Matthew Davis & artist/designer Justin Ma have taken their talents to build the IGF-nominated Faster Than Light. But now they need your help to finish the project once and for all. They explain: Many games have tackled the goal of recreating the feeling of space operas, but few have focused on the
I think I might be the only person who genuinely enjoyed Lulu, last year’s Metallica/Lou Reed joint album. Lots of people were upset with how the album was basically a latter-day Lou Reed album with Metallica fucking around in the background, but once you get past your preconceived notions of what t
And with Monday winding down, here’s today’s gaming news: – Pokémon White 2 and Black 2 have both been announced as the next Pokémon games. – Resident Evil: Operation Raccoon City is coming out March 20th for PS3 and Xbox 360, but PC fans will have to wait until May. – Borderlands 2 has released de
The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao is certainly one of the coolest, most bizarre books ever to win a Pulitzer-it seemed like you needed to take constant trips to Wikipedia to understand the whole thing if you didn’t have a working knowledge of Lord of the Rings, Dungeons & Dragons and also Latin A
Writing biography is hard. Basically, you have to learn about every single part of a person’s life and then filter out the boring stuff, which must be maddening. In a recent interview with The Millions, Scott Donaldson, who’s written biographies of F. Scott Fitzgerald, Earnest Hemingway and Winfield
The contents of this article are not meant to be taken as serious medical advice! Mankind has always been competitive; first for food, then women, then territory, and finally just for fun. Games have codified competition into ritual, but whether it’s pick-up basketball or the Olympics, man’s desire
We’re sad to report that Steve Kordek, the inventor of the two-flipper pinball machine, died last Saturday at the age of 100. He will be missed. Time reports: In an interview with the New York Times, Pinball author Roger Sharpe says the two-flipper design was only part of Kordek’s revolutionary cont
Here’s the rest of today’s news: – Sega released a teaser suggesting that Jet Grind Radio is coming to Xbox Live Arcade and Sony Entertainment Network at some point. – SEN is going down for scheduled maintenance next week. – Blizzard may be working on a free-to-play game, Everquest is going free-