In September we told you about Neocolonialism, the Catan-style computer game in which players try to become global financial hegemons. The game, we wrote, works as follows: To gain control over the world economy, players snap up regional sovereign bonds, which in the game’s shorthand, give their own
Once in a long while, a game appears that changes the way we think about gaming, about storytelling, about, I daresay, life itself. Soda Drinker PRO! is not that game. Instead, it’s a five-level first-person soda-drinking simulation (coded in a 19 hour binge of frenzied genius) in which you can 1.
I’ll admit that my experience with chess is basically limited to two frustrating eras: childhood summer vacations in which I got waxed by my stepdad in a house in Maine where we had nothing better to do than play chess, and in English class in 7th and 8th grade where Mr. Sotella liked to play with a
-From Edge’s hilarious and dark history of griefing, or multiplayer trolling.
Dark Souls was such a massive achievement that I think it actually led to the unfortunate consquence of rendering its predecessor, Demon’s Souls, obsolete in the eyes of many gamers who haven’t played it. It’s not uncommon for me to hear that someone has played and adored Dark Souls but does not see
Five or eight years from now, when Adrian Peterson retires from the National Football League, he may be considered the greatest running back in the history of football. What he did this past year is ridiculous: after tearing his ACL in December 2011, he came back to have the second-best statistical
From Metacritic.com’s “Best Games of 2012” feature. As we wrote in our game of the year list yesterday, 2012 may have been slight on AAA highlights but was undoubtedly rich with diverse gaming pleasures. This feature, crucially, does not measure the total number of “Good” games (defined as 75 and ab
From the San Francisco-based engineer and artist Rama Hoetzlein: