Henry Crouch

EA joins a coalition to repeal DOMA (Defense of Marriage Act).

EA, one of the largest gaming companies in the world, hasn’t always been publicized in a positive light, but they continue to assert a supportive stance on LGBT diversity. As controversy around the Defense of Marriage Act— a law that defines marriage as between one man and one woman on a federal lev

Why modern HDTVs are ruining precision-based gameplay.

PaRappa the Rapper has always been a hard game, but now it may be harder than ever due to a common issue of display-latency in HDTVs. The HDTV’s fatal flaw lies in its many filters: deep-blacks, vivid colors and high-resolutions may look fantastic, but the amount of post-processing power required to

Eddo Stern makes art-games about game-life.

Eddo Stern is a multimedia artist working around the politics and philosophies of games, and the games of politics and philosophy. In a review of his recent exhibition at Young Projects in LA, Sharon Mizota makes note of two games displayed for public play, Darkgame and Goldstation, which touch on e

Rayman Legends hands players the baton, pushes composition over competition.

video At a recent press preview in NYC, I had a chance to demo parts of the upcoming Rayman Legends, a follow-up to 2011’s Rayman Origins. Legends‘ gameplay will be familiar to fans of Origins, only slicker: it carries on Origins’ distinct, painterly art style, now with even more refinement and the