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Good news! Sportsfriends, the collection of excellent, offbeat local mulitplayer sports titles – from headliner JS Joust to Bennett Foddy’s awesome and cheekily-named Super Pole Riders, has hit its $150,000 Kickstarter funding target. We told you about the collection last month, in a conversation wi
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There were much better games for the PlayStation than Legacy of Kain: Soul Reaver, but perhaps none I remember more vividly or more fondly. From the opening cinematic on, this game owned my life. Oh, yes, that cinematic, to my mind the best one of the 32-bit era, by a wide margin: Dear lord. Ok, so,
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It’s called Teleglitch and it looks like this: The plot sounds like the best movie never made: See the future where humanity is controlled by cold, dark mega-corporations. One of them is Miliary Technology Incorporated (aka Militech), one of the world’s largest military research organizations, speci
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It’s almost as hard to get Rockstar head honcho Sam Houser to talk at length as it is to get a picture of him – only a handful are floating around the internet. That’s why Edge’s quasi-oral history of GTA: Vice City with Houser is such a coup. This thing is full of gems, but my favorite is the story
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Everyone thinks gamers are lazy, but we’re the only people on the couch moving: our fingers, and what with this newfangled motion sensing technology sometimes even our arms and entire bodies. Sony aims to fix that. They’ve filed a patent for eye tracking contact lenses using magnets and mirrors and
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Thirteen years ago [ed: !!!], the beloved and tragically short-lived NBC dramedy, Freaks and Geeks, had its magical run. Thanks to its availability on Netflix instant and a truly terrific Vanity Fair oral history, the show is having a real moment right now, and justifiably so. Gallery 1988 in LA is
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-Industry analyst Michael Pachter on Activision’s failure to properly monetize their cash cow.
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That blue sliver about a third of the way from the top? First-Person shooters. It would be fascinating to overlay that graph, which is a proportional breakdown of all games released by genre, with a proportional breakdown of total revenues by genre. My major takeaway from the second graph is just ho
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-The British journalist Steven Poole, writing for Edge, on the dominance of the corridor in games, from the “jungly corridor” to the “war-torn city corridor.” A great read.
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That’s the question asked in a long, fascinating, complex post on the Frictional Games (Amnesia, Penumbra) blog today. The problem according to the writer, is that modern adventure games have fallen into two categories – the Puzzle Approach and the Linear Plot approach – and each presents nagging li
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Journey, Thatgamecompany’s lovely co-op adventure (which certain segments of our office sitting to my right did not particularly enjoy) was nominated for a Grammy today in the Best Score Soundtrack for Visual Media category. Its competition – the Dark Knight Rises, Hugo, Tintin, The Girl with the Dr
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A recently published study in the journal Cyberpsychology, Behavior and Social Networking found that people who use multiple media, like playing a video game while surfing the internet, are predisposed to depression and anxiety. The researchers, from Michigan State university, aren’t sure which way