So what do you do if you’re Capcom and somebody makes a Mega Man–Street Fighter homage? You could: A) Do what other big companies do and leverage lawsuits to squash the release and dissemination of the game. or B) Release the game for the creator. Generate a ton of buzz (positive instead of the neg
There are the kind of games like Call of Duty, which do little to spark serious contemplation about morality or violence. This is the norm. Text games, however, may have a little more insight than your standard AAA fare. Take 2007’s Rendition, whose title would not exist without the war on terror.
XCOM: Enemy Unknown is filled with death, no matter how carefully you plan or hard you try. Sometimes you make mistakes and other times it’s simply out of your control. XCOM‘s Facebook pages immortalizes the fallen. One of the achievements of the game is the pang of guilt when one of your soldiers d
Ever wonder what kind of internal insight your favorite NES games reveal? John Peck at McSweeney’s will tell you: Metroid: You have killed a mosquito with hairspray. Duck Tales: You have spelled out “BOOBS” with Alpha-Bits. Contra: You have wet the bed exactly twice: once as a child, once as an adul
In an interview with Wired, Ken Levine explained the box art of Bioshock Infinite as a means of courting the untapped segments of the market. Specifically: “We went and did a tour… around to a bunch of, like, frathouses and places like that. People who were gamers. Not people who read IGN. And [we]
