Chris Person

Try To Survive A Game Made Out Of Glitches

Ridiculous Glitching seeks to answer the age old question: what happens when you go beyond the kill screen in Pac-Man? What lies beyond in the infinite void of data? One hard-ass game, that’s what. Made as part of botFlappy Jam and Candy Jam, Ridiculous Glitching is difficult game, both to play and to look at.…

Here’s A Year’s Worth Of Dick Drawings (NSFW)

One year ago, a man’s wife challenged him to draw a penis on their whiteboard every day. The result? Pure magic. Enter one man’s spirit quest to draw penis-related art for over a year. His subjects are all over the place — From Van Gogh’s Starry Dick, to the Clash’s Londick Calling. There’s even a…

Guy Dressed As Sonic Messes With Cops

In America and Japan, Sonic is a fun-loving hedgehog that loves gold rings, going fast, scarves and occasionally kissing human women. In France? Sonic just wants to see the world burn. Watch French comedian, prankster and Mario Kart LARPer Rémi Gaillard dress up in a Sonic costume and proceed to screw with everything around him,…

When Mario Meets Seinfeld

What would happen if you mashed up Mario and Seinfeld? Well, something like this, probably. Aside from turning Super Mario Bros. into an existential sinkhole, the combination of Seinfeld and Mario brings up some questions, namely: 1. Who does Princess Peach think is spongeworthy? 2. Did Toad really kill Birdo with toxic glue attached to…

Guy Beats Super Mario Bros. With The Lowest Score Possible

It’s always amazing to see people take a game, turn it inside out and bend it to their whims. Mario is no different, particularly when it’s beaten with the lowest score possible. In a heart-stopping run—allegedly performed with no tool assistance—YouTube user NotEntirelySure clears Super Mario Bros. with the lowest score possible: 500 points. A…

​The New Strider Just Feels Right

It’s hard to reboot a franchise without shooting yourself in the foot. So many times the product feels bloated, weird, and abandons the thing that made it great to begin with. Strider, however, feels just right. In the video above, I give my impressions of Strider. Thankfully, it’s a game that understands what was intrinsically…

A Game That Lets You Swing Trash At Your Friends

Deathmatch comes in all shapes and sizes, but some of the most satisfying modes are the ones you don’t expect. Particle Mace knows this, and lets you swing lo-fi garbage at your friends. At Indiecade East, a yearly conference for indie game developers in New York, I interviewed designer Andy Wallace about his game Particle…

Just Be Glad Your Cat Isn’t Wolverine

Cats can be meddlesome on their own — they scratch things, destroy couches and get just about everywhere you don’t want them to. Now imagine if they had Adamantium claws. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3d4XMU… Count your lucky stars that X-Men Origins: Wolverine Cat isn’t the reality you live in. I mean, sure it’s a pain in the ass…

Watch The Birth Of The Universe While Controlling An Insane Dog

Universal History of Light is a lot of things. It’s a game about a seeing eye dog going insane and seeing the birth of the universe. It’s about loneliness and talking feces. At least, I think it is. Watch us play through the psychotomimetic, bonkers-as-hell Universal History of Light, the brainchild of indie dev Increpare.…

Man Robs Cop Car As Superman Does Nothing

Hollywood is a very specific weird, but there’s nothing quite as weird as watching a man brazenly mock heroes and villains while he robs a cop car. In footage, taken by a KTLA photographer on Hollywood Blvd, a man shouts “I Love Jesus,” then proceeds to smash the window of a police cruiser and saunter…

As Close To A New Game Boy Game As We’re Going To Get

I miss the days of dash attacks, the platformers of yesteryear. I miss Rocket Knight Adventure, and Mischief Makers. Lucky for me, The Joylancer: Legendary Motor Knight scratches that itch. In the video above, I play the “shareware” demo of The Joylancer, a retro-platformer that harkens back to the days of Gameboy and the 16-bit…

Threes Is The Addictive iPhone Game You Deserve

There are a lot of terrible, addictive mobile games. It can be a particularly unhealthy market from time to time. Which is why Threes is so fantastic. Sure, Threes (actual name: Threes!) is addictive, but it’s so fun to play from moment to moment that I’ve never minded that I’m hooked. Kirk Hamilton also calls…

Yep, That Looks Like A Feature-Length Minecraft Movie [UPDATE]

Fan films come and go, but making a feature-length Minecraft movie? That’s taking fandom to a whole new level. Enter Birth of Man, the Minecraft fan-film from Rocket Jump co-creator Brandon Laatsch. So far, only the trailer and a Kickstarter exist (the goal is $600,000), but I would not put it past the internet to…

How One Indie Game Studio Made 18 Games In 3 Years

The world of games can difficult and unforgiving — most creative endeavors are. But that doesn’t mean that there aren’t some ways to make the process a whole lot easier. In the video above from today’s D.I.C.E. Summit, Rami Ismail from Dutch indie studio Vlambeer (creators of Ridiculous Fishing and Nuclear Throne) talks about how…

I’m Hypnotized

3D animation can be used to make gorgeous,sometimes horrific, art. But then there are times when modeling enters into a realm that’s hypnotic and sublime. In the video above, titled Walking City, a lone automaton morphs through various forms without breaking it’s stride. It’s hard to say what’s so captivating about it, but it sure…

A Mech Game Straight Out Of The ’90s

Nostalgia is a weird beast — one that bubbles up and gets excited for the most random things. If this trailer is any indication, Matador is giving my inner PC gaming child a run for its money. Matador has a lot of things going for it: The isometric angle, the fact that it’s chock full…

Controllers? Pft. Watch This Guy Play Tekken With A Piano.

Sure, there are a lot of amazing fighting game players out there. But how many of them can kick ass and play the piano at the same time? In the lineage of Soul Calibur with a fishing controller and the Doom Piano comes the Tekken piano. Using a Arduino and several other parts, one young…

Here’s a “Mind Blown” GIF to add to your collection: The trailer for Neil deGrasse Tyson’s redux of Carl Sagan’s Cosmos dropped today. You can see it here. But the GIF above is really all you need, isn’t it? It is. Yes, it is.

​Burning Down A House Has Never Been This Hard

You would think setting a house on fire would be easy: all it takes is a box of matches and some time. But in the game Not Everything Is Flammable, it isn’t that easy. You control an errant, ever-expanding flame as it attempts to hop from object to object. Only the white objects are flammable,…

Rock, Paper, Scissors Like You’ve Never Seen It Before

How do you improve on a game like Rock Paper Scissors? Add a pinch of Ryan Gosling in Drive, that’s how. Restricted-RPS is described as “an online multiplayer swindle’emup.” It takes the very basic concept of the old-as-hell classic and adds gambling, collusion and misinformation. Watch the trailer above to see it in action. You…