Speed Demos Archive, the place where gaming’s most impressive athletes demonstrate their mastery, is currently holding Awesome Games Done Quick, a week-long fundraising event, the proceeds of which are entirely donated to the Prevent Cancer Foundation. Speed runners will attempt more than 100 games
The United States, population 315,129,543, spent about 17 billion dollars on gaming last year. China, population 1,319,175,330 (that’s four times as big) spent more than half that on videogames in 2012 (9.7 billion), according to The Next Web. That makes China, with its urban migration trends and ec
Well, it looks like we’re going to get a movie based on Team Ico’s last game before we get their next one. Seth Lochhead, who wrote the pretty-good-not-great teen assassin movie Hanna, will write the script, according to the Hollywood Reporter. Josh Trank, who directed the great-great teen superpowe
In honor of the silver annivesary of Hironobu Sakaguchi’s baby, a group of Final Fantasy fansites banded together to create a wonderful tribute: a one-off digital magazine. The project includes retrospectives for each game in the series, profiles of important developers who have worked on the games,
–Ben Murch, cofounder of Rodeo games, on the just-announced Nvidia handheld.
Endgame: Syria, a simulation/strategy game in which you play as the rebels in the two-year-old uprising in that country, has been rejected by Apple for distribution on their app store, according to the game’s makers. A press release from Auroch Digital, Endgame‘s developer, states that the game was
You know that annual study that quantifies how much money is lost through hours of unproductive worktime during March Madness? Well, I’ve got news for the bosses of the world: browser-based gaming is the final frontier of workplace time-wasting. It’s not enough that we’ve got browser-based SNES emu
According to the comment thread in r/gaming, this big version of one of last year’s very best indie games was set up at Fantastic Fest in Austin. Heroic work.