Today, Resident Evil 6 arrived in our office. We have a gentleman/woman’s agreement with Capcom not to publish anything about the game until October 1. So instead, we’re doing a comprehensive review of every aspect of the special packaging. Enjoy! Rust: There are streaks of a rust-like substance spa
Renga, the real-life multiplayer game/film/art installation named for an ancient form of Japanese collaborative poetry, is coming to New York. Creators Adam Russell and John Sear will present their work, in which audience members guide a spaceship with laser pointers, on Sunday at Lincoln Center. Th
Wired with the tale of a creator and the pupil who may just best him: Cavanagh congratulated Killingsworth over Twitter when he posted proof of his new high score. Even if he’s not the best at everything, Cavanagh still delights in having created a brutally difficult game. Only 19 of its roughly 50,
Mental Floss investigates a mystery that has haunted me for more than two decades. So, dear readers, all signs point to no: blowing in the cartridge did not help. My money is on the blowing thing being a pure placebo, offering the user just another chance at getting a good connection. The problems
Via Joystiq, some excellent future-shock news for this first Monday of fall 2012. Just say that outloud. Fall 2012! We are actually already living in the future. Next year is flippin’ 2013! Ok: The patent, titled “Process and Apparatus for Automatically Identifying User of Consumer Electronics,” des
Anodyne is a Zeldish adventure that eschews Hyrule (or some cousin thereof) for a world a measure more fantastical: the imagination of the hero, Young. For you, gentle reader, of the internet-addled cognitions and arid life of the mind, this will be quite a novel experience! Start slow, with a free
Anyone who plays college sports videogames will know the absurd experience of playing as athletes modeled faithfully in appearance and ability after current college players, who are referred in the game to only by number. This, of course, is a consequence of the NCAA’s prohibition against amateur at
1UP has a great take on the prurient Western conversation about Japanese sex games. This thoughtful piece both examines what our obsession with “perverted” Japan says about us, and the actual place of these games in Japanese culture. For the interested, a great companion piece is Richard Bernstein’s