A rape in Day Z: what drives gamers to go Lord of the Flies on each other?
In a game where players can act out any kind of sadistic fantasy on each other – from taking hostage…
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The Aliens horde: the inconsistent movie franchise with the consistently decent spin-off games
While there hasn't been a good Alien movie for almost 30 years, the games of the franchise have been steadily…
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All these years later, there’s still nothing better than Doom
Development is an evolutionary process, and newer games end up objectively better than the older ones they replace – yet…
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Warframe: or how I learned to stop worrying and love weird Canadian space ninjas
It's not the most original title, but Warframe's sneaky space ninjas make duck-and-cover shooting fun.
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The irrational end of Irrational Games
I come here today not to bury Ken Levine but to praise Irrational Games. When they were good they were…
ByGames developer creates Goat Simulator for a laugh, and it looks accidentally brilliant
Suggested tagline: “Be the goat you want to see in the world.”
ByFaltering Nintendo will be just fine if it moves into tablets
Nintendo's losing money, and won't puts its games on iOS or Android because it doesn't trust anyone else's hardware –…
ByDo videogames need their own version of the Bechdel test?
Virginia Woolf wrote that the most striking sentence she read in literature was "Chloe liked Olivia". In games, what would…
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