PC

Wait, People Play Competitive Minesweeper?

To you, Minesweeper may be a casual gaming relic, but to a small band of hardcore fans, it’s a competitive scene as hotly contested as any Call of Duty or StarCraft leaderboard.


November 19, 2010
In Real Life

Can Games ‘Hook’ You Like Movies Can?

In movies, there’s a simple rule: if you haven’t hooked the audience by the time the film’s 10 minutes in, you’ve lost them. But how can this work for video games?


June 30, 2010

LunchTimeWaster: First Person Sweeper

Kotaku AU

Minesweeper is super addictive. But it’s so abstract it hardly conveys the nerve-wracking tension you’d feel if you really were sweeping for mines. How could we change that?


June 1, 2010

LunchTimeWaster: It’s Minesweeper With Monsters

Kotaku AU

Sick of Minesweeper? Let’s get rid of those mines and add some monsters. And then we’ll add some levelling up, RPG-style. Better? I thought so.


March 17, 2010
News

In This Life-Saving Minesweeper Game, The Mines Are Real

Every year upwards of 20,000 lives are lost in war-torn countries due to unexploded ordinance such as land mines. Can a video game educate children about land mine avoidance where traditional methods have failed.


November 9, 2009
News

Minesweeper Becoming An Adventure Game

Charles Cecil, the brains behind adventure game classics Beneath A Steel Sky and Broken Sword, is working with charity developer OneBigGame on an all-new project: turning Minesweeper into – what else – an adventure game.


August 7, 2007
Uncategorized

Minesweeper: The Movie

You’d think movie execs would be on a Minesweeper film adaptation like they would cocaine on a Hollywood hooker’s ass, but it took the artistic renegades from College Humuor to finally tap into drama of the PC logic game that has been detonating productivity for decades. Even Windows anti-fans should appreciate this one.

Thanks for the tip, Luc!


August 2, 2007
Uncategorized

Mario Infecting Computers

Computer worm capitalising on retro gaming and Nintendo’s resurrection? Believe. Computers are getting infected via a Super Mario Bros. game attachment. Folks that click on it will infect their computers with the Romario-A worm, which spreads by sending itself to email address on the infected computer, forges the infected computer’s email and reduces system security. Other examples of malware packages masking as games include the Gonori-A Trojan with tantalises with Minesweeper. Okay, I can see accidently downloading Super Mario Bros., but Minesweeper? Talk about deserving it. Mario Worm [The Register via Game|Life]