If you’ve not seen it yet, the trailer for a Russian indie game called Stealer is the best game trailer I’ve seen this year, by a wide margin: So who is the man who made this utterly beguiling combination of Limbo, Hotline: Miami, and Blade Runner? The developer goes by the nom de game Winged Doom a
When Disney acquired LucasFilm in October, coverage naturally, and rightly, focused on Star Wars. It’s important to remember, though, that LucasFilm and its sundry subsidiaries have been home to an enormous amount of talent over the decades, that a lot of that talent no longer works there, and that,
Say what you will about Assassin’s Creed 3, and we said a lot, the setting was inspired. Colonial American has not gotten a lot of love over the years in games. In fact, it is only the second game I’ve ever played set in the time period. The first, 1996s Conquest of the New World, was a Civ-style st
My post earlier about competitive gaming, about pushing yourself to the limit in the name of games, brought back a memory. I’m not sure if I’m proud or ashamed of what happened in the fall of 2008, but I want to confess. I was late to the next (current) generation party. Though I first saw a 360 in
Last year we profiled the righteous Finn and game developer Petri Purho, the man behind Crayon Physics Deluxe. That delightful puzzle game, with its Kindergarten-drawing aesthetic and drawing mechanic, originally dropped in 2009 and has come out over various platforms since then, mostly recently as
Jenn Frank wrote a tragic and beautiful piece about the death of her mother. It reads the way your mind reels after a tragedy. It’s that flurry of emotions where you feel every kind of awful: angry, regretful, hopeless and helpless. Here is an excerpt: I’d worked so hard to improve my mother’s condi
Earlier this week I speculated about the reason for the rise of Twitch and the new games voyeurs, people who watch others play competitive online games, live, from far away. Shortly after I wrote the piece, a friend suggested the real reason millions of people watch League of Legends and Starcraft r
Boy do I want a Vita. I always wanted a PSP, but being an aspiring videogame journalist (poor) and already possessing a DS, I never could justify it. Then the Vita came out I promised myself I was going to buy it when the price dropped. The price dropped, but at that point about 1000 articles scryed