Yesterday at the Consumer Electronics Show, Razer announced the specifications for its gaming tablet, “Edge.” (No article; U2 string section be damned.) The “Pro” “Edge” will cost $1300 dollars (the base model will run you one G). Here are some things you could buy with that money, if you choose not
The rules of Indie Speed Run are simple: “Make a playable game in only 48 hours. Face judgment by industry professionals and your peers. Win loot.” Caesar’s Day Off, created by Benedikt Hummel, Marius Fietzek and Sabrina Winter for, is also simple. You play as the Roman Emperor, and you can do two t
Imagine a digital version of The Game of Life set in ancient Egypt. That’s 7 Grand Steps, a historical-family-dynasty board game of sorts. In the free demo, you move pieces (characters) across a spinning wheel with tokens corresponding to Copper Age skills like brewing, writing, and masonry. Landing
By now you’ve probably heard of one incredibly dedicated Minecraft builder’s quest to recreate the world’s continents at .06% of their actual size. So just how big is that. Permit us some back-of-the-internet-enveleop math, please. The size of all of the Earth’s continents is 57,393,000 square miles
The Kickstarter campaign for Radio The Universe seems to defy all the conventions of the crowd-funding site. There’s no dialogue in the video, there’s no name for the creator, and the pitch adds this amazing bullet about gameplay: “Players who die in-game die in real life.” That seems a little bit s
–Tomas Rawlings, designer of Syrian-rebel simulation Endgame: Syria. The game was recently rejected from distribution over the Apple app store.
The developers at Media Molecule have a penchant for texture. Their breakout franchise LittleBigPlanet oozes with tactile goodness, so much so that they practically invited a toy campaign all on their own. A couple of years ago, art director Kareem Ettouney regaled me with stories about the joys of
-Todd VenDerWerff explains his newfound fascination with the physical side of gaming. Might be we recommend Guts of Glory or Cards Against Humanity?