The Ten Greatest Videogame Theme Songs

Everyone likes subjective lists that pretend to be definitive, right? Good! Because here’s another one that is completely objective and does not at all betray my preference for certain types of music. Cataloged here, for your auditory pleasure, are the

2012 IGF Pirate Kart Releases, Makes Busy Gamers Cry

“Damn, I hope this 1.14 gig download doesn’t but me over my bandwidth limit.” “What are you doing, downloading a video games?” “No. I’m downloading 313 video games.” That’s right, the 2012 IGF Pirate Kart has been released. Previous Pirate

My Kingdom for a Horse Armor Pack: What Was Lost With the Rise of DLC

Note: Minor spoilers for Deus Ex: Human Revolution follow. On April 3, 2006, Bethesda released the first piece of new content for The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion. The “Horse Armor Pack” allowed the player to acquire barding for their horses

When War Was Fun: A Battlefield 1942 Retrospective

It’s 2002, and I’m gazing in rapt attention at my monitor, a friend looking over my shoulder. It’s 1943, and I’m piloting a fully-loaded landing craft towards the Japanese air base on Wake Island. I wince as a Japanese fighter

Human Revolution Game Director: Boss Fights Were "exactly what we asked for."

In his review of Deus Ex: Human Revolution, Rock Paper Shotgun’s John Walker recognized that the game’s controversial boss fights were not just a nuisance, but a mystery. “Feeling as though they were programmed by another team, from another planet,