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It’s nearly summer time, which means heading to foreign soil to sit half naked on a crowded bit of land where dirt meets water, to spend your evenings looking like Dr. Zoidberg while drinking copious amounts of cheap local booze and copping off with strangers.
Or alternatively if you’re feeling the pinch, pretend you did all that instead—send one of these pretend postcards and act like you spent 2 weeks in Vegas surrounded by hot babes.
What would be your dream job? How about designing video games that are exploring new creative possibilities and pushing the medium to its limits? We’re seeing new generations of game designers ripping up the rule book and using their energies and imaginations to stretch the platform’s capabilities.
Gamers who honed their craft as hobbyists and invest their creations with great passion, wit and wonder. And who doesn’t want to play games like that?
It was a time when eggs were stolen by the greed of pigs who had to be stopped. And there was only one man who could accomplish such a hard and complicated task. One man and his birds. Angry birds.
From the phenomenal iPhone app that helped millions kill time while waiting for their friends to show up for a beer, comes the film of the decade, directed by Michael “LOUDER!!” Bay. Launching into a cinema near you never.
Those green pigs and those birds, are they so different after all? Maybe the whole egg stealing thing was just a massive misunderstanding and they were just borrowing them to keep them safe. I’m sure that was it.
Yeah, they’re all just trying to live in a precariously constructed world that’s really as fragile as all our own. There’s a lesson to be learned here, humanity would do good to look at how these two disparate sides come together in their shared experiences. It’s…it’s beautiful, man.
Time to get all ‘Hotel California’ and repeat the mantra, “You can check in, but you can never leave”, which is true in your case because you are running the place. Keep the demanding guests happy at ALL costs!
It might sound like a pretty weird basis for a game but it is strangely addictive as your hotel fills up and your guests get evermore demanding (what do they need all those batteries for?) and angry – good luck! — Click HERE to play.
It was a time when a children’s cartoon about magic talking ponies became an epic opera across the infinity of space. My Little Pony has never sounded so badass.
But that’s what happens when you synch My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic (awww) with the StarCraft 2 cinematic launch trailer. You get the power of awesome.
You’ve got to love a fan made film; the geeky detail, the love of the source material to the point of obsession–and this is a good one.
Set in the Half-Life world, they’re managed to crow bar in all the props from the game, like, er, the crow bar and stuff.
While most of us spent the holidays farting turkey, skulling port, and watching the grandparents dribble, this bright young man spent it doing something that will serve him well for the rest of his life.
Well, for however long this video’s popular for anyway. And what great feat did he undertake? Why nothing less than playing the Tetris theme on The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time. Kudos to this young geek.
Forget playing Pokémon on the computer, that is so passe. It’s all about using real animals, so go out and find yourself a blue whale, no bitching about them being hard to find due to extinction, just find one!
Or failing that, maybe just use your pet dog instead. Then go out there and dog butt your enemy’s face. It will open up a whole new world. For the dog anyway.
If, like this young man, you’ve ever felt the burning desire to transform your mundane human form into the superheroic slendour of Ultra Seven (a Japanese superhero for those not in the know), then the Kinect is for you.
Don’t settle for some cheaply made costume with stomach pads from the local supermarket, instead use the virtual power of augmented reality and even execute his lazer-firing power. Hoooo!
Will you look at this, a video that combines two cool things — video games and street art. They’ve leapt on the zeitgeist, namely Banksy-style stencils and NES nostalgia, and swung it about their heads until it’s flown off into space.
But *serious face* there is something to be learned here. And that is, never stamp on a stranger’s painting or you will be crushed under fist of a giant animated pixel-stencil. Be warned.
Nowt more impressive than shit getting blown up, is there? If your answer was “nope” then you were so wrong. Because there is something more impressive than shit getting blown up. And that’s shit getting blown up in slow-mo.
Not literally shit, that would be pretty gross, but things like an Xbox exploding into fragments to symbolise the death of console gaming or some such semantic craziness. Anyway, kudos to the photographer Dan Saelinger, it’s short but so very, very sweet.
I love stuff like this, it’s another of those meaningful emotional indie games that have minimal gaming elements but the propensity to make you cry like a baby (if you’re so inclined).
Anyway, this one has you saving a bunch of apple picking Mexicans from Nazis! The music will lull you into a feeling that it is essential that you play this for the rest of your life!
Get ready to go back to a time before even old skool was around! Finally, a video game that encapsulates the sheer joy that can be had with those ball bearing maze toys that even your grandad thinks are retro.
Now if someone could only make a digital version of the hoop & stick game…
