Joseph Bernstein

Google study: very few people play tablet games while mid-backflip

A Google study of tablet use comes to some predictable conclusions: When U.S. tablet owners are playing games on their devices, they’re most likely sitting or lying down on a couch, according to a new Google study examining how consumers use tablets. The research paper, which seeks to provide an und

Why games should give us more ways to fail

Jim Rossignol has a great take today on why he wants to play Day Z, XCOM, and FTL so much more than Dishonored: the more ways there are to fail, the more invested he becomes in a game. Novelists and scriptwriters have understood this trick for years: piling problems on to the protagonist, in as many

Watch the explodey new trailer for Bioshock Infinite

I dare you to watch this without being tantalized. What’s that you say? This doesn’t excite you? Well stop reading my website, Mom. I’ll call you later, but you’re embarassing me in front of my friends.