for chidren. Samuel Sattin at The Weeklings writes about trying to let a visiting 7-year-old play Uncharted 2. The child’s mother pro
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President Bill Clinton goes all ludological on us.
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Beneath a Steel Sky was a beloved and barely-played 1994 cyberpunk adventure game with an opening sequence drawn by Dave Gibbons of Watchmen fame. The team at Revolution Software had planned on making Beneath a Steel Sky 2 if it rasied a million dollars on Kickstarter, but co-founder Tony Warriner t
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The free indie game First Draft puts you in the role of a banished wife of a magic-using noble. The story, told through letters you revise, recalls ye olde epistolatory novels of yore.
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Mental Floss investigates a mystery that has haunted me for more than two decades. So, dear readers, all signs point to no: blowing in the cartridge did not help. My money is on the blowing thing being a pure placebo, offering the user just another chance at getting a good connection. The problems
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Jason Rohrer’s Diamond Trust of London requires you to bribe opposing diamond agents, all while your opponent bribes yours. It feels like a German board game, but playing on the DS makes secret decisions possible. Gus Mastrapa at Paste magazine discusses the game’s possible commentary on business t
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Via Joystiq, some excellent future-shock news for this first Monday of fall 2012. Just say that outloud. Fall 2012! We are actually already living in the future. Next year is flippin’ 2013! Ok: The patent, titled “Process and Apparatus for Automatically Identifying User of Consumer Electronics,” des
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Anodyne is a Zeldish adventure that eschews Hyrule (or some cousin thereof) for a world a measure more fantastical: the imagination of the hero, Young. For you, gentle reader, of the internet-addled cognitions and arid life of the mind, this will be quite a novel experience! Start slow, with a free
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An ambitious Kickstarter project called Brainworth wants to make a set of games that will teach principles of computer science. Games in development have players developing an AI to play Snake for them and making behavior trees. You could just play RoboZZle if you like ordering commands, but a frien