It's very weird to watch a single person for an extended period of time, especially when they don’t know you’re doing so. I’m right in front of the stage at a giant rock show, and I’m watching the front row. They jump when the pyro goes off. They take selfies, hugging their friends close and standing cheek to cheek to…
The Evolution Championship Series, better known simply as Evo, takes place in Las Vegas, Nevada this weekend, bringing together some of the best fighting game players from around the globe. This year's competition will host thousands of fighting game enthusiasts — more than 2,000 battling it out in Ultra Street Fighter 4 alone — competing in the nine games officially featured…
Video game narratives will continue to evolve based off of technology that mimics the style of film directors, according to Quantic Dream studio head David Cage during his BAFTA Games keynote in London. In a lecture focusing on the artistic possibilities of games development, Cage looked to the potential future of gaming narratives, suggesting that narrative design will eventually take…
BB-8 has enamored Star Wars fans since we first saw the little droid in trailers and teasers, and once it was revealed that the droid was actually a practical effect, meaning it wasn't created in a computer, the fans had a good time trying to figure out how it worked. The $150 version of the toy has since been released…
Star Wars Battlefront, the upcoming game from Battlefield developer DICE published by EA, will not allow players to aim using iron sights, reports GamesRadar, citing an as yet unpublished story in this Friday's issue of OXM. "There are no iron sights in Star Wars, on the ordinary blasters," executive producer Patrick Bach is said to... have said. "You have scopes…
The Android version of EA's Dungeon Keeper does its best to prevent users from providing negative feedback. It's typical for an app to ask the player to submit a review after it's been played for a few hours. A prompt appears, pointing to the app store, where the player can select 1 through 5 stars and leave a blurb of…
If the video game press conferences, conventions and expos of the past year are anything to go by, the forthcoming console generation will be the first where games made by independent teams have shared almost as much of the stage as the blockbusters made by some of the world's biggest studios. Both Microsoft and Sony have drummed up their support…
Kanane Jones wrote Final Girls as response to her own experience dealing with abuse recovery and the support she received from friends and therapy groups. Set in a support group meeting, Final Girls allows the player to guide and shape conversations between a small group of women who've experienced traumatic events. The browser game plays through simple dialog trees. Anyone…
P.T., the playable teaser for upcoming horror game Silent Hills, has inspired plenty of fan reactions since its free release on Aug. 12. There have been reaction videos, deep-dives into the Kojima-inspired rabbit hole that was the final puzzle in the game, and now, fans are editing screenshots to look as if they are actual photographs. Following a recent trend,…
Last week my daughter asked if she could play some games on her iPod. We control gaming time with an iron fist in my house, it happens after homework, after dinner, after the younger kids are asleep and in limited quantities. So they take the time spent gaming very seriously. I told her she could have an hour or so…
