Videogames offer an unprecedented ability for their players to assume unique guises and forms of identity often unavailable anywhere else in life. But how do we separate ourselves as players of games from the beings we become in games? Gamasutra’s Tony Venice has a fascinating study of the question:
Remember the huge and ultimately inconsequential legal effort over limiting the sale of violent videogames in California? Lawmakers in the Sunshine State certainly do: Arnold Schwarzenegger and Jerry Brown, governor and attorney general at the time, supported appealing to the U.S. Supreme Court des
Back from the long weekend, here’s today’s big news. – A recently published patent has revealed that Sony may working on their own version of the Kinect. – French games site Gameblog noticed that Activision let slip that this year’s Call of Duty would be Black Ops 2. They were not happy about it. –
In case you missed it, here is the video that resulted from an internal, Skyrim-based game jam at Bethesda: The changes featured in the video range from aesthetic and technically challenging to new enemy types or player abilities (the ability to adopt children and ride a giant flaming horse-though s
A former animator for Guitar Hero and Amplitude, Antonio Bolfo was looking for something more meaningful in his life. So he became a NYC cop. “I wanted street-level experience, so I opted to be a cop,” he said recently. “I didn’t want to just ride a desk all day in the F.B.I. right off the bat. It w
There might come a single day in 2012 when I spend the afternoon checking out the 21 Jump Street redux starring Jonah Hill, make my way across town later that night to catch a reunited The Promise Ring for the first time in more than a decade, and perhaps close out the evening with the first version
Since the advent of intelligent discussion on gaming, the argument over the importance of gameplay and narrative has grown to be a tired one. Enthusiasts and theorists alike discuss at great length why gaming should be purely for the game’s sake or, hey now, games bear great potential to tell compel
The notion of game guides, the ideal accompaniment for any thorough gameplay, has never been all that varied over the years. In other words, the glossy step-by-step manuals that got you through the most difficult of challenges never saw much change when they were still necessary. Now, the internet m