Poor design choices lead to ludonarrative dissonance
Just when your mind has plunged itself completely into the fantasy of a game, something always manages to break the illusion. And while invisible...
THQ to drop licensed kids’ games and focus on “core” content
Video game publisher THQ today announced it is officially shifting its focus from traditional kids’ licensed games to “core” franchises such as Saints Row,...
Modern Warfare 3 DLC schedule revealed: 12 maps, 6 missions, 2 game modes
Activision has outlined its downloadable content (DLC) schedule for Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 during 2012. There are 20 pieces of DLC due...
Review: The futuristic OnLive Desktop runs Windows apps on the iPad
The current state of computing is always under scrutiny and speculation. For years laptop and desktop computers have been proclaimed dead, most recently in...
News Blips: No more Microsoft Points, Mojang considers itself non-indie, and next Xbox chip
I've never realized the density of my university's student population before actually walking around in it. Why, the class I'm in right now is...
Video Blips: Asura’s Wrath, Call of Duty Elite, and Mario and Sonic at the Olympics
Ever get those days where you're ambushed by a pack of living Buddha deity statues while trudging along a dusty road? Asura's Wrath feels...
Tiny Tower devs are happy to inspire Zynga’s new game, Dream Heights (image)
Zynga is synonomous with ripping off other developers’ games, but very rarely do they get called out for it. In fact, Zynga has even...
LEGO Minecraft sets to become a reality, as project gets green light
Seemingly a match made in heaven, a proposed collaboration between LEGO and hit indie game Minecraft has now been given the official green light. ...
Augmented reality takes pop-up books to the next level (interview)
Augmented reality, combining real world views and digital information, is not particularly new, but it is still considered in its infancy. The technology has...
The Four Horsemen joining forces in Darksiders 3?
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C0i9HzJazfQ] The above is the ending to 2010’s Darksiders, which featured War, one of the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse, as the main protagonist....