Tomorrow’s release of the mega-violent top-down shooter Hotline: Miami won’t generate much controversy, and the reason why is Grand Theft Auto. I’m not talking about Hot Coffee. Before CJ and before Tommy Vercetti, there was the manic bird’s-eye joyride of the first GTA, and the storm-of-the-century
My husband played all the Zelda games growing up, and when I bought him Skyward Sword I thought he’d love it. But he didn’t get very far, noting that “I feel like I’ve played this before.” For him, the pleasure of a Zelda game was not just figuring out what the game wanted, but exploring a world ful
Gamers my age (23) grew up with the Metal Gear series. It means different things to different people, but no matter what it meant, it marked time for a generation of gamers. This story recounts a life through each iteration of Metal Gear, beginning with Metal Gear Solid: Metal Gear Solid is a videog
Good Old Games (GOG) decided to make digital downloads analog. Take a look at “the GOGBook,” which is “literally as fast as light.” Okay, so this was a joke to promote the fact that GOG is selling games for the Mac now, but it was a good one.
This quiz game gives you the name of a cheese or a font and asks you to discern which one it is. It’s a fun way to realize that the two are weirdly similar. If you do well, you’re probably some kind of cheese or font snob, or both. It’s okay, we still like you.
Gamers are still in the honeymoon phase with Kickstarter. What happens when games never make it to launch? Kyle Orland at Ars Technica discusses Haunt‘s recent failure and what this says about the Kickstarter phenomenon: Over 1,200 backers helped Rick Dakan and the development team at Mob Rule Games
Have you ever wanted to make your own adventure game? Failbetter Games has created a tool called Story Nexus which allows you to craft your own text based adventure. And even if you don’t want to create a game, you can play other people’s. The adventure creation package requires no coding but allow
Howard Phillips, of Howard & Nestor fame, has started a Kickstarter for an educational game that distracts you from learning. Basically, image and audio are paired in tiles that players have to match up for score combos. The distraction of figuring out how to get a high score makes it seem like you’