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And now that the leap day is over, we can all get back to work, cause come on, it’s a real day again guys. – Blizzard cut 600 jobs and though the vast majority of them had nothing to do with game development, that’s still sad news to hear. – There may be a new Baldur’s Gate game in the works. A teas
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Phil Kilcrease spotted the lack of farming games on the market and decided to make his own. The board game community on Kickstarter is really vibrant! -Jamin Warren
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Danny Birchall and Martha Henson of the Wellcome Trust have a little post-mortem on their game High Tea which had me intrigued just from its description: It takes the form of a strategy or trading game in which the player adopts the rôle of a nineteenth century British smuggler active in the Pearl D
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For anyone who’s encountered those bands of roving teenagers on Xbox Live, you know that unique blend of disgust & amazement that comes from hearing the ugly little things that come out of their mouths. Over at ReadWriteWeb, Alecia Eler tries to divine an answer for why we speak more freely on socia
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As if Lego Minecraft wasn’t enough, this lovely little Lego stop-motion montage of games of 2011 was built by Alex Dobbs for this past year’s AIAS Awards. -Jamin Warren
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In need of a ginormous Scrabble board? As in, bigger than an average-sized man. Because, who isn’t, right? Well, here it is… The only possible justification for owning this thing is that, your hands are too big for normal-sized wooden tiles? You are given to sudden growth spurts, such as Alice in Al
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Videogames, it is often said, are a “lean-forward” medium compared to other screen-based activities. Like music, games inspire movement and a kinesthetic attentiveness you don’t usually experience during the latest episode of Downton Abbey. And keeping your hands busy leaves less of an opportunity t
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The guy over at Video Games and Booze, the only blog (that I know of) that specializes in “the art of pairing video games with booze” recently took to matching an alcholic beverage to Nordic role-playing game The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim. Here’s what he had to say: fantasy games are among the easiest
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Even among the irascible and often insane candor of this campaign’s Republican presidential primaries, it was odd to hear Newt Gingrich take advantage of his short-lived frontrunner status to make an outlandish campaign promise to people the moon with American settlers in less than a decade. Gingric
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The Independent Games Festival finalist Prom Week is a simulation like few others. In SimCity, you are responsible for keeping traffic flowing and decreasing smog. The Sims is as much about taking pee breaks as it is about pursuing your life dream. But Prom Week cuts through the clutter and gets to
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One of the things that has always seemed to hold games back from becoming a rarified “art form,” to use that sticky term, is their long-time absence from the institutionalization of gallery and museum life. Recent developments in everything from the Louvre’s interactivity to the GDC’s own retrospect
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The people over at iam8bit productions have been making beautiful artistic depictions of videogames for a while now, but this has to be one of my favorite ones: roomba covers modelled off of classic mario characters. This is probably the greatest thing that’s happened to robot-assisted housecleaning