In: Gaming News
30 May 2010There really isn’t much we don’t already know about the Sith Warrior, right? He’s filled with pure evil and the second his master isn’t looking, he’ll probably plant a Lightsaber in his back. But the above video for Star Wars: The Old Republic‘s Sith Warrior — which was revealed to have two advanced classes, the [...]
In: Gaming News
28 May 2010Can playing videogames train you as a lucid dreamer? Psychologist Jayne Gackenbach thinks so, according to work she presented at this week’s Games for Health Conference in Boston. For several years, Gackenbach, a researcher at Grant MacEwan University, studied similarities in skills between gamers and individuals who have learned to control their dreams. She also [...]
In: Casual|Gaming News
27 May 2010East Carolina University’s Psychophysiology Lab recently published some promising findings from a study on the effect casual games can have on the cognitive abilities of older players. According to Gamasutra, the study, which has run for almost six months and counting, has measured certain mental functions of 40-some participants over the age of 50 as [...]
In: Culture|Gaming News
26 May 2010Do you like art? Do you like videogames? Do you like the art created in the production of videogames? Would you like to see George Wendt in a movie about beans? I can help you with the first three. This Saturday, the Gnomon Gallery will be opening a show of concept pieces from God of [...]
In: Apple|Gaming News
25 May 2010Wait, isn’t that … tomorrow? Why yes it is! Turns out that the third week of Mac releases on Steam will include Gordon Freeman’s second adventure against the Combine in Half-Life 2. Rather than simply release a press blurb about the game’s forthcoming availability, Valve has created this parody of Apple’s “1984″ advertisement featuring Alyx [...]
In: Culture|Gaming News
22 May 2010Simon Cottee (who we last saw creating something wonderful via Sleep is Death) has filmed a short documentary which delves into the world of pixels and pixel art. It features interviews with a number of indie developers, including SiD’s Jason Rohrer. The main argument is that while some developers try to give gamers a sense [...]
In: Apple|Gaming News|PC
12 May 2010To celebrate Steam’s arrival on Mac, Valve went ahead and did what Valve does best: create a sweet promotion that will raise awareness of its games and client, earning them big bucks in the long run. They have all sorts of fancy charts and graphs to prove this works, I’m sure. Starting now and lasting [...]
This month’s most exciting reveal: Media Molecule have officially debuted the first video of their sequel to the PS3′s fully customizable arts&craft-y game LittleBigPlanet. With a clever and appropriate turn of phrase, the Molecules say the sequel will bring the game from a “platformer” to a “platform for games”, and have backed that up with [...]
In: Culture|Gaming News
10 May 2010Ever wonder what a metroid would look like if it were a real thing? Yeah, me neither, because I’m pretty sure it would absolutely terrifying. Artist Jaime “Kalapusa” Margary has taken this to the next level, having just finished up a reference illustration for a “realistic” metroid specimen sculpture. It looks just like the metroids [...]