High Scores And Egos: There's Always A Bigger Doodle 
The Last Moments Of GAME 
How Bad User Interfaces Are Ruining Video Games And Other Wonderful Things 
She Tried To Make Good Video Games For Girls, Whatever That Meant 
The Story Of Doodle Jump: Brotherly Love And Digital Snacks 
Sunday Comics: Dead Island Satire is a tricky thing — if your goal is to mock something by embracing it, how far can you go until the mockery takes a backseat to the embracing? That’s the current question facing Tentacle Bento, a card game focusing on Japanese tentacle rape fantasies which raised a lot of money on Kickstarter (and a lot of ire on the internet) earlier this week before Kickstarter cancelled its funding.
It’s Christmas. You’re friends and family are together for that special time of the year to give, receive and eat. Once all the presents have been passed around and the food consumed, someone recommends you pull out Monopoly or Scrabble to pass the time. You sigh, knowing there’s a whole other world of board and card games your relatives are oblivious to. Wouldn’t it be great if there was a way to gently introduce them to this fabulous alternate universe?
Japan is no stranger to niche publications, and it’s game magazines are not exception. There are mags for dating sims and arcade games, but even those aren’t that off the beaten path. “Soccer Game King”, however, is.
The first trailer for Petroglyph’s Mytheon gives us a bit more of an understanding as to what’s actually going on in the online action roleplaying strategy hybrid.
So you think you’re a pretty good Magic: The Gathering player, but are you good enough to take on the creator of the game in Magic: The Gathering – Duels of the Planeswalkers?
EA has announced that their card-based real time strategy game BattleForge is getting a new “competitive pricing strategy”, with the retail price dropping to $US29.99.
