With the recent release of Angry Birds Space, developer Rovio has taken the game in a new direction by reimagining the physics, making gravity subservient rather than overpowering. If you’ve ever been curious about just how their model of gravity stacks up to the real one, Wired writer Rhett Alain h
Here’s something I didn’t know: The Mummy, the 1999 Brandon Fraser vehicle was based on a 1932 property of the same naeme. The property is being rebooted again by the original writer of Prometheus, the upcoming sci-fi film. With all this talk of rebeoots and 3D conversions, it’s hard to see any good
Videogames are going public! Over in Manchester street artist Filthy Luker, with some help from Red Stripe, has created an outdoor, wall-sized and playable version of Space Invaders. Luker adds a bit of personal flare to the game by using traffic cones, road signs and LED lights, “I’ve been obsessed
For the afternoon crowd: -Indie-hero Notch is bringing his next game into space. Apparently it has a weird title. –A new study shows that teens actually prefer social and mobile gaming to “traditional games.” –Shadownrun is finally coming back thanks to Kickstarter. David Gaider is really excited. –
The uncanny valley is a persistent problem looming ever larger on game developers minds as games become more eerily life-like and titles like Heavy Rain, LA Noire, and Uncharted reach for bold cinematic visuals. A new research them led by Ayse Saygin, a cognitive scientist at the University of Calif
For anyone who’s ever been grounded for staying up too late playing videogames (or really anything videogame related), just be glad you can say that games have never brought you this fate: A Cambodian dad is in trouble with the law after he chained his son to a power pole for skipping school to play
Before Zynga was everybody’s favorite company to hate, there was EA. Paul Tassi reminds us today in Forbes that this company is still the most evil of the evil empires for the game industry: I believe EA is a destructive force in the industry as their goal isn’t the make gaming more accessible and
Not much to explain here. Duncan Barclay designed this mashup of two life obsessions as seamlessly as mac n’ cheese. For Tower Defense fanatics in need of nostalgic realism, Maps TD is right up your alley. (Not to mention it makes good use of Google’s April Fools 8-bit Maps joke.) Defend the Eiffel