In Impossible Road, players take control of a white ball, steering it from a third-person perspective down an ever-growing path suspended in a stark white abyss. As the game’s title indicates, it isn’t possible to get to the end of this randomly generated road, but–much like in life–inevitable death does not serve as a deterrent here. Using virtual left and right arrow buttons, players try desperately to navigate the ball across sharp turns, bumps in the road, and death-defying bends in the track in pursuit of the next checkpoint. Soon, though, once-frustrated players learn the game’s secret; cheating is fun.

Borrowing from the likes of Mario Kart’s “Rainbow Road,” Impossible Road allows–nay, encourages–players to skip parts of the track, flying off of one section and attempting to land on another. This high-risk, high-reward technique is the best way to amp up one’s score, but it’s not the easiest feat to accomplish. After launching from the track, players have about five seconds to land on another section of the winding road beneath them–a hidden countdown indicated by the fading out of the screen. At times, you’ll find yourself centimeters away from landing on the next piece of the track as the screen fades out, causing the run to end. It’s massively frustrating, but in the  way that makes you start a new run immediately.

That leads me to one of Impossible Road’s greatest accomplishments. Like so many games on the App Store try–but fail–to contain, this game has that addicting X-factor as seen in titles like Ridiculous Fishing and Candy Crush. With its minimalistic style and quick reload times, the end of one run leads almost naturally into the next. After a “death,” nothing but the word “AGAIN?” appears on the screen (a nice arcade-y touch), and it’s hard not to say, “Of course I’m going to try again. Why wouldn’t I?” Thirty minutes later you’ll realize you’ve missed a meeting. On the other hand, you managed to set three new high scores. We all have priorities, no?

Visually speaking, the game is pretty, though its style does not lend itself to the blow-you-out-of-the-water graphics the iPad’s retina screen is capable of. More importantly is the challenge presented by the visual design. With a white ball over white space and a mostly white track, the only color present on-screen is the road’s blue highlights (as shown in the image above). This works as another of the game’s challenges. At times, players must trust where the road is beneath them, as the white ball on the screen can all-but cover up the path ahead. It isn’t a case of “difficulty for difficulty’s sake,” however–merely a part of Impossible Road’s learning curve.

Speaking of presentation, the game also touts a nice little techno soundtrack that–despite multiple runs–doesn’t seem to get old. It, too, matches the minimalistic style that Ng is clearly proud to present.

Undeniably addicting and massively fun, Impossible Road does have one issue to speak of. While the game knows it doesn’t play by real-world rules of physics (after all, its protagonist is a white ball careening down a winding path, suspended in mid-air), the physics system it does adhere to isn’t 100% reliable. While a decent number of interactions with the track produce the same result each and every time, every now and then you’ll find yourself flung from the road after colliding with an edge, or flying over a turn you could have sworn you were aligned to navigate correctly. This problem is slightly forgivable for two reasons, though. First of all, this is a game that encourages “cheating,” so you’re bound to run into some unorthodox collisions with the track, and secondly, with retry times so quick, it’s hard to stay mad at a “glitch” for too long.

Impossible Road is a great little game that, quite frankly, will not do as well on the App Store as it should. With a price point at $1.99, players will inevitably overlook it, despite the fact that there really is nothing else quite like it on the market. That said–speaking as someone who always seems to have unused App Store money–it’s certainly worth dipping into that iTunes giftcard from grandma to give Impossible Road a try.

Despite his ties to the Epic community, that’s not the only work he’s done. In fact, he’s done a lot of really great pieces from other universes. We’ll be highlighting some of those and more in today’s Fan Art Favorites!

You can also find Tim on Twitter under the handle @arukun14.

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Next week we’ll take a look at some Dead Space concept art.

Recently an EA employee, Bob Summerwill, senior systems engineer and architect at EA Sports, took to Twitter to discuss his issues with the console. “The WiiU is crap. Less powerful than an XBOX360,” he began,  ”Poor online/store. Weird tablet. Nintendo are walking dead at this point.”

“Nintendo platforms have always been very poor revenue-wise for third parties. Only Mario and Zelda make money. . .WiiU isn’t where that family/casual market is. It’s on mobile/tablet now!”

All of his relevent tweets can be found below in case they are deleted. What are your thoughts? Has Nintendo already failed? Or are they simply holding on until all of their big AAA titles can be released?

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If you’ve grown accustom to searching every single bin or perhaps finding every single Nirnroot, you can still do so, and Paul Sage, Creative Director, emphasizes that any items that you find will be part of the crafting system.

Learn about standing stones, lockpicking, sky stones, and more in the video that follows.

We’ve seen glimpses of abandoned buildings and overgrown streets before, but now we have a bunch of screenshots showing off various environs. Check out the extensive gallery below, full of some combat, the occasional zombie, and a few creepy abandoned buildings for good measure. The Last of Us launches June 14th exclusively for the PS3.

Today, however, thanks to our friends over at All Games Beta, we know one more thing about DriveClub – it looks absolutely gorgeous. Eight new screens show off some of what the PS4 will be capable of when it hits later this year and are worth checking out.

What do you think of the screens? Are you interested in DriveClub? Let us know in the comments.

Exclusive to Amazon, fans of the Madden series can pre-order the Anniversary Edition for $100 and score  NFL Sunday Ticket. In addition to the ability to have NFL Sunday Ticket, you’ll also receive a special Ultimate Team pack each week of the regular season.

The version of NFL Sunday Ticket that you’ll receive will only be able to be used on a computer or mobile device, however. Below, we’ve included the breakdown from EA SPORTS within their press release.

• Fans who are not currently DIRECTV subscribers but are able to receive DIRECTV service will receive a promo code entitling them to $10 off per month for their first year of service and one year of NFL SUNDAY TICKET MAXat no additional charge.
• Fans who are already DIRECTV and NFL SUNDAY TICKET MAX subscribers can access NFL SUNDAYTICKET on computer and mobile devices using their current DIRECTV username and password.
• For fans unable to receive DIRECTV service, each Madden NFL 25 Anniversary Edition will include a unique code to access the 2013 regular season (17 weeks) trial of NFL SUNDAY TICKET on computers, tablets, and mobile devices- including access to DIRECTV’s award-winning RED ZONE CHANNEL^®.

For fans who don’t have NFL Sunday ticket, this is a bit of a no-brainer. You’ll be able to score the service for free (after the cost of the Anniversary Edition, of course) and use it on mobile devices or your computer. Want it on your TV? It’s fairly simple to setup the ability to stream content from a mobile device to a television, and even easier to do it from a laptop.

Are you planning on pre-ordering the special edition of the game to take advantage of the offer? With over $400 worth of content for only $100, it’s hard not to at least think about pulling the trigger here. Be sure to let us know what you think by leaving us a comment below, or discuss Madden NFL 25 in our community.