-Greg Richardson, CEO of Rumble Entertainment, at the Game Monetization Summit. It’s a common argument that doomsaying about the state of the game industry fails to take into account digital games, the total sales of which are pretty much unknown. If casual experiences only represent 10 percent of a
Last month, I travelled to Redmond to visit the offices of Turn 10, the home of the Forza franchise. I’ve never been a big racing games fan (outside of karts, of course), but much like sports games, I’m interested in the design challenges involved in making games like those. With racing games, espec
Sometimes I want pizza and sometimes I want donuts; the brain is a mystery. Thankfully there are some scientists out there who are tired of our animistic scratchings and Freudian guesswork and are actually trying to figure out how the old brain box does its job. Right now some of the very best are f
Today, Russia makes atmospheric and weird games like Metro 2033, still available for free by liking THQ’s page on Facebook. Back in the wine-stain birthmark days, when playing American games was niche-niche, they played an arcade submarine-battle game called Morskoi Boy, which was not made in a game
This video, from Extra Credits, does a terrific job assembling the case against cutscenes: they’re never as good as real movies, they take the player out of the game, they frequently violate the rules of the game, etc. The author’s point that it’s wrong to tell a designer to never use cutscenes is w
There are the kind of games like Call of Duty, which do little to spark serious contemplation about morality or violence. This is the norm. Text games, however, may have a little more insight than your standard AAA fare. Take 2007’s Rendition, whose title would not exist without the war on terror.
–Gail Tilden, Nintendo Power founding editor, in a wide-ranging conversation with Gamasutra. Power put out its last issue this month. It’s important to remember during the endless video game journalism debates that the defining magazine of early American games journalism was pure service and consume
Yes, the Angry Birds movie will probably be a Pixaresque CGI extravaganza, which will benefit from months if not years of pre-release eyerolling by exceeding extremely low expectations and will end up setting some box office records, if minor ones (say, biggest Tuesday opening featuring terrorist bi