Games for Change, the non-profit devoted to promoting, well, games for change, will hold their fifth annual festival in New York City from June 2-4. Keynote speakers are Henry Jenkins and Jim Gee and the closing keynote is the Honorable Justice Sandra Day O’Connor.
The first day of the festival will be a free, one-day workshop. [...]
GTA IV, supposedly the biggest thing in the history of modern electronic entertainment, has been leaked on the Internet. If you’re one of the lucky ones with a modded 360 and a copy of the game, disconnect from Live before you play it. Rockstar is watching out for people who go online with these before [...]
Wired reports that the US Defense Intelligence Agency has just acquired three PC-based video games which they will use to train the next wave of analysts. The games are short, but they have branching story lines that change depending on how a trainee reacts to various problems.
From the Article: “‘It is clear that our new [...]
Using an interesting blend of real-world video and cartoon-enemy overlays, ToonCrisis is a fun Flash shooter with an original soundtrack of punk-ish/ska songs to keep you motivated.
The objective is simply to kill the monsters by aiming your laser-shooting hand (which is, of course, in the shape of a gun) at them and clicking the left [...]
Here’s a video game that sounds like hours of bittersweet fun…
From the Website: “The Graveyard is a very short computer game designed by Auriea Harvey and Michael Samyn. You play an old lady who visits a graveyard. You walk around, sit on a bench and listen to a song. It’s more like an explorable painting [...]
LiveJournaller Capt. Sideburns has posted the results of his experiments in making a Space Invaders pixel-art cutting board — it worked superbly, as you can see. He’s promising Zelda next.
If you enjoyed the arcade classic Missile Command, you will be happy to know that today’s time waster is right up your alley. M.A.D., short for Mutually Assured Destruction, takes the classic Missile Command concept and builds on it with a variety of different upgrades, abilities, and enemy projectiles.
The goal of the game is to [...]
British Olympic athletes are being forced to sign contracts forbidding them from speaking out against the Chinese government, on threat of being banned from participating in the Beijing games. Other countries, including Canada and the US, have not made their athletes sign onto such an agreement, and have averred that their athletes can speak their [...]
Sanrio has announced today that its Hello Kitty Online massively multi-player online role-playing game (MMORPG) is accepting players for a closed beta. Players can explore Flower Kingdom, Tokyo, Paris, Moscow, and other locales populated by non-player Sanrio characters such as Hello Kitty herself, Badtz-Maru, My Melody, Kerropi, Pochacco, Purin, Muffin, and Scone. Typhoon Games has [...]
Ok, so maybe they don’t take the best screenshots in the world, but the Drunken Coders have pulled off some impressive feats of hackery with the Nintendo DS. A few days shy of a year ago they released a version of Quake that could be played on the handheld system, and over the past weekend [...]
You may remember 1986 as the year of Greg LeMond’s first Tour de France victory. Or maybe you were more consumed with following the early stages of the Iran-Contra Affair. Perhaps you were preoccupied with being born. If the latter was the case, you might not care about this post as much as those who [...]
The Kotaku videogame blog reports that videogame publisher CAPCOM has confirmed that the February 5 collector’s edition of the Devil May Cry 4 game will still include a Devil May Cry anime DVD. CAPCOM gave this assurance in the wake of ADV Films’ reported short-term issues with the distribution of various anime titles, including Devil [...]
Pole Position: Remix was seen floating around the iTunes Store in a couple of banners last week after the Jobs keynote, but wasn’t put up for download until yesterday. This is a first for iPod games: it’s a 3-D racing game. This looks like a really cool game that could keep you company on your [...]
An enterprising classic game fan recreated the first level of Super Mario Bros. using the 3D Doom engine. It looks like a surprising amount of fun.
Dr. John Zoidberg is my girlfriend’s TV boyfriend. I know, accept, and understand this. Why she is still with me, is another matter. No worries, I say. So imagine my surprise when TV Squad’s Richard Keller posted about how Futurama’s Zoidberg got his name. Sure, there’s a bunch of super groovy background stuff , but [...]
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