The School: an essay concerning Tony Hawk’s Pro Skater
“We got this new game,” he said in biology class, “where you just get to wander around and skate.”
Sports
A hockey fan taught his living room to celebrate goals with a light show
The Montreal Canadiens’ season is over. Last night, following a 4—1 loss at the hands and sticks of the Tampa Bay Lightning, the Habs were eliminated from the National Hockey League’s playoffs. Their barren run of seasons without bringing home the Stanley Cup now sits at twenty two. Viewed in the li
They still don’t get paid, but student quarterbacks are now trained in virtual reality
It’s NFL draft season again, that magical time of year wherein prognosticators discuss the concussion-riddled future of young athletes for hours on end. One of the questions that invariably comes up during these interminable discussions is whether an athlete can “read the field” when he moves up fro
Baseball is back, and so is the most meditative series in sports videogames
MLB 15: The Show captures the lyricism of baseball.
Ping-Pong Go Round brings sport to the conference table
A new Ping-pong table design is one of many ways Forrest Gump could have been improved.
Watching sports from a more videogame-like perspective could reinvent them
In praise of the first-person view.
WWE 2K15 reveals the grueling life of a superstar
A harsh reality.
How four art kids from Melbourne created a bizarre new sport
Push Me Pull You came by its weirdness honestly.
NBA2K15 is both a marvelous basketball videogame and a douchebag simulator
The RPG and basketball genres come together.
NHL 15 highlights all the problems of annual sports games
Notes from the purgatory of menus.
What would The International’s crowd-funding model look like in traditional sports?
Esports leads the way.
A new Madden ignores and confronts all the NFL’s problems
How much reality should we demand from our videogames?
Dota 2 as religious experience
For spectators, The International 4 was sublime.
The International, Day 2 and 3: The Wily, Genius, Totally Average Superstars of Tournament Play
Do we worship the player? Or do we worship the game?
New Push Me Pull You footage is soccer for your intestines
The natural end of two-player sports is upon us.
Esports could learn a lot from the World Cup
Turning games into global events.
The World Cup is here; its videogames never left
Speak, nostalgia.
Cortana is pretty good at predicting World Cup winners
Cortana—everyone’s favorite blue-skinned malfunctioning AI buddy from the Halo games—has a knack for predicting World Cup soccer matches, it seems. Since Microsoft has adopted her voice as the equivalent of Siri for Windows phones, she’s carrying out all kinds of non-shooting-oriented voice commands
Watch a paralyzed teen in a mind-controlled robot suit make the inaugural kick at the World Cup
The World Cup was won on the first kick.
Oh look, a soccer videogame with guns
Because guns.
In Trials Fusion, we are all murderers
What does the future look like for motorcycle trials? Short answer: not good.
Huzzah! The X Games are giving esports a trial run in June
The X Games will be hosting an inaugural esports tournament when they come through Austin on June 6-8, spotlighting pro gamers alongside the likes of professional skaters and motorcrossers. They’ll even be awarded X Game medals. See, Bryant Gumbel: we told you that esports were cool. The move makes
Nintendo layers on the zaniness in Mario Golf: World Tour
Also discussed: Golf (the NES game).
Watch a Japanese robot school Obama at soccer and dance a terrifying victory dance
As part of his visit to Japan, the President recently kicked around the soccer ball with Honda’s Asimo robot at a science museum in Tokyo. Let me tell you, there are few things stranger than seeing a very athletic Commander in Chief being subjected to the superior ball-handling skills of a humanoid
Lethal League is the fighter where you nail friends with fastballs
A bullet point for Lethal League is “no weak shit,” and that’s the truth. The still shots aren’t much to look at, but the announcement trailer for this alt-sports game from Reptile Games is sizzling. It’s a solid minute of two characters slinging a ball or puck or other dangerous round thing at each