Turns out, the addictive nature has to do with the human brain’s basic pleasure for tidying up. Tetris holds our attention by continually creating unfinished tasks. Each action in the game allows us to solve part of the puzzle, filling up a row or rows completely so that they disappear, but is also just as [...]
Ostensibly, this Wired profile is about legendary videogame creator Peter Molyneux, who recently left Microsoft to start his own company 22Cans. But, it is also so much more. Molyneux is known for dreaming up big, heady concept games, over-promising while under-delivering, and marching to his own drum beat. He doesn’t play it safe when it [...]
During this weekend’s Ohio State-Nebraska football game, the OSU marching band dropped a stellar tribute to classic video games at half-time. They pretty owned the entire world with the Tetris tribute into a seamless Super Mario Bros. tribute beginning around the 1:25 mark. You think you won’t want to watch the entire nine minutes, but [...]
PBS Off Book continues to roll on with another great segment. The video game industry is now bigger than Hollywood, with hundreds of millions of dollars spent developing these interactive experiences. But there are also small-scale developers working in the indie game realm, creating unique and experimental video games without the budgets of the larger [...]
One way to read this Bloomberg story is at face value: that cable companies are making console video games irrelevant because they are “gearing up” to offer video games directly to customers. The other way to read the article is to laugh and suggest that Bloomberg got duped by the three major cable providers in [...]
Mario finally snaps, as you’ll see below, due to the first-level turning into a mobius strip made from a 3D printer. Any one would snap too if we were running around and around breaking bricks with no release and no end. Here’s his mental breakdown.
Microsoft teamed up with video game maker Atari to port its slew of classic games to the HTML5/touchscreen generation. The first eight games to see the light of day include: Pong, Asteroids, Centipede, Combat, Lunar Lander, Missile Command, Super Breakout and Yars’ Revenge. Both company’s said hundreds more will be added over time. The games are optimized [...]
It’s been a long while since I’ve played Risk, but back in college it was part of my regular pre-bar routine. Anyway, Fay Helfer created this impressive handmade Game of Thrones version of the board game and I’m pretty sure I’ve never wanted anything more than I want this right now. Game of Thrones lends [...]
For six bucks you get three covers — specify the games and the console — that look like old school Penguin paperbacks courtesy of ETSY seller JamesBit. Of course, the covers will be emailed to you in a PDF and you have to print them out yourself, but that’s a small price to pay to [...]
38 Studios, a video game company founded by former Major League Baseball pitcher Curt Schilling, catastrophically went bankrupt this year. In March, they had a high-profile launch for its first game, “Kingdoms of Amular”, and by May they had no money. It was a spectacular rise and a grisly fall captured expertly by Boston Magazine’s [...]
