It’s generally accepted that crowd-funding services are invaluable to games, allowing creative types to get things done without the oversight of a greedy publisher, who’d typically push for safe bets. However, in a recent interview, comments by Tim Schafer of Doublefine, whose game Broken Age was fu
Wasteland 2, the long-awaited followup to a classic brought back to life by the miracle of Kickstarter, is now out in beta version, and the developer inXile is strongly encouraging those who have it to stream its post-apocalyptic vision of terra cotta sands. This is a sign that times are a’changing.
Filmmaker Keiichi Matsuda has launched a Kickstarter campaign to fund a series of futuristic short films that will both illustrate our augmented-reality future and be ripped off in every sci-fi videogame and film between now and then. Dubbed Hyper-Reality: A New Vision of the Future, the proposed se
We’re not sure what to make of this one. Lisa looks to be a typical modern pixellated platformer, but it is actually a role-playing game. Does it treat the issue of torture irresponsibly, or is it a scathing criticism of its portrayal in media? And what about amputees? If the game’s set in a society
An epoch is coming to a close. A meteor the size of Pangaea, the great uni-continent, gleams in the atmosphere. A mysterious melody of bleeps and bloops wails from somewhere you know not. And a stampede of triceratopses, raptors, brontosauruses, and pterodactyls instinctively run to the right, the m
