Confession: I was faking comprehension of Chasing Aurora when I saw it at the Penny Arcade Expo. I don't blame Clements Scot, the developer who talked me through the video demonstration you can see here. » 9/06/11 10:40am 9/06/11 10:40am

This is Quantum Conundrum, the first-person puzzle game coming out early next year from a development team led by Kim Swift. She's someone who has earned my gaming trust, since she was a senior member of the team that made Narbacular Drop and the more famous game it was turned into, Portal » 9/02/11 3:00pm 9/02/11 3:00pm

I heard at E3 that the new downloadable War of the Worlds game might remind people of the lovely, spooky black-and-white sidescroller Limbo. But when I saw the downloadable game at the Xbox 360 booth at the Penny Arcade Expo, I and two other passersby all made a different comparison: Out of this World. » 9/02/11 2:00pm 9/02/11 2:00pm

They grew corn and tobacco in colonial Jamestown on Mars back in the 1600s. Sir Walter Raleigh took up arms, via a spaceship, to fight the Spanish-Martian alliance. » 9/01/11 6:00pm 9/01/11 6:00pm

Before I saw The Splatters this month at the Penny Arcade Expo in Seattle, our own Brian Crecente saw the game, then called Confetti Carnival, at the DICE convention in Las Vegas back in February. » 9/01/11 5:00pm 9/01/11 5:00pm

With so few great heist video games out there, the wait for Monaco has seemed especially long. » 9/01/11 4:00pm 9/01/11 4:00pm

Retro City Rampage, the top-down Grand Theft Auto-looking game that pays homage to old-school video games when it's not having some fun at their expense, is nearly done. At last. » 9/01/11 3:00pm 9/01/11 3:00pm

In game designer Eitan Glinert's mind peanut butter must be tower defense and jelly must be Tetris, because for the second game in a row, the young creator has smushed the two great gaming styles together. He's just done it radically different this time, as if switching from making PB&J sandwiches to—I don't… » 8/31/11 6:00pm 8/31/11 6:00pm

Back when I thought my time at the Penny Arcade Expo was going to be shortened due to a hurricane, I rushed to the area of the show where Hello Games was showing Joe Danger: The Movie. » 8/31/11 4:00pm 8/31/11 4:00pm

Matt Gilgenbach is the kind of forward thinker who makes a video game to propose to his girlfriend, fakes his way onto an MTV reality show (or so he told me), and creates a video game like Retro/Grade that is played entirely in reverse. » 8/31/11 3:40pm 8/31/11 3:40pm

Armillo was one of the games I stopped to see at the Penny Arcade Expo just to be polite. I'd never heard of the studio behind the game, Fuzzy Wuzzy Games. I wasn't in the mood for a cute, colorful platformer. » 8/31/11 2:00pm 8/31/11 2:00pm

Sub-Zero, Scorpion, Smoke, and Reptile were made for loving you, baby, and you were made for loving them. » 8/30/11 5:00pm 8/30/11 5:00pm

The sequel to the popular Xbox Live Arcade game Trials HD isn't just about controlling motorbikes through difficult, side-scrolling stunt courses. That was the last game (and the one before that). » 8/30/11 3:20pm 8/30/11 3:20pm

Over the last couple of years, the indie game Closure has generated some buzz for its simple, smart design. This is a game about light and darkness. In the game's black and white world, what is illuminated has substance, what is in darkness is intangible. You can move the source of light, carrying it away from a wall… » 8/30/11 2:00pm 8/30/11 2:00pm

PAX Prime was a great place to catch some cosplay, and if you looked closely enough, find some sassy new friends to help keep you from blowing up the entire convention center in a fit of anger. » 8/30/11 1:40pm 8/30/11 1:40pm