You don't realize just how good a gaming year it's been until you look back at all of the games you actually played. From physics puzzlers to ninja simulators, 2012's library was full of interesting, creative, unique experiences.
The first mobile game from the makers of Quantum Conundrum, PIXLD is now available on iTunes. Yum.
Quantum Conundrum's Kim Swift (because I am tired of typing Portal creator) and her team at Airtight Games have undergone a startling epiphany—mobile phones can play games. They've launched Airtight Mobile to take advantage of this discovery, with the first of these "mobile phone games" dropping next week. It's called …
Delightful puzzler Quantum Conundrum
Square Enix and art group iam8bit have gone and done a thing. They've paid for a TV show based on first-person puzzler Quantum Conundrum
Quantum Conundrum, released yesterday for the PC, now has a specific date for the Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3. PlayStation Network gets the puzzler on July 10, Xbox Live subscribers may buy it on July 11.
Let's just get this out of the way: Yes, Quantum Conundrum is a first-person puzzler, just like Portal. Yes, it was designed by Kim Swift, the project lead on Portal. And yes, it shares some of Portal's core traits: there's a physics-altering arm device, a goofy omniscient narrator, and an alarming number of buttons…
From reading Valve's employee handbook
Everything's in first-person. Your silent hero is equipped with a high-tech gadget that can manipulate chunks of the environment. You progress through a series of rooms, each stuffed to the brim with quirky crate-and-button-based puzzles that need solving. And an omniscient voice is talking to you the whole time.
If anyone is qualified to create an Interdimensional Shift Glove it's the man that flexed his interdimensional muscles s dozen times over the course of three different television series. John "Q" de Lancie steps into the disembodied voice of Professor Fitz Quadwrangle in Airtight Games' Quantum Conundrum.
While we got our first look at Airtight Games' dimension-hopping Quantum Conundrum yesterday via Gamespot
While Valve busies itself thinking with portals, Portal designer Kim Swift let her mind wander to newer, fluffier dimensions. Quantum Conundrum is the result of those wanderings, and it looks amazing.
