Here are the things you can do in Bientôt l’été (Soon, the Summer), the new art game from Belgian developer Tale of Tales: -Walk on a beach -Close your eyes -Run with your eyes closed -Find objects on the beach -Watch your house change sizes and shapes -Read and listen to cryptic conversations in Fr
Paige Johnson is always looking for unusual playground motifs at her blog Playscapes. This time she’s found turtles in playground design around the world. The above picture comes from Mongolia; below is a turtle fountain from South Korea. Maybe turtles’ general harmlessness makes them a good compani
What happens when you mix an RPG and a shooter to make a game like Borderlands 2? Nick Dinicola at Pop Matters wasn’t too fond of the love child: At the risk of sounding misanthropic: I hated it. In my experience, groups of two or more tended to play Borderlands 2 as a shooter, while I still wanted
Well, this is just flippin cool: a new iPhone app allows you to upload Minecraft-created objects onto the real world, and view them using an augmented reality interface. Check it out: For me, this is a very significant development. Among my plans: turn my basement apartment into the Playboy Mansion,
Guillermo Del Toro’s game project may have gotten the axe from THQ during the publisher’s blood-letting this year, but the director naturally has new projects in the works. Rise of the Guardians will be out soon and that gave the Del Toro a chance to wax philosophically about what makes good stories
To all of our readers, friends, family, enemies, frenemies and pets, HAPPY THANKSGIVING, or as it’s affectionately known, Jewish Christmas. Please eat more food than is comfortable, drink more beer than is advisable, and play more games than is acceptable. We’ll see you on Monday, when, coincidental
Making a scifi game lets you bend all the rules. You don’t have to use real science at all, but it’s rewarding when the genre takes a page out of a real textbook. While playing Waking Mars is a balance of flora, developing it is about the balance between real science and making a fun game. “After w
In Indie Game: The Movie, several developers mention how their intended audience is themselves. Nabokov also claimed, “I write for myself in multiplicate.” Mark Danielewski’s House of Leaves starts off with the dedication, “This is not for you.” The developer of the protest game In a Permanent Save