One of my favorite talks at the Indie Games Summit – at least through Tuesday – was Jason Rohrer laying down the line. ...

Petri Purho’s Nordic Game Jam 2009 experiment Four Minutes and 33 Seconds of Uniqueness has elicited some interesting and rather strong reactions among ...

Videogames can explore a wide range of emotions. Fear and aggression are the usual experiences, but moments of regret, concern and even sadness ...

The Big Issue of this years’ US presidential election: the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge – to drill, or not to drill? Everyone who ...

Go is often cited as a touchstone for profoundly deep gameplay that emerges from a shockingly simple set of basic game mechanics. You ...

The epiphany hit me a few months ago when my girlfriend and I visited her cousins’ Long Island home. Their 14-year-old son and ...

Whatever you do, don’t click. That’s the mistake most players make upon first loading up The Marriage, the first widely released artgame by ...

The journalist would be watching me work and live for a week, and he wanted to see my game design process from start ...

Like most people, I think my hobbies are pretty awesome. I also think it’s pretty awesome when authority figures agree with me, which ...

“Anything can be art. Even a can of Campbell’s soup.” So admitted Roger Ebert, world-famous movie reviewer and notorious videogame detractor, back in ...

“If you had an immortality pill right there in front of you, would you take it?” My spouse paused before answering. She had ...