Love the thrill of being stalked, but not the consequences? PerambuLit lets you duck around the corners and into cafes to avoid imaginary stalkers and suspicious stranger. This alternate-reality game turns a tour of downtown Boston into a suspenseful Choose-Your-Own Adventure. Just think of it as an
If you’re wondering why it looks like that, that’s just the touch-screen capability. This thing’s still in its early stages, so don’t get too excited. Judging from the schematic, here are some other things this could possibly be: Periscope Woodchipper Half an upturned aqueduct Meatgrinder What you’d
Come celebrate New Atari Games: Innovative Leisure with So Percussion, Calder Quartet, Skeletons, Diamond Terrifier and DJ Andrew WK. You’ll be able to play new games for the Atari 2600 by Sonnie Ray Tempest, Ed Fries and Simon Quernhost. Come play with us!
This is a bit older, but worth revisiting. David Kociewski recently wrote a column for the New York Times focusing on how Electronic Arts used savvy accounting practices to reduce the amount they owe the federal government by millions, by combining the various breaks available to companies in differ
There has been a lot of talk about how developers can use game mechanics and game design to be expressive of the human condition. If you need a point of reference, just think of Jonathan Blow’s Braid and Jason Rohrer’s Passage. Recently, Michael Thomsen wrote an article about it for our site. Still,
HTML5HTML5360p MP4Flash Mars is not in black and white. Listen to the sounds of the wind as it pushes the little Mars Rover around and makes you question the totality of existence. Or something. [via]
Your drummer and bassist refuse to speak to one other, and your lead singer has spearheaded a floundering solo-project. So what? It’s time to get the band back together. Kill Screen is co-sponsoring Chicago Loot Drop, a totally rockin’ Rock Band 3 competition at Reggie’s Rock Club on November 20th.
Golf is an inherently simple sport: Hit the ball, see if it goes in the hole. If it doesn’t, repeat until it does. It also comes packaged with a Byzantine set of rules, many of which seem designed to punish you for doing nothing wrong. Now, two of the more insane penalties-namely the player being pe