REVIEW: The brutality of war in all of its horror is on display in Fire Emblem: Awakening
Intelligent Systems new addition to the two-decades old franchise asks players how we cope with loss in life and in relationships.
Jon Irwin
Food scientists unwittingly diagnose why sometimes we can’t stop playing
This past Sunday’s New York Times Magazine features a remarkable story on the junk food industry and its many secretive struggles for our mouths. Though the author, Michael Moss, kept his focus on obesity and nutrition, I couldn’t help but notice a few startling parallels with the many videogames I
Does Vblank’s ROM City Rampage signal a shift away from Retro as a trendy aesthetic?
When we spoke to Brian Provinciano back in October 2011, he was nearing the end of work on his game Retro City Rampage, a parody of everything Eighties through the lens of a modern sandbox game like Grand Theft Auto (if that game came out for the NES). It was an ambitious project, especially for wha
Kenji Eno’s final game expressed a poignant philosophy of the bizarre
The games community lost a brilliant man far too soon last week when Kenji Eno, 42, died of heart failure. The name likely won’t ring familiar for many, but his contribution to the medium reaches farther than a recognizable face. Known for the horror games D and its follow-up Enemy Zero, his team pu
Sony’s PlayStation 4 and why numbers tell us nothing
Sony’s new Playstation has been outed. There was a lot of counting and pointing to large numbers. But do they mean anything at all?