FlipboardIcon version of the Flipboard logo Am I Dead? | Unwinnableunwinnable.com - Matt Marrone Do you ever wonder what happens to those Words with Friends rivals when you move on to other apps?
Play buttonNo Man's Sky No Man’s Sky players build wild cyberpunk city that you gotta seePolygon - Patricia HernandezReplicant City is probably the closest thing No Man’s Sky has to Times Square, but in space. Looking at it, you’d think that someone at Hello Games must put the locale together, but no. Replicant City
Product Reviews Eliza explores the dangers of on-demand digital therapyPolygon - Jeff RamosBeing able to access stress-free mental health care can be challenging. Eliza, the first visual novel from Zachtronics, the developer of Exapunks and Opus Magnum, explores a reality where digital therapy
Metal Gear How Metal Gear Eschewed Realism to Convey the Horror of Imperial Violencefanbyte.com - Moira Hicks The Department of Homeland Security was established November 25th, 2002. Immigration and Custom Enforcement was established March 1st, 2003. The War …
Anti-Social Behavior RE:BINDrebind.io - Emily Rose I’ve been playing a lot of RUST lately, and it’s left me reflecting on both the works of Joseph Conrad and the various interpretations they’ve …
Candles Affection: A Touching Lesson in Vulnerability | Sidequestsidequest.zone - Angie Wenham Affection is a card-based, turn-taking game with a simple aim: be as vulnerable as possible. I am probably the least-equipped person to do this. I’ve …
Ghost Recon What to do when Bolivia hates yougamesindustry.biz - Lewis Manalo Tom Clancy's Ghost Recon Wildlands is an open-world shooter released by Ubisoft in 2017. You play as Nomad, an American special operations soldier …
Play buttonGaming 'Samurai Shodown' Could Be the Breakout Game at Evo. Here's Why. - VICEVICE - Aevee BeeIf you have seen the following scene from Sanjuro (1962) in which Toshino Mifune bisects Tatsuya Nakadai, or any of the one hundred thousand shots it influenced across every sword fight in every movie
Vlambeer’s ‘Super Crate Box’ and Pixeljam’s ‘Glorkian Warrior’ Both Arrive on GameClub Early Accesstoucharcade.com - Jared Nelson GameClub continues to fire on all cylinders and to cap off the week they’ve released not one but TWO great classic mobile games that were previously …
Did Trying to Beat Super Smash Bros Kill Power Stone?fanbyte.com - Chelsea Cruz If you had a Dreamcast, you owned Power Stone. It’s as simple as that. Capcom’s 1999 arcade port presented players with a range of whimsical …
PlayStation GTA Online players won’t stop killing the casino valetPolygon - Cass MarshallGrand Theft Auto Online has introduced a new casino, where players can unlock fast race cars or a fancy penthouse apartment. That’s pretty cool, but none of it would be possible if it weren’t for this
Play buttonSubculture Inside Killer Queen, the addictive arcade sensation that’s spawned its own subcultureThe A.V. Club - A.A. DowdIt’s Saturday afternoon at Logan Arcade, and all eyes are on a blue cartoon bee in a stripped sweater, slowly riding a snail past a goal line. This isn’t an unusual spectacle at the Chicago arcade bar,
Morality Deep Dive: Burdening players with the power of the system in Legal Dungeongamasutra.com - Joel Couture The Gamasutra Deep Dives are an ongoing series with the goal of shedding light on specific design, art, or technical features within a video game, in …
Sekiro Automachef review - "2019's most challenging game yet is also one of its best"pocketgamer.com Automachef has come closer to breaking me than any game I can think of in recent memory. It serves up such a staggering amount of freedom and number …
FlipboardIcon version of the Flipboard logoNASA NASA Historian considers Kerbal Space Programgamasutra.com • Sucker Punch Productions QA Manager • Sony PlayStation Global Partner Marketing Manager • Hi-Rez Studios Senior Technical Artist • Hi-Rez Studios Senior Sound …
FlipboardIcon version of the Flipboard logo The Food Programme: Playing with Food: The world of video game gastronomy on Apple Podcastsapple.com
App Store 'Sky: Children of Light' from thatgamecompany Hits the App Store a Bit Ahead of Scheduletoucharcade.com - by Jared Nelson The road to the App Store for thatgamecompany’s Sky: Children of Light (Free) has been a long and winding one. The new game from the studio who …
Breaking down Snake’s motivations in Metal Gear SolidPolygon - Ed Smith[Ed. note: Out today at itch.io, Okay, Hero is a book analyzing the Metal Gear Solid series. Written by Reid McCarter and Edward Smith — known for their game criticism at Bullet Points Monthly — the text
The Legend of Zelda Not even Mario and Zelda could make the Barcode Battler any goodeurogamer.net - Jennifer Allen Years ago, when I worked in retail in a long gone Blockbuster store, Easter was an awkward time of year. Not because seemingly everyone on the face …
How 'climate crisis games' could better model our problems and our futurerockpapershotgun.com - Robert Yang In Vectorpark’s Sandcastles, you build fantastic towers and watch the waves erase your work every 10 seconds. It’s a very direct metaphor for the …
'Mordhau' and the Fantasy of an All-White Middle Ages - VICEVICE - Dante DouglasThe past few years have been host to a number of discussions regarding supposed “historical accuracy” in games that portray Europe as a wholly white and nearly-entirely-male landscape. The fact that Mordhau,
FlipboardIcon version of the Flipboard logo Labor and Capitalunwinnable.com - Justin Reeve There’s something strange about the dockworkers in Dishonored 2. It’s not the way they talk, though – it’s the way they walk.
Prey (2017) as a Teacher and Tester of Player Empathydualshockers.com - Steven Santana Prey is framed as a test of empathy not only for the player character but for the player themselves. Technology and fiction as a teacher of empathy …
FlipboardIcon version of the Flipboard logo Introducing ROMchip | ROMchipromchip.org We first became motivated to create ROMchip: A Journal of Game Histories in 2015, at the Society for the History of Technology’s annual conference in …
FlipboardIcon version of the Flipboard logo Freedom is the Lanceunwinnable.com - Levi Rubeck I dream of the actual sense of commanding space and time through piloting a vehicle
Rejoice! The Switch Lite has a proper D-padPolygon - Russ FrushtickThe long-rumored, portable-only Nintendo Switch Lite was revealed on Wednesday morning, with all of the features we were expecting. It’s smaller, it’s lighter, and it ditches detachable Joy-Con controllers.
Tragic Sims 4 bug makes child protective services take away your kidsPolygon - Patricia HernandezThe Sims 4 tries to replicate reality, which in some cases means including a number of somber mechanics. Neglect your kids, for example, and the game will actually send a non-player character to take virtual
