Area 5 on the quest to make a This American Life for videogames
There’s hope for us yet.
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Rain World is pretty much a .gif factory
We covered the post-apocalyptic jumper Rain World before. The plot eludes us but it seems sometime in the distant future slugs and cats become inseparably combined. The game crushed its funding goal on Kickstarter, because, well, slugcats (though after studying them closely I have a suspicion they’r
Hyper Light Drifter delayed till end of year so it can become even more beautiful
The story of Hyper Light Drifter is of runaway success, which is impressive for a game that hasn’t reached closed beta yet. (That’s happening in June, according to an update over the weekend.) The game exceeded its funding goal on Kickstarter by something like $600,000 and then some change, back in
Square Enix’s confusing crowd-screening platform explained
The Square Enix Collective, the Final Fantasy maker’s, uh, crowd-something platform—launched yesterday, but it’s actually just a screening process for games that will appear on Square’s official Indiegogo page. Confusing, I know, but I can explain. The way it works is that if a game garners enough i
Go behind the scenes of Scale, Steve Swink’s maybe-masterpiece
A game of proportions gets big.