Interview
Videogames enter the post-WASD era
In praise of walking and looking.
portal
News
Only If considers the possibility that game narrators hate you
Only If is a game about playing games. And by that I mean you’re trying to escape from various rooms while a sociopathic narrator makes threats on your life via intercom. It’s kinda like 9 Hours 9 Persons 9 Doors in that way, or Portal, if you push it. Then, you hook a left around the armoire and wi
Review
The beguiling, sketch-like beauty of NaissanceE
Welcome to Art 101, kids.
News
Fract is what a videogame by Kraftwerk would probably look like
Partly a synthesizer, and partly a puzzle game, Fract is essentially Portal meets Kraftwerk. What I mean by that is you’re lost in a broken machine-world and play with glow-y neon sounds. And while it’s hard to compare any electronic music anywhere to the canonized output of Ralf Hütter and Florian
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Portal creator’s Soul Fjords cross-stitches rhythm and roguelikes on Jan 28th
The only reason I can figure Kim Swift is releasing Soul Fjord on January 28th as an OUYA timed-exclusive is because the little cuboid console fondly reminds her of the Portal cube. That, or money. In either case, we have the first footage of it in action, which you can scope at the 1:15 minute mark
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Reset will screw with your perception of space and time
One of the profound things about Portal was the surreal way in which it bent perception, when you’d be staring into a portal and seeing the back of Chell’s head. Reset, by Theory Interactive, takes that as a starting point, and things only get weirder from there. As seen in this reality-bending new
Article
The longest fan-fic ever written, Facebook disses, & Vick gets exalted in Madden 25
Who let the dogs out?
Article
Portal’s Kim Swift charts new territory with OUYA launch
Can Airtight Games’ creative director forge another hit?
News
The Beast and SKill face off, a robotic mixologist, and a wild intern appears!
No, Vivan Clark is not a lesser known Woody Allen film. It’s the sublime successor to Kill Screen fave Soda Drinker Pro! Metanet announced they’ve started work on the third game in the N franchise, entitled N++. They chose N++ instead of N+2 after receiving a stern warning from literary magazine n+1
Article
Why Gabe Newell and Steve Jobs are more alike than you think
It’s like the I’m a Mac, I’m a PC commercials all over again.
Issue 01
Video Game Feminist of the Decade
Why the Best Feminist of the Decade is You