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Nintendo is Recalibrating Metacritic

Metacritic is considered the industry standard for game ratings, and rightly so.  By aggregating the opinions and evaluations of well informed and well versed game reviewers, Metacritic is a fairly accurate evaluation of the quality of a video game.  Large and small development companies alike seek to achieve a high Metacritic score, which is understood [...]

Miliary Suicide Game’s Design Breakdown

Edge Online recently posted an article about the serious game title Beyond the Front, an interactive movie by WILL Interactive that brings the player through the perils of war.  Not war like Call of Duty war, we’re talking about the day to day monotony of military service, the relentless stress that comes with it, and [...]

Level Up by Making Someone Smile

The concept of a “game” is much broader than many people realize. It’s easy to think that games are confined to wireless controllers and television screens, but the simple properties of a game, a subset of rules with a goal in mind, can expand far beyond TVs and into the real world.
A few companies [...]