The fellows behind Cards Against Humanity, the awesome-Apples-to-Apples-with-a-filthy-mind game, released a pay-what-you-see-fit holiday pack, and it’s netted a neat profit of over $70,000. Instead of buying all the boar sperm and condoms they could – and they could have bought a lot – CaH LLC dona
Sick of Guild Wars 2 yet? Tired of MMO after MMO which just rehashes the same old thing? Maybe it’s time the mold was broken. Erik Kain’s Monty Python and the Holy Grail MMO may do the trick. Here are a few selections from he laid out in exquisite detail earlier this year: Knight (class) Knights are
Virtual world research Edward Castronova reflects on Star Wars: The Old Republic failed to attract enough paying customers, while EVE Online continues to thrive. The secret is context and design: What makes a world different from a game? Well, in a world, there’s downtime and exploration and life. D
I spent a lot of time working through Halo 4 last week and man, there’s a lot of crazytalk. What the Didact, Composer, or “rampancy” actually means is not significant, but it did remind me that we put up with a lot of made-up language when we deal with sci-fi. Ultimately, none of this really matters
At the beginning of Resident Evil 2, Leon, the game’s hero, encounters a pile of butchered bodies near the entrance to the Raccoon City Police Station. As you explore the prerendered, fixed-camera scene, one of hundreds in the first few RE games, you have the option to interact with a bank of phones
It’s not the time for us to write about what happened in Connecticut. It’s not the time, in my opinion, for anyone to write speculatively about the role or lackthereof of video games vis a vis what happened in Connecticut. It’s just not right, not now, not with children still to be buried – and this
–Scott Reyburn, Inside Mobile Apps. Apple data from this year showed games continuing their domination of downloadable software for their devices.
Imagine: you live in a small town, a sunny place in the woods where some people have summer homes, little vegetable gardens, even a dairy cow or two. No one is rich but no one is hurting for cash, either. It’s such a sweet town that no one even bothers locking their doors. The only real problem in t