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Yesterday it was announced with misgiving that THQ, the publisher responsible for completely respectable titles such as Saints Row and Darksiders 2, was folding. This was not unexpected, as the facts of the company’s fiscal woes were widely publicized. I’m not here to muckrake through the aftermath
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Professor Lindsay Grace of Miami University has started a Kickstarter campaign to fund his game Big Huggin’. Since the success of Double Fine, there are at least 1.7 trillion other campaigns on Kickstarter to fund games, so typically the emergence of another one doesn’t merit any sort of conversatio
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It’s no secret that social games like CityVille have a seedy underbelly, relying on casino schemes to keep players pumping in e-bucks and spamming friends. But now that there is a social game that purports to correct the social ill of poverty in the third world, you can feel better about idly wastin
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For those sports fans among us, last weekend was either a triumphant comeuppance or a tear-soaked binge of despair. The San Francisco 49ers beat the plucky Atlanta Falcons, and the Baltimore Ravens defeated the strangely-uninspired New England Patriots. And 80% of the media coverage leading up to th
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With our spinning jennies and textile mills and industry, the ancient Iranian craft of carpet weaving, which dates back some 2,500 years, is one that is lost to much of the modern world. Yet these luxurious woolen rugs with symmetrical patterns and paisley motifs are the subject of the devious Farsh
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Fans of videogames are known for a prolific outpouring of creativity in keeping their favorite characters alive beyond the screen. With ShiftyLook, an online symposium of free webcomics based on classic games, Namco Bandai is hoping to leverage that spirit in order to boost the visibility of its agi
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It goes without saying, but making a video game is, well, hard. The more I learn about development, the more it amazes me that any game gets completed, let alone stands as a functional, polished, even fun experience. That goes doubly so when making a game with a “message”. To be clear, all authored
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-game designer Ron Gilbert on his new game, The Cave. We interviewed Gilbert and co-writer Chris Remo earlier this week.
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Josh Nimoy spent a half year writing software art that became part of Tron: Legacy. He’s since posted a rundown of his process and his work. It’s total eye candy and for the code artists out there, a total sneak peek at the process of one of the most talented creators out there. There was one sectio
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At 9:00 EST, Nintendo streamed their latest in a series of pre-recorded videos, called Nintendo Direct, an initiative they began in October 2011. Some go in-depth into a soon-to-be-released game; some reveal upcoming details or tease future projects. Today’s was focused on their new console, the Wi
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That handsome incorrigible rouge of the British royal lineage, Prince Harry is at it again, this time ruffling up the Taliban by comparing war games to videogames. Last night, The Guardian posted an interview with the young prince, who, on his way home from a four month tour of duty in Afghanistan,
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The internet is a source of limitless amazement, as evidenced in this new trailer for Unearthed: Trail of Ibn Battuta, an Arabic developed knock-off of the Uncharted series, which has surfaced on Steam Greenlight. If you think the game’s treasure-hunting protagonist Faris Jawad looks familiar, you’r