The Guardian (blog)
... grabbing players from the first moment to the fade out, despite the lack of dialogue and the expressionistic design. Play this game now because in years to come people may point back and say that's where video game story telling changed forever.
The Guardian (blog)
Super Hexagon, From Terry Cavanagh
New York Times
Developer: Terry Cavanagh. For iOS (iPhone, iPad, iPod Touch); not rated. Super Hexagon is a bull ride of a video game, an endeavor in which success means surviving even a scant five seconds. A player may last a full 45 or longer, but only after days ...
Madden NFL 13, From Electronic Arts
New York Times
Because EA Sports has an exclusive license with the National Football League, its Madden franchise may be subjected to more nitpicking and ax-grinding than any other video game. But it's also true that this series entered 2012 having failed to deliver ...
Slender: The Eight Pages
New York Times
That's doubly true in horror games. It's what we don't see that truly frightens us. Slender: The Eight Pages is the most recent evidence. This free computer game is simple, even crude, and yet it serves up bracing thrills. Armed with only a flashlight ...
Transformers: Fall of Cybertron, From Activison
New York Times
Building upon the solid but somewhat stale third-person shooting of the first game, Fall of Cybertron uses new characters, favorites of fans of the toys, to inject fresh elements. The mighty metal T-Rex, Grimlock, lays into his foes with sword and ...
Horn, From Zynga
New York Times
Epic's Unreal Engine 3 has powered several visually stunning mobile games, but none with as much depth and personality as Horn, from Phosphor Games Studio. Horn is an action role-playing gameabout a young blacksmith apprentice who finds himself ...
NZ video games industry grows
National Business Review
The local industry has nearly doubled in the last two years and employed 380 full-time equivalentgame developers as of 31 March 2012, according to a survey of NZ Game DevelopersAssociation members. 39% of those people are artists, 39% are ... Game ...
Game Developers Arrested for "Spying"
Kotaku
They were caught with photos and video of a military installation and arrested in the Greek island of Lemnos and are claiming to be video game developers for Bohemia Interactive. Reports state that Greek authorities charged the two with espionage ...
NYGM: It's Game Design, It's Music, It's Story – It's Complicated
NY Convergence
“There are a lot of game developers who are looking to incorporate music into their games and they need to secure the licensing rights,” said Brad Hargreaves, founder of general assembly and NYGaming Meetup. He brought together a panel of people who ...
Video: What to do when your game suffers an inevitable PR crisis
Gamasutra
No matter who you are or how talented your team is, every game developer eventually has to deal with a public relations crisis. You might upset your fan base or say something you didn't mean, but regardless of the issue, a good developer needs to be ...
Dubai becoming a major hub for online and video games industry in the middle ...
AME Info
Experts in the Game industry in the Middle East and game developers had revealed lately that the ME online gamers community are now considered the fastest growing among others globally and that the industry is witnessing a phenomenal growth. ... The...
AME Info
Dishonored's Second Video Documentary Episode Shows the Immersion of the ...
Gameranx
In this second video in Arkane's developer documentary for Dishonored titled "Immersion," The studio talks about the creative process that into building the game'scharacters and world. From art concepts to in-game assets, we get to see how the world ...
Gameranx
Australian game industry looks for inspiration GCAP 2012
iTWire
That is where conferences such as GCAP can help unite video-game development studios with a regional outlook on their approach to success. They can be competing against ... This year we've upped the ante quite a bit and we've built an event designed to ...
A set guideline for beginning video game programmers!
GameDev.net
A set guideline for beginning video game programmers! Started by bloisch4, Sep 10 2012 01:57 PM... I have recently been highly interested in game development, especially the programming side of things. I have been learning C++ for the last 3 months or ...
Report Highlights 'Creative Destruction' in Video Game Industry
IT News Online
Trends like digital downloading and mobile gaming are rapidly reshaping the marketplace—so much so that some observers now liken brick-and-mortar video game stores to … well, the walking dead.... But the report also highlights other factors that ...
Steam brings its games to the living room with Big Picture
NDTV
The American video game developer plans to take Steam (Valve's digital video game distribution service) beyond the PC to players' living rooms in the form of Big Picture. Kotaku got all the action of the beta version of Steam's Big Picture ahead of its...
NDTV
Call of Duty: Black Ops 2 Multiplayer Walkthrough With Treyarch's Game Design ...
Geeky gadgets
In the latest video trailer to be released for the upcoming first-person-shooter title Call of Duty: Black Ops 2. Treyarch game design director David Vonderhaar, walks you through the multiplayer side of Call of Duty: Black Ops 2. Watch the video after ...
Geeky gadgets
Watch These German Developers Smash a Car To Promote a Game That Has ...
Complex.com (blog)
In fact, it's known as a "trash planet," and the press release sent out today with the video calls thegame a "junk-fueled adventure." So we guess it's kind of related. And that might prove even more true for the in-development sequel, Chaos on Deponia.
Transformers: Fall of Cybertron review
Telegraph.co.uk
By Tom Hoggins, Video Games Editor. 11:50PM BST 10 ... So fans will unquestionably get the most out of the game, but strip away the layer of familiarity and there's still a good-natured, punchy script underpinning some excellent action. Thegame picks ...
Telegraph.co.uk
Sound Shapes review
Telegraph.co.uk
Musicians such as Beck and deadMau5 provide original tracks, and the game'sstructure allows each song to have its own narrative, building bridges, crescendos and dropping into judged silence without ever limiting your own interaction. The platforming...
Telegraph.co.uk
With Kirby, Nintendo invites everyone to the game
NBCNews.com
When parents ask me to recommend a good video game to start playing with their children, I send them to Nintendo's Kirby games straight away. I do this not only because I know the games will be fun for the youngest players, but because I know that the ...
Kickstarter bankrolls new video games
TheChronicleHerald.ca
As development budgets for games have risen, games-industry programmer Aubrey Hesselgren says, big publishers such as Electronic Arts and Activision have become risk-averse. Like Hollywood studios before them, they have taken the safe ... As word ...
'Guild Wars 2' Celebrates Going Back on Sale with Live-Action Video
Game Rant
Unfortunately, there were consequences to the fans' exuberant response. ArenaNet opened the Guild Wars 2 servers three days in advance for those that had pre-purchased the game, and other than relatively minor downtime delays and bugs, the launch ...
AMD Invests in CiiNOW to Usher in Next Era of Cloud-Based Gaming
Businessweek
SUNNYVALE, CA--(Marketwire - September 11, 2012) - AMD (NYSE: AMD) today announced an investment in CiiNOW, a provider of cloud gaming technology that enables game publishers, retailers and carriers to tap into the growing video game market expected to ...
Husband & Wife Game Developers Aim To Kickstart GHOST Chronicles
Gamasutra
Husband & Wife Game Developers Aim To Kickstart G.H.O.S.T. Chronicles ... As with most videogames, funding is always an issue, and Aisle 5 Games feels that Kickstarter could provide extra support by reaching out to internet savvy casual gamers.
Dust: An Elysian Tail review
Telegraph.co.uk
It's sugar coating on a sharper, spikier game than you might expect. You are Dust, a soldier that awakes in a glade near the village of Aurora without memory of who he is or why's he's there. Dust is approached by Fidget, the hyperactive guardian of a ...
Telegraph.co.uk
Forza Horizon behind-the-scenes video discusses night racing, traffic, and ...
EL33TONLINE
The first episode of a behind-the-scenes video series for Forza Horizon has been released and proves just as fascinating as you might expect. According to the developers the game is “a celebration of car culture” and will include a variety of ...
Six Ways DmC Will Revolutionise Devil May Cry
GamingBolt (blog)
Admittedly it's doing this by merely bringing back features we loved in the previous Devil May Cry games, but there's plenty of new and innovative additions and alterations to get excited about as well. Here's six of the upcoming changes that could ...
GamingBolt (blog)
Farewell to the Wii, A Great Gaming System After All
Kotaku
The Wii was the first video game console that anyone plugged into my parent's TV since the Odyssey 2, the console my brother and I played in the Totilo household in the early 80s. We would plug an NES and then a SNES in a different room, where my my ...
'Tryst' gameplay video brings out lasers
The Verge
Tryst is an upcoming real-time strategy game, and its developers, Blue Giant Interactive, released gameplay footage today in advance of its impending release. In Tryst, humans are fighting with an insect-like alien race, the Zali, over control of a ...
Media Design School and the Giants of Gaming hit Te Papa Museum
Virtual-Strategy Magazine (press release)
Game Masters celebrates the world's most influential video game design from the late 1970s right through to today. Auckland, New Zealand (PRWEB) ... I hope this exhibition will inspire the next generation of game developers.” Media Design School ...
Terraria building to an early 2013 XBLA and PSN release
Gaming Age
International publisher of video games, 505 Games, has today announced it will be bringing the independent block-building blockbuster Terraria to Xbox LIVE Arcade for the Xbox 360 video game and entertainment system from Microsoft and PlayStation...
Gaming Age
'Black Ops 2' developer walkthrough details new weapons, class creation changes
The Verge
Narrated by game design director David Vonderhaar, the video takes the form of developercommentary, stopping to explain the game's new features. Highlights include the revamped class creation system, new weapons like the "shock charge," which stuns ...
The Down Goes Brown NHL 13 review
National Post
Today marks the official release of NHL 13, the latest version in the much beloved series of hockey video games from EA Sports. Fans around the world are busy downloading the game or lining up at stores in anticipation of seeing what thedevelopers ...
National Post
Halloween Horror Nights: A Sneak Peek at the Silent Hill Maze
ShockTillYouDrop.com
The maze will combine elements from both the existing video games and the films, including the upcoming Silent Hill: Revelations 3D. Game developer Konami has been involved in the maze's creation on an advisory level. Red Pyramid, the Missionary, ...
To Survive Microsoft's Apathy, Xbox Indie Developers Band Together
Wired (blog)
In City Tuesday , a puzzle platformer game to be released as part of the Indie Games Uprising promotion, you play a man trying to prevent a terrorist attack by reliving the same five minutes over and over. Image courtesy Return to Adventure Mountain ...
The American Dental Association® and PopCap Games Announce Campaign ...
EON: Enhanced Online News (press release)
Dentists & Video Game Developer Launch “Stop Zombie Mouth,” Raising Awareness for Oral Health Through Fun Program Featuring Hit Video Game Plants vs. Zombies™. September 10, 2012 09:03 AM Eastern Daylight Time. SEATTLE--(BUSINESS ...
EON: Enhanced Online News (press release)
Video: NBA 2K13 Developer Insight #4 – MyCAREER
Dime Magazine
... can even choose which endorsement company you want to sign with (everything looks super deep and versatile). This new video won't get you as hyped as yesterday's epic joint will, but it's still interesting to check out. Is this your favorite mode ...
Game Art Outsourcing
By b.kunjadiya
Video game development involves a long procedure and may take several years. Video game development can take a shorter time when it is done by multiple developers. This is the reason as to why video game developers approach game ...
Success (The Japanese Video Game Developer) Celebrates 35 ...
Can you believe Operation Darkness developer Success Corporation is 35 years old? They developed Cotton for the Sega Genesis and Battle Hunter, which ...
Video Game Developers - Video Game Insurance | darkcade.com ...
One of the hugely overlooked issues with video game development is Insurance Something from left field today rather than the usual video game reviews or ...
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News "Video game music is not bleeps and bloops anymore". 7 years ... gonintendo.com Video Games | Avatar | Crafting A Universe Developer DiaryXBox 360 ...
Disability video gaming guidelines website launched | Able Here ...
A detailed set of guidelines has been published online to help video-games developers cater for users with accessibility issues. The website, which has the ...
Game Developers Choice Online Awards honor Raph Koster, World of
Koster's professional credits span nearly every facet of game development, including writing, art, soundtrack music, programming and design. Raph Koster is ...
Gamasutra
Riccardo Zacconi, CEO of King.com, never expected to be in the position he's in right now -- head of the number two developer on Facebook. Not that long ago, conventional wisdom suggested it would be impossible for a new developer to break into the top ...
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News "Video game music is not bleeps and bloops anymore". 7 years ... gonintendo.com Video Games | Avatar | Crafting A Universe Developer DiaryXBox 360 ...
Disability video gaming guidelines website launched | Able Here ...
A detailed set of guidelines has been published online to help video-games developers cater for users with accessibility issues. The website, which has the ...
Game Developers Choice Online Awards honor Raph Koster, World of
Koster's professional credits span nearly every facet of game development, including writing, art, soundtrack music, programming and design. Raph Koster is ...
Gamasutra
Riccardo Zacconi, CEO of King.com, never expected to be in the position he's in right now -- head of the number two developer on Facebook. Not that long ago, conventional wisdom suggested it would be impossible for a new developer to break into the top ...
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