While the cosplay memories of the 2011 Penny Arcade Expo may fade, the glimpses of great games to come will keep gamers warm for many nights. Coming right at the cusp of the end-of-year holiday rush, PAX Prime seems to be serving as a last peek into the crazy months of September and December, as [...]
Three years ago, Braid came out and changed people’s perceptions of what video games–especially independently developed ones–could be. The time-manipulating platformer gave players an experience that channeled the ephemeral nature of selective memory and the sting of lost love. Braid became a bona fide hit on the Xbox 360, thanks to a substantive maturity that [...]
Child of Eden is currently my favorite Kinect game. Tetsuya Mizuguchi’s latest masterpiece makes me feel artsy and connected and like I’m floating in the future. All good things, to be sure.
Minecraft‘s been one of the biggest success stories ever in the video game medium. The sprawling browser-based game’s mostly the work of one man, indie developer Markus ‘Notch’ Persson, with more than 6 million people registered. It’s become wildly popular over the last year, so much so that Paypal froze Persson’s account on suspicions that [...]
When games like Call of Duty: Black Ops and devices like Kinect notch record-setting numbers, it’s easy to lose sight of the fact that success comes in many forms in the video game medium. Over at TIME.com, Jacob Templin takes a look at how smaller, artsier games engage players in an art gallery setting but [...]
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