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"I don’t believe this is an immediate threat to Microsoft or Sony"
-Jesse Divinich, vice president of insights and analysis at Electronic Entertainment Design and Research, to GameLife, on the wave of new consoles.
The outcry about Dead Island shows how far games have come
The first truly major marketing gaffe of 2013 arrived yesterday, in the form of a bloodied, dismembered, bikini-clad statue offered to UK and Australian purchasers of Dead Island: Riptide special edition. It was a display of spectacular density, since publisher Deep Silver seems to have forgotten al
Creator of VVVVVV and Super Hexagon abandons RPG project, goes fishing
Terry Cavanagh, on his developer’s blog, recently shared the news that he is no longer moving forward with his in-progress RPG, Nexus City. I’ve been thinking of Nexus City as ‘the thing I’m working on’ since 2010. As a result, for a long time now, I’ve felt like I wasn’t really in control of what I
Is a Fallout TV show in the works?
War never changes, but the medium might. United States patent application number 85818163 was filed by Bethesda Softworks LLC on January 8th. It requests a trademark for the Fallout trademark for “Entertainment services in the nature of an on-going television program set in a post-nuclear apocalypti
Some champions built real life Mario Kart and it’s the best thing you’ll see today
The first half of the following video details how, exactly, the “cowboy engineers” at Waterloo Labs built the famous item system of Mario Kart into an actual go-kart track. It took some servomotors, remotely-controlled steering columns, and an RFID system so that the karts could communicate with one
Your favorite gaming comment troll, explained.
Recently, I had someone ask me about comments on Kill Screen. Specifically, he wanted to know why we had them at all since, as he astutely noticed, no one reads comments and nothing good seems to happen there. Slate goes as far as to sequester commenters entirely in a hotbox they call “The Fray.” We
We wrote a vision statement to explain what we want to be.
Last fall, we packed up my girlfriend’s car and drove to two-story farmhouse in Athens, New York for a staff retreat. I had never done one of these before, but we felt like it was a good time to regroup and reflect on what we had done….and where we wanted to be. One thing we did was work on a missio
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