One of our wonderful designers, Keenan Cummings, is also the designer for a new startup called Wander. We don’t know what Wander is, but we know what it has: sweet, sweet points. We suspect some type of cosmic farce at work here, but we’re not sure. Points are quite seductive after all and for those
In the same vein as the FoldIt project that deciphered a difficult AIDS enzyme, a new DARPA-funded military game will apply the same crowdsourcing approach to refine weapons systems: The goal is to create puzzles that are “intuitively understandable by ordinary people” and could be solved on laptops
Should game designers names go on their title’s boxes? A recent article from The Economist gives perspective on our traditional notions of “authorship” in a work of art: The notion of the artist as the sole creator of a work of art is actually relatively recent. In pre-Renaissance times the artist
How better to eulogize the late and great innovator Steve Jobs than create a creepily life-like action figure of him? Apparently, that was exactly the idea that Hong Kong-based company in icons had before they preemptively backed away from the intellectual property giants at Apple, explaining in a s
Well, its better than the prequels flashing before your eyes. With the mildly anticipated Bioware MMO Star Wars: The Old Republic on the horizon, no one, besides the regulars, paid attention as Sony aimed a Death Star-caliber ray at the original Star Wars MMO. On Dec. 15th, the long running Star War
More love for the Indie Game: The Movie coming down the pike. According to Deadline, Mega-producer Scott Rudin has acquired the film with HBO to turn the film into a comedy series. Pretty rad! UPDATE: On their Facebook page, the filmmakers have stated that the “comedy” designation was an internal HB
“Pixel Sand” is on Kickstarter right now, and it looks promising. Pixel Sand is both a game and a fantasy-physics simulation where you can take tons of different elements and mix them together to make your own ridiculous concoctions. With a strong emphasis on player creation, the game is vaguely re
For reviewers, assigning a game a score can be a sticky situation. The very act assumes that games are quantitative objects whose qualities can be cut into pieces and weighed, like a pig before a butcher. Start looking at a game too closely and the reasons you like it fall apart. Converting feelings