Articles tagged "games"

The latest in the Bioshock series is a different beast from its predecessors. It's sort of like seeing George W. Bush at a Neil Young concert. Let me explain.

Most people assume that writing a video game is a simple affair of level-by-level description—but most people are wrong.

Just don't go thinking that playing FIFA all day will boost your MCAT score.

If Hasbro really wanted to modernize Monopoly, it'd allow its pretend industrialists to soar around the board on the backs of a 'bot.

Four noteworthy tales of total gaming destruction done with such gravitas and finesse they make Nostradamus look like Miss Cleo.

What gaming's big bang in the early 1960s may tell us about the Disney-esque empire of a modern mobile-gaming sensation.

One’s politics and personal penchant toward mass virtual-word slaughter notwithstanding, this new study is among the first to test the longer-term, cumulative effects of video game playing in any way, and the first, its authors claim, to specifically…

Partying and playing with an indie gaming supergroup and their innovative, fundamentalist game suite, all under a Kickstarter countdown.

What the recently released Wii U could mean for the beleaguered gaming giant.

700 lines of code. No graphics.

The absurd simplicity of the whole idea — Fuck shovels and dynamite, let’s use nukes — hearkens back to the techno-optimism of the 50s.

Just a few years after Pong changed the world of home entertainment, porn earned its place in video gaming history.

I don't play games. Never have, really. During a blip of my youth you could've found me posted up in my parent's basement, getting down on brick-era Game Boy and SNES classics. True. But for me, as with too many other kids my age itching to kick off

Computers can already beat us at chess and Jeopardy, so this one seems a little behind the curve. If robots couldn’t beat us in a mindless game of rock, paper, scissors by now, I don’t think we’d have to worry much about that whole singularity thing…

Let's get this out of the way first: there's a difference between rap, which is what rappers do, and hip-hop, which comprises the whole culture of rappers, DJs, b-boys, and graffiti artists. I bring this up because, while styles and trends are contin…

Whether they require controllers, rocks or even our own bodies to be played, games have been around forever. They were, for a long time, the stuff of diversion; something to do "when the hunt is over and the wolves have been chased away and the dishe…

Tucked between a bodega and a bar in a former industrial neighborhood on the border of Brooklyn and Queens, an unassuming door leads to New York’s newest, most radical punk scene.

Next week, the feverishly anticipated _Civilization 5_ "comes out":http://www.civilization5.com/. If you've spent any time with your head buried in any of the other _Civ_ games, you know well enough that this is a must-have, like a divorce-worthy tim…