In the same way that firstperson shooters thrive in a military setting, alternate reality games (ARGs) are an apt home for conspiracy theories and long-lost secrets. So it’s no surprise that Smoking Gun Interactive has rolled out its mysterious new ...
So I’ll confess: watching Planet Earth turns me into a nervous wreck. I know a lot of people like to get buzzed and watch the ducks cruise the mountains in high-def, but when I watch the show, all I see is the killing. The fox with the gosling in its ...
John Teti thought I was nuts. He didn’t say it, but I could tell: here I was, a game journo who lived just an hour away from Funspot, and I’d never been there once. But to be fair, when I got there the first time, it didn’t look like much. Funspot is a ...
I've been playing the game. A lot. And I love it. A lot. The other night I spent hours with it, and in those hours, all I did was farm the same sections again and again, futz around with my gear, gain a few soul levels, and kill one Vanguard demon - ...
slagged my heart. I was ready for solos that shred, men that shriek, and monsters with teeth where they should have faces. I was ready to dig the jokes and hate the gameplay. But nobody told me that Brütal Legend’s a love story. (Oh and hey: spoilers ...
The next project from the creators of Magic: The Gathering won’t be paper-based. It’s instead being designed for the world of online, via Facebook and iPhone. Mind Twist is still very much just a codename to the public, but its developer, Mind Control ...
It took just one drawing to turn my child into a raving Sonic The Hedgehog fan. We were at Jetpack Comics, and he saw the cover of Sonic X #37, and somehow the character just hooked him: the spiky hair, the bright blue body and the eyes that screamed, “ ...
The new Modern Warfare 2 trailer promises to take the fight not just to modern times, but to the streets of the American capital, where war breaks out in sight of the White House. But here’s what’s funny about that: this summer, small clutches of angry ...
Ask anyone who doesn’t read comic books what other people like about comic books, and you’ll often hear: “They’re a power fantasy.” Take a cliché: the class runt comes home from a day of getting beaten by the bullies, reads a superhero comic, and ...
Rune Grammofon's labelhead, Rune Kristoffersen, has business on his mind: It's right in the title of this comp, a follow-up to the first 2xCD + book collection of the same name. Volume 1 marked his label's fifth anniversary, and this one lands just ...
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