Gaming

South Korean University Now Accepts Gamers as Student Athletes

Man, remember how your folks would harass you about getting ahead in life rather than molting in front of a video game for 42 hours on end? Throw this in your mama’s face: Chung-Ang University in South Korea now considers competitive gamers the same as traditional athletes. And it’s a top 10 (South Korean) school!…

Tech News Bob Sorokanich Mar 19

Gaming Deals: Born of the Gods, Dwarven Forge, SOI&F RPG & more

The savvy tabletop gamer can find lots of great deals on games, terrain, and more. Luckily, I’ve done most of the work for you. Check out these excellent springtime game sales. Note: a few of these sales are affiliate links, but none of them are paid ads, just some deals I found. The Song of…

io9 Ed Grabianowski Mar 14

Leaked Controller Suggests Amazon’s Set-Top-Box Will Be a Gaming Machine

Zatz Not Funny just posted images of an Amazon-branded gaming controller that supposedly found its way to the world through an overseas regulatory agency. If real, the controller suggests that Amazon could be planning to use gaming to differentiate its long-rumored set-top-box from the Apple TVs and Rokus of the world. Following the success of…

Commerce Mario Aguilar Mar 14

These GIFs Will Make You Nostalgic For Your Favorite NES Games

Before the hi-def graphics of modern consoles, there was the Nintendo Entertainment System—a world steeped in glorious 8-bit imagery. These GIFs by New York-based Brother Brain (aka John McGregor) show how the in-game art compared with real world photos. And somehow, the 8-bit versions are still way more fun. Jaws (NES) LJN 1987 vs Jaws…

Tech News Jordan Kushins Mar 13

Razer’s Righteous New Blade Might Be the Best Windows Laptop Yet

The 2013 Razer Blade was fantastic. A finally great execution on a concept that’s been appealing as hell from the very start, a Windows gaming laptop with the premium feel of a MacBook. Now it’s back again, and yes, it is even better. Everything we loved about Blades past is still here: a stellar keyboard,…

Tech News Eric Limer Mar 12

Classic 90s RPG Mutant Chronicles Returns, with Demons and Megacorps

Mutant Chronicles and its blend of space mutants, megacorp technocracies, and bizarre demonic forces has been in developer limbo for years, but as this gallery of stunning Paul Bonner art shows, it’s ready to make a grand return. British publisher Modiphius Entertainment has taken control of the Mutant Chronicles license, reading the game’s long-awaited 3rd…

io9 Ed Grabianowski Feb 27

The Science of Why You Loved Flappy Bird So Much

Long live Flappy Bird, the game we loved to hate. But why oh why was that simple little game so awfully compelling? https://gizmodo.com/flappy-bird-is-officially-gone-from-the-app-store-1519308800 In this video, Sci Show explains how our love of Flappy Bird—and other video games for that matter—are fuelled by a deep-seated human desire for achievement, however trivial. Successful achievement releases dopamine…

Tech News Jamie Condliffe Feb 26

Numenera Bestiary unleashes the bizarre beasts of the Ninth World

Far-future science fantasy RPG Numenera got a lot weirder with the release of the Numenera Bestiary, a collection of mutants, other-dimensional intruders, aliens and even stranger things. Check out the weirdness in this incredible art gallery. Top image: Nibovian Companion by Kieran Yanner Creature catalogs are usually my favorite part of any RPG, and Numenera…

io9 Ed Grabianowski Feb 21

This Last of Us concept art is the coolest post-apocalyptic art in ages

The Playstation game The Last of Us is one of the most important post-apocalyptic stories of the past few years, so it’s not surprising that the game’s concept art is also pretty astonishing. Artist John Sweeney shared a ton of the concept art he created for The Last of Us over at the Concept Art…

io9 Charlie Jane Anders Feb 19

In the TimeWatch RPG, paradoxes are part of the fun

Someone murdered an ambassador’s wife, leading to a NATO vs. Warsaw Pact war in the 1960s. Your team is on the case, but not to bring the killer to justice. This is TimeWatch – and your job is to prevent this crime from ever happening in the first place. Time travel is one of the…

io9 Ed Grabianowski Feb 17

EONS: A game where you create the universe and then destroy it

In EONS, stars form and planets give rise to life within a few turns. A few turns later, your opponent might make your star go supernova or obliterate your planet with a cosmic collision. EONS is a card game at its core, although there is a game board used to track turns and the current…

io9 Ed Grabianowski Feb 11

Wait, What? Flappy Bird’s Creator Says He’s Removing The Game (Updated)

A tweetfrom Dong Nguyen, creator of the maddening and virally popular game Flappy Bird, says the game will disappear from the Android and iOS app stores at noon tomorrow. And here I’d just gotten past the first three pipes! Update: He followed through; Flappy Bird is officially gone from the App Store and Google Play.…

Tech News Bob Sorokanich Feb 8

A strategy guide to “Real Life,” the game every one of us is playing

Oliver Emberton, who writes about “understanding and getting the most from life,” has penned a clever, illustrated strategy guide for this hot new RPG you may have heard about. It’s called “Real Life” – and literally everyone is playing it. Here’s Emberton on “The Basics”: You might not realise, but real life is a game…

io9 Robbie Gonzalez Feb 8

Legends walk among us in this Magic the Gathering: Born of the Gods art

The latest Magic: the Gathering expansion, Born of the Gods, will be released this weekend. When gods walk among mortals, it makes for some amazing art, which you can see in this Born of the Gods art gallery. Born of the Gods continues the Greek mythology themed story from the previous set, Theros. There are…

io9 Ed Grabianowski Feb 6

Why Dungeons & Dragons Still Matters

Dungeons and Dragons – arguably the single most revolutionary turn to the Action/Fantasy RPG genre – turned 40 last week. Here’s why it’s still relevant today. In a must-read post over at Boing Boing, Ethan Gilsdorf – author of Fantasy Freaks and Gaming Geeks – looks back on the last forty years of pen-and-paper role-playing…

io9 Robbie Gonzalez Feb 2

Dwarven mechs battle the bones of giants in War of Metal and Bone RPG

War of Metal and Bone is an RPG with an great elevator pitch: it’s a war between dwarves, using massive metal golems and warriors soul-bonded to giant skeletons. The game also takes advantage of the many open source game systems used by popular indie RPGs today. Lead designer Tracy Barnett explained how War of Metal…

io9 Ed Grabianowski Jan 27

Chaosmos board game keeps you on the edge of cosmic catastrophe

In the board game Chaosmos, the Chaos Clock counts down to the complete collapse of the universe. Hidden on some desolate planet protected by traps and trickery is an artifact that can save the cosmos — but you’re not the only one after it. Chaosmos is an original board game in which players play aliens…

io9 Ed Grabianowski Jan 17

D&D Fourth Edition is the perfect game for wizard-on-wizard action

With the next edition of Dungeons & Dragons finally ready for release later this year, you may be thinking it’s time to garage sale all those 4th Edition books on your shelf. Here’s a better idea – use them for player-versus-player wizard battles. 4E has a pretty bad rep: too focused on combat, too rigid,…

io9 Ed Grabianowski Jan 16

This 8-Bit Harmonica Makes Blowing Into NES Carts Musical

Even if the original Nintendo Entertainment System was well before your time, you’re probably still aware of a well-known issue that prevented games from working until you blew into the cartridges to clean off the contacts. Taking that idea one step further, YouTuber Basami Sentaku has turned a few old NES (or Famicom, to be…

Tech News Andrew Liszewski Jan 14

Valve Wants to Create Standardized, Affordable VR Controllers

Virtual Reality can be great, but it’s expensive and highly proprietary. That might soon change, though, because Valve apparently wants to create an affordable and standardized systemfor in-game VR control. The BBC reports that Valve will unveil a software development kit at Steam Dev Days which starts on January 15th. According to Valve designer Brian…

Tech News Jamie Condliffe Jan 9

South Korean University Now Accepts Gamers as Student Athletes

Gaming Deals: Born of the Gods, Dwarven Forge, SOI&F RPG & more

Leaked Controller Suggests Amazon’s Set-Top-Box Will Be a Gaming Machine

These GIFs Will Make You Nostalgic For Your Favorite NES Games

Razer’s Righteous New Blade Might Be the Best Windows Laptop Yet

Classic 90s RPG Mutant Chronicles Returns, with Demons and Megacorps

The Science of Why You Loved Flappy Bird So Much

Numenera Bestiary unleashes the bizarre beasts of the Ninth World

This Last of Us concept art is the coolest post-apocalyptic art in ages

In the TimeWatch RPG, paradoxes are part of the fun

EONS: A game where you create the universe and then destroy it

Wait, What? Flappy Bird’s Creator Says He’s Removing The Game (Updated)

A strategy guide to “Real Life,” the game every one of us is playing

Legends walk among us in this Magic the Gathering: Born of the Gods art

Why Dungeons & Dragons Still Matters

Dwarven mechs battle the bones of giants in War of Metal and Bone RPG

Chaosmos board game keeps you on the edge of cosmic catastrophe

D&D Fourth Edition is the perfect game for wizard-on-wizard action

This 8-Bit Harmonica Makes Blowing Into NES Carts Musical

Valve Wants to Create Standardized, Affordable VR Controllers

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