VICEGaming 'The Art & Making of Control' Is a Gaming Coffee Table Book You Actually Want verified_publisherVICE - Rob ZacnyA fascinating and gorgeous tour of a singular shooter. Among people who like Control, I feel like there aren't many whose relationship with the game lands somewhere between "it's fine, I like it" and is...
VICEAutos 'Art of Rally' Shows That Racing Games Need to Get Weirder verified_publisherVICE - Rob ZacnyWhen it comes to the past, sincerity might be a better target than realism. Last year, I watched John Frankenheimer's 1967 racing epic Grand Prix. It's a remarkable movie that both romanticizes and documents...
VICEMicrosoft Microsoft Fixes Xbox Live Glitch Preventing Users From Having "Bi" Gamertags verified_publisherVICE - Patrick KlepekWhen VICE Games alerted Microsoft of the issue, they worked on implementing a fix. Microsoft announced in 2010 it would allow people to have online usernames (called "gamertags" on Xbox) using terms like...
VICEVideo Games 'Project Triangle Strategy' Needs to Lean Less 'Game of Thrones' more 'Crusader Kings' verified_publisherVICE - Ricardo Contreras'Project Triangle Strategy' may only be a demo at the moment, but it makes a strong first impression. There are a lot of choices you have to make when creating a game in a different time. One of the traps...
VICEGaming How Survival Themes Save the Management Games from Themselves verified_publisherVICE - Nicole ClarkPerfectionism ruins strategy games; desperation elevates them. In the past year, I’ve started finding stressful survival games oddly meditative. Maybe it’s because I ran through all of my “chill” games,...