Hotline Miami doesn’t seem like an easy sell. True, the first postmodern game is my favorite of the year, and its Drive-meets-Scarface-meets-Smash TV aesthetic scratches an itch for a lot of weird dudes like me. But come on: it’s a top-down, grotesque kill fest with a meta-meta plot and it’s only av
Despite an ambivalent intial reception, Metro 2033, the cult-favorite Russian shooter set in a postapocalyptic Moscow subway system, received 2010 game of the year discussion from no less an authority than Tom Bissell. THQ’s financial misfortune – which has already led to that publisher’s great humb
Though many games develop themes of environmental preservation (and in fact, in one of the most beloved games of all time, Final Fantasy VII, you actually begin the game as an environmental terrorist. How weird is that??? Ok.), the crossover between gaming and the environmental movmenet isn’t notabl
Photo: Agence France-Presse The Syrian rebels, deep into the second year of their struggle against the repressive Assad regime, don’t have the resources of a national armed forces; they have to improvise. This AFP piece gives the layout of the homemmade Shams II armored vehicle, which is a: fully-en
-Brad Bushman, professor of communication and psychology at Ohio State University, whose new study found that college students played violent games for three days in a row demonstrated increased aggressive behavior, while those who played nonviolent games did not.
