For our introductory tutorial, we will use Stencyl to replicate the 1976 arcade game Blockade. Blockade is an early precursor to Snake and ...
On the spectrum of play between contemplation and corruption. While watching the E3 2014 coverage on Twitch this week, I restrained myself to a brief, six-tweet ...
Via Twitter, friend of the site Cameron Kunzelman recently introduced me to Eric Bailey, proprietor of Nintendo Legend, a site dedicated to ...
The Obstruction In a recent episode of the Giant Bomb podcast, co-host Drew Scanlon brought up a rather bizarre play that happened in Game 3 ...
What happens when we stop thinking about videogames as cinema and instead think of them through other media, like fashion, dance, or architecture? Note: This paper ...
Voiding your Sears warranty from 1977. As a follow-up to yesterday's post about my newly-acquired Tele-Games console, I thought I'd make ...
In my day, the console *was* the controller. As part of my 'Videogames and Procedural Media' course at VCU, I've been fortunate enough to have been ...
Despite its weird sci-fi veneer, Atari 2600 shooter Yars' Revenge is one of the greatest sports videogames ever made. Sorry Pitfall, Adventure, and Defender. No offense, ...
Deleuze in the Diving Bell I read B.K. Evenson's Dead Space: Martyr novel per the recommendations of some reading group friends. For those who know me, ...
You know the drill: if you've landed here first, you'll likely want to read Part I (at ...