Amnesia: The Dark Descent was one of my favorite games of last year.  Beyond being loosely based on H.P. Lovecraft’s The Outsider, which is a story I love, it creates a sense of dread and psychoemotional oppression that is very rare in the horror video game today.  I find it …

Happiest Birthday wishes to the NES quest, The Legend of Zelda. This week, in 1986, Link’s original journey to save Princess Zelda was released in Japan. Celebrate by plugging in your old NES or buying the game on the Wii’s Virtual Console and saving the world from Ganon once more …

This fall, Microsoft launched it’s controller-less motion-sensing über peripheral, Kinect. We’ve all done the “mashed potato” in Dance Central, played with our cuddly (but ferocious) lion in Kinectimals and bemoaned the onset of tennis elbow from playing too much Kinect Sports. Now the real fun begins. When the hackers and …

Artist Robert Overweg is a self-described “Virtual Photographer” taking his inspiration from the digital worlds in which many of us spend our time. Of course, every gamer knows the patchwork of code can occasionally tear at the seams, resulting in glitches. Whether it’s your character falling through a hole in …