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Video Another great catch from E3. Might and Delight’s Pid is a charming, cartoonish 2D platformer starring a young boy who finds himself on a mysterious planet where he must search for a way home. In the opening minutes of gameplay, our protagonist is given the power to cast beams of light which al
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There has always been an apocalyptic appeal to Call of Duty games, from the fire-lit night shootouts of the first game to the collapse of the Eiffel Tower in Modern Warfare 3. Seeing the edifices of modernity reduced to a smoldering aftermath answers a morbid “what if?” that we can never seem to get
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Slate advises on the right and wrong ways to name your galactic vessel. (Icarus is a terrible one): Otherwise, if you’re taking on a mission of vital or, let’s say, hubristic scale, the names of Greek tragic figures should generally be avoided. Bellerophon, for example. Sure, he was pretty mighty, a
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video One of the key charms of Borderlands was its ability to visualize everything that was happening onscreen, from the satisfying blip of evaporating health points that appeared with every bullet strike to the colorful beacons of light that marked dropped loot after a firefight. The Borderlands 2
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Wow. Remember that 16-bit episode of Community. An industrious Reddit user has turned it into an actual game. Enjoy it now before some funsucker at NBC takes it down. [via AV Club]
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Video SCP-087 is a first person horror game where all you do is walk down stairs. Or, to be fair, you decide to walk down stairs. As you get further down, you may begin to hear some things that aren’t very promising, or think you saw something out of the corner of your eye, it’s up to you to decide
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Shooters are so saturated in videogame culture that you can almost imagine how a whole game will play out based on a few short glances. A military shooter in a sand-swept Middle-Eastern city: this will be familiar turf for a lot of people. Spec Ops: The Line wants to unseat a lot of those predictabl
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Nick Berry spent ten years at Microsoft’s Casual Games division, and now is the president of DataGenetics, a data mining company based in Seattle. But in his spare time, he decodes the mysteries of board games like Battleship. Although the film adaptation had a lackluster opening this weekend, that
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A sad loss and a man who certainly inspired a generation of game designers. NYT describes Bradbury as a shrewd popularizer of science-fiction: Mr. Bradbury was hardly the first writer to represent science and technology as a mixed bag of blessings and abominations. The advent of the atomic bomb in
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Brian Lam explores the proper manners around a wide variety of digital activities including using your phone on first dates, running with your phone, and, of course, our favorite, using your tablet public transportation: This isn’t etiquette so much as fear mongering: Grip your tablet tight and be a
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video Periodically the calls went out for Nintendo to build an actual theme park. Like Disneyland, fans craved a magical environment where Mario, Link, and Donkey Kong became incarnate creatures inhabiting the open spaces between roller coasters and gift shops. For its forthcoming Wii U console Nint
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The Economist praises misfits for their eccentricities. From quants to hackers to Jobsian acolytes, all hail the Disorganization Man: Wired magazine once called it “the Geek Syndrome”. Speaking of internet firms founded in the past decade, Peter Thiel, an early Facebook investor, told the New Yorker