Ubisoft’s Assassin’s Creed series has always contained a wealth of history, with real-world people like Edward “Blackbeard” Thatch taking part in the action and real-world events like the Boston Massacre unfolding in front of your eyes. But the next installment...
Ask anyone who’s ever played Grand Theft Auto IV and not killed a pimp in real life: We say videogames don’t lead to violent behavior. But many studies, written by people who have more degrees than me, suggest they do. Ph.D candidate Paul Adachi, who co-authored an...
Do you like Temple Run but would rather use the iPad’s touch screen rather than the motion-detecting accelerometer? Do you like the secret agents and wry graphics in the vein of the 2004 RTS game, Evil Genius? Do you like your martinis shaken, not stirred? If...
Image by Ida C. Benedetto If you’ve been to the Rose Center for Earth and Space, a.k.a. the Planetarium in New York City’s American Museum of Natural History, you know just how impressive it is. (Really, really impressive.) But thanks to a group of independent game...
