We’re excited to announce an awesome event in conjunction with our partners over at Pitchfork for Soundplay, their interactive music-inspired video game series. On September 5, the New Museum in New York City will host the Soundplay Game Jam, where attendees can experience new Soundplay games develo
If you have a Minecraft world that’s somehow limited to a small space, it is possible to create a sustainable economy. The ever-essential wood can grow back and animals can reproduce. However, if players have goals other than survival in mind, they can get depressingly destructive. One Minecraft exp
Pinball is a strange arcade game. It’s played with physical objects, yet scores everything digitally. And it’s really hard to get good at. The new games criticism site, Bit Creature, published Ryan Winslett’s experience of playing pinball at a tournment. I stepped up to The Twilight Zone table and f
The roll-out of the NikeFuel band was one of the biggest marketing pushes from the last year. Nike spared no expense for non-traditional approaches. That includes this magical digital version of Pong released in Japan.
The cutscenes between levels in Touch My Katamari show an otaku of the worst kind. As he shuns his geeky self, he becomes more successful and happier in life. But what message is that sending to us geeks playing the game? CJ Melendez at the site Rely on Horror sees Katamari as a game specializing in
Most of the games that have been coming out lately seem to focus an awful lot on humans or humanoids. Animals are a completely neglected part of wilderness survival, except occasionally when they can provide transport or meat. Tokyo Jungle might be the antidote to all our human-centric game-playing.
PAC-MAN never had a great story. Yellow circle runs from ghosts, then eats them when they turn blue. Project Yellow Sphere elucidates the issue. – – – In the last 10 years or so, the internet has lit up with fan-made takes on the PAC-MAN mythos, casting him as everything from a motorcycle-riding vi