Boulder Dash meets Bejeweled?
Pushcat raises the stakes on match-3 games by including enemies and side-scrolling levels. The chiptunes Mussorgsky is, additionally, completely rad in a classical music nerd way.
Rachel Helps
295 postsThe Walking Dead is still breaking hearts
Telltale’s zombie adventure game The Walking Dead requires players to make tough decisions, like when to kill an infected human. The fourth episode in the five-part series drove Kotaku’s Tina Amini to her limits. What a powerful, emotionally evocative game The Walking Dead is. When I play games I ty
3DS ads assure us that 3DS gamers aren’t "gamers"
In promoting the 3DS, celebrities descibe themselves as anything but gamers. Wired’s Ryan Rigney explains why: Being a “gamer” isn’t cool. It never has been, and the surging popularity of mobile games will never change that. Most people, even those who play lots of videogames, are just unwilling to
What’s a good game for a teenage girl?
Recommending good games is one of the easiest pleasures that comes from having a little expertise as a game player. When G. Christopher Williams’s daughter asked for a game to play, he chose Prince of Persia. I felt pretty sure that she would enjoy the premise of two fantastical characters, like th
The many sand sounds of Journey
Journey‘s soundtrack is a gorgeous orchestral opus; but did you notice all the sand sounds and flapping sounds? Sound designer Steve Johnson shared some of the creative process behind making the sound effects for Journey at Gamasutra, not unlike our piece on Diablo III‘s sound effect production. All
TYPE A: Space Invader keyboard mosaic
Pixel art can take many forms, from cross-stitch to hama beads, but this is the first time I’ve seen it done with keyboard keys.
Mangle your nostalgia with E.T. turned city sim
Remember how E.T. made scary aliens into something relateable? Or how exciting it was that other children had a cosmic adventure? Well forget those parts of the movie that you liked, since none of them feature in the new E.T. game for iOS. At VentureBeat, Jeffrey Grubb assures us, at least, that the
Watching inexperienced gamers is hard; not telling them what to do is harder
Ed Smith let his girlfriend play Heavy Rain, and then proceeded to tell her how to play it. I mean, come on! She hadn’t found all the FBI agent’s clues! She hadn’t even examined the body! I try to explain that she’s an FBI agent, that a boy’s been murdered; I’ll be damned if any serial killer is goi
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