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Seduce Me, the too-steamy-for-Steam sex game, is out now
Last fall we interviewed Miriam Bellard, one half of the duo behind Seduce Me, the indie converse-and-get-perverse game that Steam yanked from Greenlight for indecency. Speaking to Bellard, I realized that the game wasn’t a cash grab or a stunt; she legitimately wants to address what they perceive a
"For game development as a whole, there doesn’t seem to be a losing scenario"
Rami Ismail, of Super Crate Box developer Vlambeer, forecasted the impact of the Ouya to the Penny Arcade Report’s Ben Kuchera.
Someone collated MobyGame’s entire archive (!) and made these graphs
These graphs, from a larger paper done by Mike Zuurman of Xentax, show a dramatic decrease in the number of games released since 2009. As the author notes, this may be due to decreased reporting by gamers (entries at MG are user-generated), because it doesn’t seem to square that the real number of g
Does a Mid-Core gamer know what Mid-Core means?, and other Koans
As you have no doubt been told by now, there are AT LEAST two different kinds of gamers: core (slobbering, mouth-breathing tweens, teens) and casual (moms, people who put games in the same category as toasters). Well, it has started to strike some folks that this binary is not particularly subtle, n
There is a fan-made Jurassic Park game based on the Half-Life engine. Happy new year!
Though created for different mediums and concerning totally different worlds, Half-Life and Jurassic Park share an overarching theme, one at least as old as Mary Shelley: experimental science, taken too far, can have enormous destructive power. Now, they share something else: an engine. The fan-made
Avast! On the horizon, a new gaming journal!
If you are a videogame nerd you will love Well Played. And When I say nerd, I don’t mean everybody who plays videogame players, but those who enjoy exploring the esoteric realm of videogame study (ludologists and narratologists, you know who you are). A description of the journal from their website
Best Christmas present ever: Grim Fandango now playable on a Mac
Grim Fandango, the greatest game ever made, is now playable on Mac thanks to the perserverance of some aboslute heroes. Hijole! We won’t miss the poisoning after all! The day is finally upon us, after 9 years, 4 months and 6 days, we are proud to announce the first stable release of ResidualVM, and
The original Sims design documents are fascinating
The Sims, like most transcendent games, feels natural, like it always existed. It’s almost hard to wrap your mind around the idea that very complex and very painstaking design had to go into making something that is so elegant and so parsimonious, but of course, it did. Don Hopkins, a progammer inst
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