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Katamari Damacy creator Keita Takahashi has lots of ideas for creative play. He’s tried his hand at playground design, and helped make the Flash-based MMO Glitch. Most recently, several of his game concept designs have been put into action at the Babycastles Summit, an arty games festival in New Yor
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The LA Times reports: Electronic Arts will promote the upcoming film “Zero Dark Thirty,” about the hunt for Osama Bin Laden, with a pair of downloadable maps for its military video game “Medal of Honor Warfighter.” The maps are both drawn from real locations in Pakistan; one is a gun market and the
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This post is part of a content series presented in partnership with smartwater. smartwater, simplicity is delicious. Technology may be making the world smaller, but as the computer scientist Vannevar Bush pointed out in his watershed 1945 essay As We May Think, it is also making the world infinitel
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Mass Effect was the subject of a lot of “videogames have arrived as a storytelling medium” claptrap over the past five years, and with good reason. The game had nuance and great characterization, fully-realized plotlines, and despite the protestations of thousands of ungrateful and petulant jerks wh
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David Bryne in the Daily Beast on the future of music. You could say the things about games and indie arcades, no?
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Terry Cavanagh’s first iOS game is utterly dizzying. His past titles VVVVVV and At a Distance play with distance and difficulty with easier measures, so it’s no surprise that Cavanagh’s turned up the crazy with Super Hexagon.
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From Wired, the ultimate NERF story: The ball was first released in 1970 in a small black box whose packaging urged, “Throw it indoors. You can’t damage lamps or break windows. You can’t hurt babies or old people.” Also, this:
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In addition to the series’ trademark cogent and tidy storytelling, the new Metal Gear game will now feature both night AND day. Is it possible that the day/night cycle is actually a conspiracy of global proportions, involving the collusion of a hopelessly corrupt sun? By Majora’s Mask, we’ll soon kn
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We’re not sure what came first — the name Jersey Shouroboros – or the concept of a giant snake eating the cast of the recently-cancelled Jersey Shore and then eating its own tail. Either way, Robert Yang’s crowd favorite from this year’s Global Game Jam is the stuff of nightmares. Humor is difficult
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Takeaways from the Times’ Saturday Valve profile: -Valve is working on a VR headset that appears to be in the same state of development as Larry David’s car periscope -It is strongly insinuated not rolling your desk around at Valve is a professional faux pas at best and a fireable offense at worst -
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Online gaming is a cesspool of racism, homophobia and misogyny. But at least gamers know it! A survey of 874 people on the Internet by the Emily Matthew at Pricecharting blog found that 80% of respondents believed sexism is prominent in the gaming community, and 35% had been targets of sex-based har
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Anindie developer has found an interesting approach to the marketing and price problem in videogames. The collection of irreverent minigames, McPixel, by SOS is promoting itself through the Pirate Bay, inviting those who can’t afford the game to pirate it this weekend. The idea is that more people w