PAC-MAN never had a great story. Yellow circle runs from ghosts, then eats them when they turn blue. Project Yellow Sphere elucidates the issue. – – – In the last 10 years or so, the internet has lit up with fan-made takes on the PAC-MAN mythos, casting him as everything from a motorcycle-riding vi
Adventure games from the 1990s have a certain aesthetic that draws on comic art. Uno Moralez’s GIFs evoke a gothic horror videogame that never existed. The floating head probably needs you to fetch her an eyeball before she’ll tell you where the secret society’s hideout is. – – –
There are a lot of gut reactions going on when a scantily-clad lady appears in a videogame. Things like “she’s hot!” and also “she must be cold in that.” Some of us might sigh in exasperation and wonder if there will be any real ladies in the game. An essay at J. Shea’s blog urges us to reconsider
Many good multiplayer games require expensive things like four controllers for a PS3 or a high-end PC. But for those of us with old computers, there are still multiplayer, non-Facebook games available. Pixel Prospector celebrates their fourth anniversary with a video of 44 free, multiplayer indie g
If your posessions were found in fifty years, what story would they tell? For one house in Japan, the ruins tell the story of a Western man with ties to the Queen of England who married into a Japanese family. Someone in the family didn’t like him, as he was cut out of some of the photos. Why did th
