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At SXSWi this year, I attended a panel titled “The New Aesthetic: Seeing Like Digital Devices” that featured Aaron Cope of Stamen Design, Ben Terrett of the UK Government Digital Service design dept., James Bridle and Russell Davies of Really Interesting Group, and Joanne McNeill of Rhizome. The id
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Video Swedish game designer Bertil Hörberg‘s Western homage to the side-scrollers of our youth is lovely little piece of mobile goodness. In the vein of classics like Rolling Thunder, the gameplay is quick and the rhythm is all about timing. It’s available for iOS and Android.
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I’ve had a million people send me Sam Anderson’s NYT Mag cover story from this weekend on the allure of “stupid games.” Let’s be clear: I’m not particularly happy that a medium that I love appearing on the cover of one of the world’s most respected and powerful news institutions being referred to as
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Here we go again! – BioWare will be releasing the extended ending DLC for free this summer. – Blizzard has come up with a tournament to rule them all and decide once and for all who is the best at Starcraft II. – The PS3 has added Amazon Video service. In more Amazon news, they’ve just announced ga
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The couture of Final Fantasy consists of characters with bountiful belt buckles who are overly zealous about zippers. This is what we’re accustomed to. The recent Final Fantasy XIII and Prada crossover however has gained a lot of buzz for how strange it is. The creative minds behind the project have
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The Strong Museum’s International Center for the History of Electronic Games (ICHEG) is one of the largest repositories for the preservation of videogames and play. Check out Tom Callaway’s blog post for a rare view into the collection. Keep in mind it’s only a small glimpse into a collection of ove
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With the recent release of Angry Birds Space, developer Rovio has taken the game in a new direction by reimagining the physics, making gravity subservient rather than overpowering. If you’ve ever been curious about just how their model of gravity stacks up to the real one, Wired writer Rhett Alain h
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Here’s something I didn’t know: The Mummy, the 1999 Brandon Fraser vehicle was based on a 1932 property of the same naeme. The property is being rebooted again by the original writer of Prometheus, the upcoming sci-fi film. With all this talk of rebeoots and 3D conversions, it’s hard to see any good
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Videogames are going public! Over in Manchester street artist Filthy Luker, with some help from Red Stripe, has created an outdoor, wall-sized and playable version of Space Invaders. Luker adds a bit of personal flare to the game by using traffic cones, road signs and LED lights, “I’ve been obsessed
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For the afternoon crowd: -Indie-hero Notch is bringing his next game into space. Apparently it has a weird title. –A new study shows that teens actually prefer social and mobile gaming to “traditional games.” –Shadownrun is finally coming back thanks to Kickstarter. David Gaider is really excited. –
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The uncanny valley is a persistent problem looming ever larger on game developers minds as games become more eerily life-like and titles like Heavy Rain, LA Noire, and Uncharted reach for bold cinematic visuals. A new research them led by Ayse Saygin, a cognitive scientist at the University of Calif
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For anyone who’s ever been grounded for staying up too late playing videogames (or really anything videogame related), just be glad you can say that games have never brought you this fate: A Cambodian dad is in trouble with the law after he chained his son to a power pole for skipping school to play