Turning the difficulty up brings out the best cooperation.
There’s nothing like an almost-punishing challenge to bring a group together, and those bonds cross over the digital divide.
Can Halo convince us to Hunt the Truth?
Gaming is a huge modern storytelling medium, and some of the stories coming from gaming are as deep and thought-provoking as novels. So what will it take to get non-gamers interested in them?
Call of Duty’s “No Russian” is more than “shooting up an airport.”
Intelligame’s founding premise is that we shouldn’t fear taking gaming seriously. Perhaps that’s why Kotaku’s recent article about the “No Russian” mission in Modern Warfare 2 bothers me…or, more specifically, its title.
Game of Dice is a Monopoly Casino: fun, but the house always wins.
Interesting that I would lead off talking about Game of Dice with a statement that sounds suspiciously like addiction, especially considering it takes place in a fictional casino. But that setting feels appropriate; it’s a streamlined, exciting version of Monopoly, but I wonder if someone’s pulling strings.
Rest can be Super-Effective.
The relationship we have with rest varies from person to person…some of us love it, others despise it. Generally, resting seems poorly-timed in gaming and life, but it’s still critical every so often.
Do Black People Play Board Games?
My new local board game store is in a section of town with tons of black people…I’ve just never seen any of them in the store. And when I think about it, I’ve rarely seen them in other board game stores, either.
The Importance of the Visual Novel
Playing Three-Fourths Home on XBox One taught me a couple things: 1) I’m impatient, and 2) visual novels are a critical component of gaming’s growth in storytelling ability.
The Martian’s Laserlife: Space and Existentialism
I can’t help but think of Matt Damon’s new movie The Martian inside the framework of Choice Provision’s new space game Laserlife. Inside that intersection is a paradox about life I can’t quite resolve.
Why Aren’t Star Wars Battlefront and Call of Duty Learning from Titanfall?
Titanfall was one of the first big first-person shooters for current-gen systems, and it carved out a lot of new ground in the FPS space by refining some common genre elements and introducing a couple new ones. So why haven’t games like Call of Duty: Black Ops III and Star Wars:...
Reading Your Opponent (and Yourself): Fighting Games and Fighting Life
Fighting games are basically the Poker of the video game world…well, the Poker that isn’t Poker. And there’s just as much to learn…I started learning in the second grade.