Gaming

Mario Kart 8

Wii U

PUBLISHED May 30, 2014

The Wii U has stalled out, however unfairly given its recent run of releases, and Nintendo is betting on its plumber/kart racer to provide...

Wolfenstein: The New Order

Multi-platform

PUBLISHED May 20, 2014

Marvel comics has periodically published a comic line called "What If..?" which allows artists and writers to play around with alternate pa...

Virtual Reality Bites Back

PUBLISHED May 6, 2014

I use my finger to sign an insanely long iPad release form, which I don't pretend to read, and step inside a wooden compartment. A woman pl...

Amazing Spider-Man 2

Multi-platform

PUBLISHED Apr 29, 2014

Documentarians recently dug up the Holy Grail of gaming — if by Holy Grail one means arguably the worst game ever, one so bad that it...

Is Fan-Funding Letting the Gaming Industry Off the Hook?

PUBLISHED Apr 2, 2014

Tim Schafer is a bespoke auteur in a by-committee industry, a Joss Whedon of gaming whose fervent fan base will follow wherever his quirky,...

inFAMOUS: Second Son

PS4

PUBLISHED Mar 21, 2014

Socio-politics has had an easier time infiltrating other forms of pop culture than gaming, from the terror era analogies of Battlestar Gala...

Titanfall

Xbox One / PC

PUBLISHED Mar 11, 2014

There has perhaps never been a more apropos name for a company than Respawn Entertainment. Yes, it's a hat-tip to the most emblematic gamep...

Can Downloads Help Gaming Find Creative Freedom?

PUBLISHED Feb 24, 2014

My name is Adéwalé and I'm in the outskirts of Port-au-Prince, machete drawn. Having helplessly encountered a slave auction soon after gett...