Apple has announced that iOS6, the latest operating system for their iPad and iPhone, will be available on September 19.
No no wait, it’s a good kind of brain-tearing! Welome to Nuclien, a new iPhone/iPad game from James Barnard. It will test you. It will push you. It may break you. And if you’re like me, you’ll get really, really into it. Nuclien has a distinctive, stark visual style that reminds me of nothing so…
LittleBigPlanet Vita doesn’t come out for another couple of weeks, but Sony has decided that they don’t mind if we go ahead and talk about it now. How nice of them! I’m taking my time playing it—LittleBigPlanet games have a lot of nooks and crannies, and I’d like to explore every one before I do…
Over at Slate, a writer has gone ahead and eaten every kind of Pepperidge Farm cookie. He begins his article thusly: People think I’m weird because I like Chessmen. But they’re my favorite cookies, and I defend them with vigor whenever I encounter a Milano-lover who wants to fight me about it. And with that,…
It’s been almost exactly a year since Davey Wreden’s brilliant Half-Life 2 mod The Stanley Parable threw us all for a loop. In that time, Wreden has been working on a number of projects that take the story of Stanley, his job, and that helpful (but maybe kinda sinister) narrator to new and exciting places.…
There’s just something special about games that make you sneak. The push, the pull, the contemplative pause… and the rush of action. We’ve been spending the last week playing one of the most enjoyable stealth games in recent memory, and so we thought we’d take a closer look at the genre. What makes sneaking so…
I’ve seen The Matrix. You’ve seen The Matrix. And so we’ve both had the same thought: “Woah. Maybe we really are living inside a computer!” (Since The Matrix is copyrighted and everything, this is more commonly referred to as “The Simulation Argument,” as put forth by Oxford professor Nick Bostrom. (Thanks, Seth)) At least one…
May they never, ever stop making mods for Grand Theft Auto IV. I’m serious! Never stop. This latest one lets players assume the role of a giant elephant, stealing cars and riding motorcycles around Liberty City. Good thing there are no mice in GTA IV. Though there are peanuts…. We can only hope that the…
If you’re worried that Resident Evil 6 won’t feature enough content for you, fret not: Capcom has announced that they will be releasing three additional multiplayer modes for the game. All three modes will be timed exclusives for the Xbox 360 The fact that the three modes share names with three TV shows/movies is likely…
Yes, the whole “Shit [people] Say” thing died a long time ago. And yet it’s been reborn again, if only for an instant, so that we can celebrate the upcoming (likely) announcement of the next iPhone. Hey man, I have been using a Droid for the past couple of years after an ill-advised early switch…
It’s been two months since the internet first laid eyes on Parsec Productions’ splendidly scary free horror game Slender. In that time, we’ve seen all manner of Slender-related internet fallout. There are tons of videos of people playing the game (and freaking out), and there’s even another version of it in the works using Valve’s…
Do you like commenting? Do you like it enough… to pay for the privilege? Let’s find out! [Insert Kinja complaint here.] At long last, Brandon Boyer’s Venus Patrol has launched. The website is intended to be a new portal into the world of indie games. It’s headed up by Boyer himself, chair of the Independent…
Ever since we learned that there’s a multiplayer, source-engine take on the Slenderman game in the works, I’ve been hoping see more of the game in action. This video, which was shared on the Slender: Source Steam Greenlight page, gives a first look at the Slenderman in the game, as well as a hint of…
“I went over to my neighbor’s farm and watered her pumpkins.” This is the kind of thing one says regularly while playing FarmVille 2 I’ve spent most of the last week deep in Zynga’s latest foray into agriculture-based Facebook gaming. I’ve been really playing the thing, letting it get its hooks into me—for science! Believe…
Remember when music videos were just sort of five minutes of a band standing in a warehouse lip-synching to their own song intercut with footage of a hot girl making out with the lead singer? Good times. This “video” is really more of a short film. I’m not complaining because I guess it’s pretty cool—it’s…
Earlier this week when he was talking about Skyrim‘s new house-building downloadable content Hearthfire, Jason brought up Richard Bartle’s “Four types of video game players.” The Explorer, the Socializer, the Killer, and the Achiever. The names are rather self-explanatory: the Explorer loves to wander; the Socializer loves to chat; the Killer loves to compete; and…
Plenty of great games combine multiple game ideas into a single cohesive package. Persona mixed a dating sim and a party-based JRPG. Deus Ex combined sneaking, shooting and role-playing stats so successfully that it’s still mimicked to this day. You might think that a strategy RPG, a deck-building card game and a dice-rolling tabletop RPG…
Remember Terriers? Man, that show was great. (Too bad about the terrible name.) In the annals of dead-before-their-time TV shows, Terriers is right up there with Firefly, for my money. And hey, as it turns out, both of those shows had amazing flashback episodes written by Mr. Tim Minear! Yeah, the guy who wrote “Out…
Hey, maybe you’re playing some more Skyrim lately. Maybe you’ve even downloaded the latest DLC, Hearthfire? Seems like a good enough excuse to share this amazing image by Dead End Thrills. It’s part of his “Parting Shots” series, which he’s put up to bid Skyrim farewell. Jason’s been playing Hearthfire, so check out his list…
In just a few short weeks, Torchlight II will finally come out. I’m looking forward to digging in to Runic’s dungeon-crawler for a number of reasons, and of course, the question of “What can they get right that Diablo III got wrong?” is at the top of my mind. But one of the very coolest…
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