A couple years ago, journalist Leigh Alexander gave an impassioned speech at the annual rants portion of the Game Developers Conference. Her point was very simple — if game designers don’t more openly talk about process and kept the workings of their engine and development cycle tighter than Apple’s
For Wii U launch day, the fine folks at Broken Rules (maker of one of my favorite spinning paper pastiche platformer And Yet It Moves) posted a mini-trailer for their new title Chasing Aurora. We’ve discussed this before, but the Wii U’s tablet opens up new local multiplayer opportunities and a fasc
Glued is a hilarious short about one mother’s quest to free her son from the clutches of his Super Nintendo. It was created by four students (Alon Tako, Guy Elnathan, Daniel Lichter and Sivan Kotek) at the Bezalel Academy of the Arts and Design in Israel for their 3rd year of animation studies. If y
Last week, Deadspin detailed the online travails of Adria Gasol, the youngest of the budding basketball dynasty Gasol family. Marc’s older brother Pau is an NBA all-star who just crossed the 15,000 point mark (joining other foreign-born pros like Hakeem Olajuwon and Steve Nash). Adria’s other older
