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Sounds like the creator of REZ wants to make a free-to-play game

Tetsuya Mizuguchi, worshipped by some for creating the rave-y, transcendent, perception-melding Rez, has dropped some big hints about his next project in the latest issue of Edge. And it’s sounding surprisingly social. Consider the evidence:  One, his next game will continue the lineage of Rez and Lumines and Child Of Eden. So far, so great. Two, he’s currently helping out with some Japanese social games, but he plans to get back to his own new game in 2014 or 2015. Also, he says he’s looking at mobile games, and we’re of course down with that. Many mobile games are not…

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Does Trials Fusion have a hidden Soylent Green subplot? The evidence is pretty convincing

Trials Fusion is a mindlessly fun game about doing tricks on dirt bikes, in which you repeatedly and tirelessly crash to your death—the type of game you’d never expect to feature a morose, creepy plot about an unethical corporation cloning human bodies. But according to this theory on YouTube, all those crates are stuffed with lifeless cloned bodies that are revived in the cloning facility moments before you spurt off and suffer a spinal injury in a horrible crash, bringing an “It’s people!” twist to the concept of the extra man.  While this is very much conjecture, the video points…