Gamers and other humans are understandably disgusted by the special edition of Dead Island: Riptide that comes packaged with a figurine of the legless, armless, headless, rock-breasted body of a zombie victim (no I will not include a picture of it), which publisher Deep Silver calls “a striking conv
Researchers at the University of Manchester and Oxford University have discovered that players of games of sufficient complexity – like chess and poker – do not always, or even often, make rational decisions, because it’s simply too difficult for their brains to measure all of the available options:
-Dean Hall, creator of DayZ, after learning that developers Ivan Buchta and Martin Pezlar had been granted bail following a 128-day imprisonment in a Greek jail. The two were arrested in September after Greek authorities charged them with espionage when they were seen filming a military base on the
We the People is the offically-sanctioned way to petition the Obama government: The right to petition your government is guaranteed by the First Amendment of the United States Constitution. We the People provides a new way to petition the Obama Administration to take action on a range of important i
The most surprising fact in The Economist’s interview with the CEO of Major League Gaming, the incomparably-named Sundance DiGiovanni? How about this: “I should point out that over 40% of our viewers have a household income over $100,000, so technically we’re a luxury brand.” DiGiovanni comes across
Ian Bogost, the game designer and academic who is the closest thing the medium has to a guru, announced yesterday on Twitter that he did not like last year’s time-travel actioneer Looper. Am I living on another planet or something? rottentomatoes.com/m/looper/ — Ian Bogost (@ibogost) January 14, 201
Makeb is a terrestrial planet with a type-1 atmosphere (breathable), and according to Wookiepedia, was invaded by the fearsome Hutt cartel during the second Galactic war. Fair enough. It’s also the only planet in Star Wars: The Old Republic, on which homosexuality exists. Yes, that’s right, BioWare
Remember Joyland? The 30 million-dollar, 600,000 square foot WoW-themed, unlicensed amusement park in Changzhou? Of course you do! Well, now that the park has been up and running for a year and a half, what does it look like? Like this! Mists of Panderia indeed!