Many videogame fans are used to the government trying to regulate their hobby, but the Obama administration appears to be embracing the form. Speaking at the Games for Health conference in Boston, Constance Steinkuehler Squire, a policy advisor for the White House Office of Science and Technology Po
At last capitulating to the growing digital hegemony, the hermitic, not-dead-yet novelist–whose beautifully explosive books (Gravity’s Rainbow, Mason and Dixon, The Crying of Lot 49) have left readers, writers, and critics in awe for the last half-century–is all-of-the-sudden fine with his books bec
With the beloved title Journey released on Playstation Network to critical and commercial success, indie developer darlings Thatgamecompany have wrapped up their three-game deal with publisher Sony. Now, with financing from VC firm Benchmark Capital, Thatgamecompany ventures forth to create their ne
Get a helmet, there’s a big storm of game news coming. –The Dark Knight Rises gets a mobile game. –Journey‘s Thatgamecompany raises $5.5 million to help develop next game. -Microsoft drops support for Gamescom and Tokyo Game Show. -Nintendo’s Satoru Iwata admits the company almost abandoned Wii U co
Tim Schafer, lead writer and creative director of some of the most inventive and moving adventure games ever (Grim Fandango, Psychonauts, Brütal Legend), writes beyond what his games show on the screen. His recent interview with On The Media–cut from a longer interview about Schafer’s multimillion d
Epic Games has created a new studio, Epic Baltimore, largely staffed by former Big Huge Games employees. Interviewed in a story for Eurogamer, Epic’s Mark Rein explains how Epic responded after hearing news of the studios demise. “Mike [Capps, President of Epic] is the total hero there. They called
Yesterday Blizzard finally launched the real money Auction House for Diablo III, an event the company had delayed a number of times, in part, to address issues with hacked accounts and people using improper gold farming techniques. While Blizzard continues to wrestle with these issues, the Auction H
Must women protagonists be role models before they’re seen as individual human characters? Writing for Think Progress, Alyssa Rosenberg considers the challenges of portraying women heroes in pop culture. “First, members of a minority group, or of a group like women that are a majority but are poorly