With the recent reboot of the Tomb Raider franchise by Square Enix and Crystal Dynamics, it’s a good opportunity to take a look at where the series began. We’ll play the original 1996 Tomb Raider from Eidos and Core Design …
What has changed over 28 years? This Friday, we’ll do a side-by-side comparison of Karateka, a game from Jordan Mechner (Prince of Persia, The Last Express). The original game (which we will play on an emulator) was developed for the …
It’s been more than a month since our last Friday Games! This will not stand. Actually, the lab has been going through a big renovation. Rik has been working tirelessly to get the TV and streaming computer mounted on the …
This Friday at 4pm, there will be fire in space! SpaceTeam and Space Alert run on completely different platforms (mobile and cardboard), but share the same core of realtime multiplayer coordination and This Ship Is Doomed We Are All Gonna …
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This Friday, the programmers of A Slower Speed of Light will take questions from Reddit! We’ll also show some old builds of the game and (if the room is interested) a preview of OpenRelativity, our open-source release of the game …
This Friday, we’ll try the new combo co-op mode of Halo 4, which allows four players to play through the campaign on two screens and two Xbox 360s. When the Quick Time Events (also new to the series) come up, …
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Sorry for the late notice, folks! This Friday, we’ll be looking at League of Legends, possibly the most popular online PC game right now with 12 million players logging in every day. It can be a little intimidating for someone …
Still suffering digital media overload after the barrage of election coverage? Us too! This week, we’ll be kicking it old school, playing a card game that MIT Game Lab researcher Todd Harper found at the Indiecade festival: Tiltfactor’s “Buffalo.” This …
This Friday at 4pm, we’re going to take a look at the most recent entry in the Assassin’s Creed series. Watch with us as we try to skip past as much of the parkour, sci-fi and killing and focus on …