What do you know about the Oregon Trail? I’m willing to be that your knowledge on the subject is gained almost entirely from the thusly-named game, where your typical quest across the country saw your resources dwindle, your family members drop one by one from accidents and disease, ending all too often with words ‘You…
With Kim Kardashian’s game raking in $75 million last year and on track to take in $200 million this year, it’s no news that games and celebrities can have a symbiotic relationship. What I think will be more surprising is just how far this connection between game players and celebrities can go, and how culturally…
The paradox of online worlds I’ve been playing a board game called Risk Legacy, the latest incarnation of the classic board game, and it features a surprising take on the role of permanence in games. Over multiple playthroughs the rules and board will actually permanently change based on what happens in each game. Winning the…
What are the stories of the every day world that most interest us? Turning on the TV we can see it on the news: car chases, pursuits, shootouts, crime and punishment, justice served or not. It strikes me how little events like these affect the lives of their onlookers, and how that contrasts to the…
We live in a world where a vast number of people walk around with what would previously have been considered supercomputers in their pocket. Each of these enormously powerful machines remains in high-bandwidth connection with every other connected machine in the world. Clearly we have arrived in the future. What are we doing…
It’s official, we’re launching Vessel on PS3 as a console exclusive March 11th! We’ve spent the last several months optimizing it down to the hardware and it’s smooth as butter now, the game is perfect for console and we’re really excited to get it out there. We’re also announcing the launch of our exclusive Vessel…
