The Portal series. Easily two of my favorite PC games, and mind-blowing when you really think about them. Maybe even a little creepy.
Video: Crushed Between Two Portals Experiment (Portal 2)
Play Titanic: Adventure Out of Time Online
Image: Titanic: Adventure Out of Time Online
In 1996, Cyberflix published a PC adventure game called Titanic: Adventure Out of Time. It’s one of those games that’s always stuck with me, even though I’ve never actually finished it, and I’ll tell you why.
A Different Kind of Time Travel: The Music of Today, Yesterday!
I don’t want to spoil the pure awesome that is Bioshock Infinite (well, no more than I already have), but one of the coolest things about the game is its music. Not only does it have an incredible original score, but interspersed throughout the narrative are curious hints that things in Columbia are not what …
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Exploring “A Slower Speed of Light”
Produced by MIT Game Lab, A Slower Speed of Light is an open-source “game prototype” that takes players on a (very) short tour of the relativistic nature of light. It’s more a demonstration than a game, though. Players are tasked with collecting floating spheres, and for each sphere they collect, the speed of light slows …
The Apocalypse Hits World Of Warcraft
A few days ago, players in the popular MMORPG World of Warcraft began to mysteriously drop dead in the streets of the game’s major cities. In the following video, you can watch how the virtual doomsday occurred in the Alliance city of Stormwind. Corpses lined the streets, others waited to die. By the time it …
Digital: A Love Story
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I started using the Internet around 1999, when I was about 13 years old. We’d already had a PC for maybe five years, and a Commodore 64 well before that. But getting online and browsing the web was an awesome new thing to us. The old stuff had a lot of charm, too: Prodigy, CompuServe, …
Herobrine: The Phantom Doppelganger Of Minecraft
Let me tell you a story about Herobrine. If you’ve never played Minecraft, it’s a game of relatively endless possibilities. What began as nothing more than virtual LEGOs has evolved into one of the best sandboxes ever created, selling over 4.5 million copies. You can build, fight, excavate, explore. You’re limited only by your imagination, …
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