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Meet our new interns.
Every couple months, we get a shiny new batch of interns. They’re bright, motivated, and photogenic. Here’s a quick snapshot of the new crop after we asked them introduce themselves. – – – Alex Martin “Alex is the grandson of an ex-member of the Amish church and the son of a Mennonite pastor. A husb
"You’re like a deer or elk in hunting season."
-Joe Tombari, a high-school teacher in Spokane, who “sometimes locks the door of his classroom during off-periods and checks under his car before he gets near it.” Tombari has been playing a game of tag with his friends for more than two decades. One of his friends hid in the trunk of his car and sc
Check Out Our CREATE Game Jam Submissions!
In case you missed it, we ran a game jam this month in partnership with OUYA called CREATE. 165 development teams (!) spent ten days building prototypes of brand new games for the upcoming OUYA console. And today you all get to see them. The CREATE prototype submission videos are now live HERE! We
"If you’re stuck on a puzzle in The Cave, take a break. Adventure games are meant to be savored like a fine meal, not eaten like junk food."
-game designer Ron Gilbert on his new game, The Cave. We interviewed Gilbert and co-writer Chris Remo earlier this week.
Want to know what the inside of Far Cry 3’s world looks like? We took a closer look.
A couple weeks ago, I headed up to Montreal, where it was colder than Hoth, to look beneath the hood of Far Cry 3. For each of the Kill Screen episodes on Creators Project, we’ve picked a specific angle for the game to hone in on. In this case, we looked at what it means to build a virtual world, sp
We may never finish making the case for games, but if we’re to succeed, we must make that case with compassion for those who feel victimized by violence in all its forms.
-On the heels of Obama’s announcement’s to pursue research on the connection of games to violence, Michael Abbott makes an appeal.
We wrote a vision statement to explain what we want to be.
Last fall, we packed up my girlfriend’s car and drove to two-story farmhouse in Athens, New York for a staff retreat. I had never done one of these before, but we felt like it was a good time to regroup and reflect on what we had done….and where we wanted to be. One thing we did was work on a missio
