News
Yesterday, Tim Schafer’s Double Fine Productions unveiled a Kickstarter page to fund its upcoming project, dubbed “Double Fine Adventure.” The goal was to raise $400,000 over a month to fund development for its new point-and-click adventure game. Less than 18 hours later, the project has raised well
News
Foxconn, a tech manufacturer in Taiwan, is hoping so at least. In the face of very grave labor conditions that have caused strikes and on-the-job-suicides, the company plans to replace many of its assembly-line workers with robots, while transitioning many of its 1.2 million employees into departmen
News
What does a claw game have in common with last year’s acclaimed JRPG Dark Souls? Well ok, maybe not all that much, but one thing the two games undeniably share is their legendary difficulty. But when does difficulty transition from a design flaw (as many detractors of arcade-style games call their a
News
Here’s some mainstream gaming news you might have missed while you were asleep. -The Playstation Vita store is now online. -Despite recent hacks of various users’ accounts, Microsoft says that Xbox Live has not been hacked. -The folks at Bethesda have been working on Skyrim mods, including dragon mo
News
There’s still a lot of cultural baggage that comes with pro gaming. Despite being a multi-million dollar enterprise with tons of sponsership and viewers, there’s still an association with gamers living in their parents basement and playing videogames all day. ESPN recently interviewed a few pro game
News
When it was recently revealed that same sex marriages were allowed in the game Skyrim, the head designer Pete Hines was asked why it was kept under wraps. “Not hush hush, just not making a huge deal out of it. You can marry anyone.” Translation: Why should it matter? In a recent article for IGN, Kez
News
Here it is, today’s mainstreaming gaming news in one convenient box. – The 3DS is getting a twenty dollar price drop to compete with the Vita. – BioWare are taking the Mass Effect universe in a different direction with an iOS title. – Paradox Interactive, makers of Magicka, will be announcing a mult
News
You read that right. nothing is a board game with a few days left on Kickstarter. Aside from having a hilarious trailer and a seemingly endless list of potentially awful puns, nothing has the makings of a simple, fun family game. Lance Aston’s project has precious few days left to raise the necessar
News
Yesterday in a blog post on the official PlayStation Blog, it was revealed that the Simpsons arcade game would be available today on PSN. It’s a mostly-faithful adaptation of the original arcade game, which is pretty sweet. As both big gamers and die-hard Simpsons fans, we’re psyched. -Drew Millard
News
Get the directions here. -Jamin Warren [via CMYBacon]
News
In an interview yours truly did for Gamasutra, I spoke with experimental game maker Jake Elliott about Chopin’s Preludes, which were the source of inspiration for his short game Ruins. Jake explained to me how games might be entering a Romantic period. The Preludes are really expressive. That’s ano
News
For years Major League Soccer has been trying to think up ways to drum up interest in the world’s most popular sport. Think no more MLS, because this youtube clip might be the ticket. Nothing about the game would have to change: attach shock training collars onto everybody on the field (including th