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How many gamers learned of the Great PSN Crisis of 2011 when they vainly tried signing into their PSN accounts? Now that can all be avoided, because the PSN Status app has made it to the App Store: If you are amongst the millions of iPhone owners who also happen to have PS3’s, I’ve got the perfect
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Alien Trap’s Capsized wants to let you soar freely. It wants to give you the giddy joy of flinging your mini space marine into the despair of a gaseous hole. But Dennis Kogel reveals why Capsized, despite promising freedom of movement, is still too claustrophobic: For a short time, Capsized allows
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Here’s your mainstream videogame news for the day, made easy. –Australians who pre-order LoZ: Ocarina of Time for 3DS can get an actual ocarina and sheet music. -Developer Hothead Games announced a game based on The Hitchhiker’s Guide to The Galaxy book series. -The last remaining founder of the
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In theory, this sounds kind of interesting. NBC Universal’s SyFy Channel and game developer and publisher Trion Worlds will be bringing a new kind of T.V. show to the summer of 2012. The show, entitled Defiance, will follow the general plot of a future Earth populated both by humans and by aliens. B
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Do you own a cat? Do you also own a tablet? Now you can bring these two parts of your life together, because Friskies has released three new games designed exclusively for cats. The three games, Cat Fishing, Tasty Treasures Hunt and Party Mix-Up are the product of some serious feline research: “To
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Ever been told not to sit too close to a screen because it might damage your eyes? Researchers and the University of Manchester have found a way around that. Sort of. They have developed a new game that allows kids as young as four to sit still long enough for them to check for things like glaucoma
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The human brain is an elusive, enigmatic thing. It can produce stunning intellectual achievement or irredeemable inanity. It loves a good puzzle almost as much as it loves shiny objects. Dan Gould’s detailing of the psychological goldmine that are videogames shows how game designers know how to woo
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California’s Michael Ford likes to breathe life into dusty old arcade machines. But Ford decided to rummage through some of America’s older, dirtier forms of cabinet entertainment and make a good old-fashioned peep-show, spiffy and shiny and as dirty as it should be. He explains why he made it: “I b
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Jason Johnson sees James Silva’s The Dishwasher: Vampire Smile as a gory dance that toys with our expectations: We call it play, but our options in a videogame are generally so narrow that it feels more like being dominated. A cold and mechanical algorithm looms over us, and all we can do is push l
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Those familiar with the cinematic work of Takashi Miike may recall his gruesome productions Audition and Ichi the Killer. His work isn’t exactly known for being family friendly. But Miike, while presenting his new film, Hara-Kiri: Death of a Samurai at the 2011 Cannes Film Festival, suggested his up
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Renaissance man and GIRP creator Bennett Foddy spoke to us about making games, making music and being a philosopher at Oxford: I used to keep it a secret that I made games. I was worried that people would not take me seriously, but it’s gradually becoming a bit harder to keep it a secret … and I’ve
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When most people see a chatbot, they tend to ignore it. Clive Thompson, on the other hand, has a fruitful conversation with one that tries relentlessly to get his credit card number. Thompson has a very one-sided discussion with the bot, pondering the tests of Alan Turing and what it means to be hum