Joseph Bernstein

According to the comment thread in r/gaming, this big version of one of last year’s very best indie games was set up at Fantastic Fest in Austin. Heroic work.

The first act of Kentucky Route Zero, the new adventure game by Jake Elliott (our eminently talented web designer) and Tamas Kemenczy, is out today. KRZ is …a magical realist adventure game about a secret highway in the caves beneath Kentucky, and the mysterious folks who travel it. Gameplay is insp

More than twelve years after it released the system in North America, Sony will no longer produce new PlayStation 2s. The system, which sold 150 million units worldwide, was released in the United States on October 26, 2000. To give you a sense of just how durable Sony’s persistent black rectangle w

In September we told you about Neocolonialism, the Catan-style computer game in which players try to become global financial hegemons. The game, we wrote, works as follows: To gain control over the world economy, players snap up regional sovereign bonds, which in the game’s shorthand, give their own

Once in a long while, a game appears that changes the way we think about gaming, about storytelling, about, I daresay, life itself.  Soda Drinker PRO! is not that game. Instead, it’s a five-level first-person soda-drinking simulation (coded in a 19 hour binge of frenzied genius) in which you can 1.