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Cheat Sheet 6/14: Nintendo admits doubts over Wii U controller, supposed Thief 4 trailer leaks, and Journey developer raises $5.5 million.
Get a helmet, there’s a big storm of game news coming. –The Dark Knight Rises gets a mobile game. –Journey‘s Thatgamecompany raises $5.5 million to help develop next game. -Microsoft drops support for Gamescom and Tokyo Game Show. -Nintendo’s Satoru Iwata admits the company almost abandoned Wii U co
Tim Schafer discusses narrative, noir, and the advantages of omission.
Tim Schafer, lead writer and creative director of some of the most inventive and moving adventure games ever (Grim Fandango, Psychonauts, Brütal Legend), writes beyond what his games show on the screen. His recent interview with On The Media–cut from a longer interview about Schafer’s multimillion d
Epic forms new studio in Baltimore with former Amalur developers.
Epic Games has created a new studio, Epic Baltimore, largely staffed by former Big Huge Games employees. Interviewed in a story for Eurogamer, Epic’s Mark Rein explains how Epic responded after hearing news of the studios demise. “Mike [Capps, President of Epic] is the total hero there. They called
Diablo III’s real money Auction House launches, fights against players becoming too productive.
Yesterday Blizzard finally launched the real money Auction House for Diablo III, an event the company had delayed a number of times, in part, to address issues with hacked accounts and people using improper gold farming techniques. While Blizzard continues to wrestle with these issues, the Auction H
Do women action heroes always have to be role models?
Must women protagonists be role models before they’re seen as individual human characters? Writing for Think Progress, Alyssa Rosenberg considers the challenges of portraying women heroes in pop culture. “First, members of a minority group, or of a group like women that are a majority but are poorly
Slavoj iek actually has a Call of Duty poster in his living room.
Who knows why the endearingly blustery 21st-century philosopher from Slovenia hung a poster of Call of Duty: Black Ops in his living room? Either way, according to this recent Guardian profile, the celebrated/ridiculed genius/”Borat of philosophy” does indeed have the poster. We can only hope that h
Encrypted mobile communications are here, but will gamers ever get privacy?
If you’re willing to shell out $20 a month, you can encrypt your phone calls and instant messages with a new app called Silent Circle. The app’s creator, Phil Zimmermann, thinks it’s a service worth paying for. “I’m not going to apologize for the cost,” Zimmermann told CNET, adding that the final p
The most dangerous (video) game on the generative English countryside.
Drifting toward a more Deist approach to the in-game world, Big Robot’s in-development Sir, You Are Being Hunted generates its own environment. Ostensibly, Hunted is a game of surviving on moors patroled by rabid, robotic, tea-drunk gentelmen poachers, who presumably shoot on sight. But these spooky
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