When does the challenge of rules guide rather than impose in games as well as music? We talk to Will Wiesenfeld, aka experimental musician Baths, about the parallels between casual immersion in music and games, the results of demanding diversity in Mass Effect, and how to not break the “ghost rules.
According to a recent report from The New York Times, Resorts World Casino in Queens, NY is facing a continual slew of assaults by angry players against its gambling machines. “I lost $300 without a bonus, so yes, I broke the machine,” George Govan, a 56-year-old man from Brooklyn, told security gua
According to Epic Scents, a new company set to create air-fresheners of licensed videogame characters, Capcom’s Mega Man smells like “the essence of a boy put into a man’s role.” Um, ok. But what does that smell like? “There is a purity in him, he has a real pure heart,” Kavanaugh said, “but there i
“Whatever impels us to travel, it is no longer the oracle, the pilgrimage or the gods. It is the compulsion to be elsewhere, anywhere but here,” according to a recent piece by Ilan Stavans and Joshua Ellison in Opinionator. There are clear parallels to gameplay here— many gamers can attest to the da
Jake Edelstein is an American journalist who has spent his career covering crime in Japan. He’s recently been published in an interview on Edge, where he speaks about the ties between organized crime and gaming in Japan. When asked about yakuza influence on the booming social gaming industry, he res
