The 4th Wall lives up to its name, since the main character is talking directly to you within a minute. The game doesn’t offer much choice, but the whole thing is only 5 minutes long, and it offers a few chuckles along the way. Check out this video by YouTuber ThingsWePlay, and you can play…
Please Be Nice is a crazy idea that some Dutch students came up with last week. The idea: make a game that gets changed by the players. Only a week in, they’ve already made over 60 versions, and we’ve got a video of the results. They’re currently working on version 73, although the first 45…
At this moment, there are 385,000 people playing Dota 2, and millions more play it every day. Valve’s new documentary about the first major Dota 2 competition is a great peek at some of the players behind one of the world’s biggest games. The basic idea behind the film basically boils down to “Dota 2…
“Sonic Ether’s Unbelievable Shaders” is probably the most aptly-named mod I’ve ever seen. Top image from Sonicether There are plenty of mods for Minecraft that change the look of the game, like texture packs that add more detail to the blocks. However, easily the biggest change comes from the shader mod, and Sonic Ether’s shader…
Luftrausers makes you feel like you’re constantly in the danger zone. Yes, that’s a video review up there, and you should watch it. Because seeing the game in action will give you a much better idea of how the game feels than I could ever do with written words. That’s important because this game is…
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Ever wonder what it would look like to fly faster than a speeding bullet? Well, the folks at CorridorDigital got their hands on a UAV with a camera and decided to use it to envision what it might look like if Superman spent a day wearing a camera on his head. The idea of seeing…
Sometimes people question if GTA has broken physics that allow some of the crazy stunts we see, but this stunt has actually been done in real life. If you aren’t familiar, the “Wall of Death” is a real circus stunt done with actual cars and motorcycles. There’s no custom-built pit in Los Santos, so you…
Working an office job can make one feel like a zombie. Corporate Lifestyle Simulator takes the metaphor and runs with it, making you an average cube dweller faced with an office full of zombie coworkers. It’s an expansion to a game from last year called Zombies, that adds new levels, weapons, boss fights, music, and…
Orteil42, creator of Cookie Clicker, has a toy on his website that generates random game concepts like “A tycoon game where you stop breathing if you don’t hug chores.” Now, there’s a game jam to make those games real. Insanity Jam is set up around the idea of one-person teams making games based on the…
Aran Koning has participated in several game jams, and apparently he enjoys them so much that he came up with an idea that amounts to a new game jam every day, at the whim of the internet. The initial version of the game was just a red dot that you had to move to the…
Yep, that’s a game where you shoot Bowser with a Doom-style shotgun, in a Virtual Boy, the system that was so awkward it gave people migraines. When these guys say they’re only doing this because they love it, they aren’t exaggerating. These guys have been around for a while, but Animal recently interviewed the people…
Threes is out on Android today, and to celebrate, the developers have released an infographic with stats about the game. If you’ve played it, you probably won’t be surprised to find that people are playing a ton of Threes The chart of how far people have gotten is also a nice reassurance for every time…
You might be stuck on level 20 or 30 of Candy Crush Saga, but now you can take some small solace in the fact that science has proven that a computer would have just as hard a time beating the game. Because science isn’t in the business of taking your word for it, a computer…
It’s finally time! We’ve all learned about fractions thanks to Frog Fractions, but how will we teach our children about fractions 2? Luckily, this kickstarter is here, from the future, to help. First of all, if you haven’t played Frog Fractions, stop what you’re doing and go play it right now. It’s free. Right now.…
“The big bad boss is defeated, the coins are collected and the princess has been rescued.” Well, the only thing left for you is to undo everything that led up to that. Hopefully Spoiler Alert doesn’t end up just being a normal platformer that you play from right to left instead of left to right.…
Retro Game Crunch was a pretty crazy Kickstarter idea: Three developers would take votes on a theme every month and make a game based on the theme. Despite the rushed timeline, the results are quite fun. Rusty Moyher, Shaun Inman, and Matt Grimm teamed up for Ludum Dare to make a game in 72 hours.…
How much stuff goes into a video game? To celebrate Broken Age going on sale on Steam, Double Fine has released an infographic with a collection of stats from the number of textures in the game to the total coffee consumption of the team. via Double Fine
Heart&Slash is about a robot finding its place in a harsh world. With swords. And guns. And fists. And interchangeable heads. There’s also love to be found. The first thing you’ll notice about the game is that it’s got a really cool voxel art style mixed with cartoonish graphics. It’s not all about the art…
I eat a lot of cookies. Really, it’s kind of a financial burden. One that just got worse when I walked into the grocery store and saw four new varieties of ice cream-themed Chips Ahoy, which I immediately bought and ran home to try. Chips Ahoy! (the exclamation point is technically part of the name)…
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