Joel Evan Green was diagnosed with a brain tumor at only twelve months of age. Doctors gave him four months to live. But he exceeded all medical expectations greatly, battling through multiple surgeries and another seven tumors. He lived on, strong, inside the sphere of love that his family had surr
There’s a heartbreaking documentary in the works on the equally heartbreaking game That Dragon, Cancer. The film is called Thank You For Playing and judging from the newly-released teaser trailer, it looks like it’ll be powerful stuff. Two independent filmmakers have captured the personal tragedy o
Whoa Dave! is one of those modern-retro games that makes you wonder if videogames weren’t close to perfect like 30 years ago. Deep down, all they really need is a setup mirroring Mario Bros., some pixel-y beasts hatching from eggs a la Joust, and a couple of players lapping up coins and trying to sa
Somehow the fact that the Amazon TV Fire is a game console didn’t come up until nearly 40 minutes into the press conference, which may be telling of where their priorities lie. As suggested by the “TV” part of the name, they want you to buy this device because Amazon Instant Video is more and more o
A gameophile’s dream come true (if that’s actually a thing), this aircraft-grade aluminum console plays NES and Famicom games and sure is sexy, but sexy in the way people fetishize sleekly designed electronic products, not, like, “sex” sexy. It’s called the Analogue Nt and is in essence a designer
LAZA KNITEZ!! is the sweet-looking deathmatch in deep space that implores you to wreck your friends’ spaceships, courtesy a collective in Copenhagen. (Just a disclaimer up front: one of the devs is our very own Tommy Rouse, whose name you might remember from our fantastic Samurai Gunn review, and wh
Can the sequel to a 2,000-year-old game resuscitate the OUYA, the hackable system the Internet willed into existence? You’d think not, but then again there’s no bigger name in games than, uh… chess? Ludeme Games is either really good at playing it straight or they’re really serious about this whole
The Ouya is a charming little system that hasn’t had much love. It garnered a lot of attention and excitement on Kickstarter, positioned as a console for the little guy, but it hasn’t made much of a splash since then. It’s now getting a shot in the arm, as Google has released a toolkit that makes i
Super Pole Riders is chaos squared, games are owning the ambient music genre, paranoia, psychosis, OOBE, genocide, PRISM, and a nightstand that plays Snake. What more could you ask for?
When Jo Lammert from White Whale Games handed me a controller to play Slayers, she might as well have stolen a C-note from my wallet. – – – The transaction was like a good Pixar joke: To her, she was giving me a fun thing to play; to me, I saw the act though an adult’s eyes, calculating investment a
Yes, there’s an old-school brawler starring graffiti artists from the Lower East Side. I <3 NY. Papo & Yo creator Vander Caballero has revealed Silent Enemy, a game that takes on the ills of bullying, so have the tissue paper handy. – – – We now know the complete lineup of launch games for Ouya. Ch
After three weeks of incredibly difficult deliberations, we are proud to announce the winners of the CREATE Game Jam! We were so impressed with the depth of quality and variety of submissions, and hope that this is a preview of great things to come for the OUYA. For those of you who haven’t checked
In case you haven’t been following along, we hosted a 10-day online game jam in January, inviting game designers from all over the world to build their best prototypes for the upcoming OUYA game console. Exceeding our wildest expectations, we received 165 phenomenal submissions, spanning every genr
