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With plenty of time to campaign before the November election, New Zealand opposition parties have taken to using computer games as a way to communicate their platforms to young voters. The Green Party reappropriated Tetris to warn against lignite coal mining, while the Labour Party took a decidely m
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Everyone wishes their parents were this cool. The above screenshot is taken from the start menu of what has got to be the most adorable game of the year so far. Sissy’s Magical Ponycorn Adventure is the result of 5-year-old Cassie’s imagination, and her father Ryan Henson Creighton’s technical assis
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?Here’s your daily dose of mainstream videogame news. – First details on FIFA 12 available here. – Party this fall on Jimmy Buffet’s Margaritaville for Facebook and iOS. – Sony might be teasing us with a new game. – Microsoft takes an alternative approach to dealing with a hacker. ?That was easy e
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Pitchfork came up with the 5-10-15-20 idea over two years ago to ask musicians about the music in their lives at five-year intervals. Our recent partnership with Pitchfork lets us do many things, one of which is apply that idea to videogame people. Today, creator of the Scott Pilgrim series, Bryan L
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The Jixi labor camp in the Heilongjiang province in China uses the repetition of Communist propaganda, trench digging and other forms of manual labor to “rehabilitate” it’s prisoners. But Liu Dali, a 54-year-old man imprisoned for “illegally petitioning” the central government for corruption, spent
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Here’s your daily dose of (mostly) mainstream videogame news. Minus the hassle. -Sony is being coy about its next platform. –Terraria hits 200 000 sales in 9 days thanks to word-of-mouth. –Minecraft for Android will come to Xperia Play first. -New download service “Little Indie” caters to indie game
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A computer game has gotten the chief of a right-wing Austrian party, the Styrian Freedom Party (FPÖ), into some serious legal trouble. Party leader Gerhard Kurzmann could face up to two years in prison for posting Moschee ba ba (Bye, Bye Mosque), which features questionable and offensive treatment o
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NHPR’s Jon Lynch speaks with educator Joel Levin about how the block-building indie Minecraft lets him design a wide-open curriculum. It’s a constructive game instead of a destructive game, you know. [The students] aren’t just blasting aliens, and I think that appeals to a lot of people, especially
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Now this is retro gaming. This “Cathode Ray Tube Amusement Device”, invented by Thomas T. Goldsmith and Estle Ray Mann in 1947, is one of the earliest examples of a videogame: Described it as a game of skill where a player sits or lies in front of a Cathode Ray Tube (CRT) mounted in a closet, the a
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Erik Wolpaw spoke with 1UP’s Mike Nelson recently about some of the creative decisions that went into making Portal 2, how GLaDOS came into existence, how Aperture Science is designed to evoke a certain tone, and how Chell’s gender was based on a coin toss: For Chell, it was almost literally a coin
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Unlike many first-person shooters, Bulletstorm doesn’t ask players to plod through a human meat-grinder with awkward mechanics. Rather, it allows them to swish easily through a cascade of gore and flailing body parts. Brian Howe talks about how this game is more fun than any action movie: Bulletsto
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No one yet knows who made this Pip-Boy 3000, the trusty wrist-worn HUD from the Fallout series. But whomever it was has mounted it with an iPhone. And has won our respect. See more images here. –Lana Polansky