Minecraft: The Best Example of Games As Art

The brilliance of Portal 2’s multiplayer is not in the way it expands Portal’s dynamics by incorporating an additional player and an extra pair of portals to play with, but rather how it’s designed for and around the more organic qualities of the basic multiplayer experience. For example, even though the game requires intense communication,…

Best Multiplayer Games Like Don’t Starve Together

Let me begin by saying that this episode is particularly short, like a little over an hour short. I guess that’s what happens when the first two episodes are only separated by a few weeks, but the fact that to get the entire experience you have to play through it twice sort of pans out…

Vertical Slice Demos Provide a Clear-Cut Advantage

Stickmanhasfeet’s battleship is impressive as it is, but it’s even more awesome when players realize that they actually completed this build in survival mode. The sheer dedication needed for something like this is impressive, but hard work tends to pay The idea is that the chicken is trapped and bred. When the babies grow up,…

In the Next Generation of Video Games, Indies are the New Exclusives

From everything that we’ve seen and heard so far, it looks like gaming companies are doing just the same, as an arms race to acquire as many indie games as possible is about to get very heated. Just like there is still some studio executive who is kicking himself for missing out on The Blair…

Ten Best (Non-Shooter) Multiplayer Games of the Generation

The idea is that the chicken is trapped and bred. When the babies grow up, they are burned by the lava and automatically turned into cooked chicken. It may be a little gruesome, but gamers must remember they aren’t real chickens! To build this requires no work at all. Simply place an enclosed block of…