The Guardian (blog)
Less dramatic have been the numerous instances of veteran video game designers moving on to smaller projects this year. Peter Molyneux left Lionhead to start up 22cans, ... But the failure of Move and the ennui now surrounding Kinect show that the...
The Guardian (blog)
Video Game Review: 'Marvel vs. Capcom: Origins' is an Amusing Ret-Con
HollywoodChicago.com
It collects the first two chapters in the Marvel Fighting Game Franchise; “Marvel Super Heroes” and “Marvel Vs. Capcom” into one ready-to-play collection. Bothgames were developed by Capcom, developers of the legendary “Street Fighter” series, as well ...
HollywoodChicago.com
XCOM: Enemy Unknown's lead designer struggles to sell his own game (video)
VentureBeat
Solomon is very funny in the video. He goofs with the customers while telling them about his game's alien enemies and huge choices. But no one seems very receptive to what he is selling. By the end, it isn't clear if he sold any copies of his ...
VentureBeat
Resident Evil 6 – review
The Guardian (blog)
Outside of comic books, no medium loves a recurring character quite so much asvideo games. The goal for any console developer these days isn't to make one greatgame – it's to construct the foundations of a franchise, a starting point for sequels and...
The Guardian (blog)
In da[velopment] club
Minnesota Daily
Thirty-odd members of the Video Game Development Club met at Keller Hall on Tuesday night, as they do every week, to talk video games. They were kicking off a semester-long game development project, starting with a raise-of-hands vote on several ideas ...
Forza Horizon Developer Explains Idea Behind Game World [Video]
autoevolution
The release of Forza Horizon is less than two weeks away, and to maintain interest strong, thedeveloper has shown yet another behind the scenes video, this time detailing the construction and functionality of the game world. The developers say that ...
Essential Gaming: Top Five Games for October 2012
Video Game Writers
With so many October 2012 video game releases, narrowing down the list to only five for the sake of this Essential Gaming piece proved difficult, meaning there are definite omissions from this list. While games like Forza Horizon, James Bond 007 ...
Video Game Writers
Gamemaker Studio Launched for Steam Software Store
GamingBolt (blog)
YoYo Games and Valve Software are bringing the GameMaker: Studio family to Steam with the launch of the Steam Software Store. GameMaker: Studio is touted as being a fast and easy to use cross-platform games development environment that allows ...
An Unexplored Opportunity: Video Games as Educational Tools
Technapex
Sure, there are educational apps and core-subject games available to download and play, but what if we had major, triple-A title video game developers focusing on producing high-quality educational games? What if Blizzard hopped on board? What if...
Technapex
'0x10c' gameplay video shows off lighting, physics
The Verge
Minecraft developer Notch is working on a new game, 0x10c, and he recently posted a new work-in-progress gameplay video demonstrating the lighting and physics. We still don't know much about 0x10c other than that it's a space simulation game partly ...
Next Wave of Asian Exports to US May Be Virtual Goods
New York Times
SAN FRANCISCO — A decade ago, a developer from the South Korean game maker Nexon threw a few lines of code together to create an image of a flower to present to his girlfriend, buying himself more video game time as she sat impatiently by his side at ...
IndieCade 2012: Culver City gets its game on
Los Angeles Times
IndieCade, which will take over Culver City this weekend, aims to showcase independent developers who, working alone or in small teams with very limited budgets, happen to be creating some of the most innovative video games available. The event, which ...
Los Angeles Times
Video: How Chinese browser games get players to open their wallets
Gamasutra
At this year's GDC Europe, Reality Squared Games CEO (and ex-gold farmer) Jared Psigoda took a moment to share what he's learned about Chinese free-to-play browser game design. While the design practices in China are quite ... Throughout his ...
Dishonored video lets you play through parts of a mission
Shacknews
... objectives the developer Arkane Studios throws at you during the game. And to illustrate that point, the publisher has released a new interactive "Path to Revenge"video letting you choose your path through a good chunk of one of the game's early ...
Shacknews
'Dead Or Alive 5' Characters Have Bigger Breasts Because Team Ninja Listens ...
Huffington Post
When Japanese video game developers at Team Ninja, maker of the “Dead or Alive” series, were designing "Dead or Alive 5" they asked for customer feedback. What did consumers say they wanted most? Bigger-breasted characters. "We actually got a lot of ...
Dev Cliff Bleszinski departs from Epic Games
News10.net
According to a post on the official Epic Games blog, famed video game developer Cliff Blezinksi (better known as Cliffy B.) has left the company. Blezinski is departing from his post as Epic Games' design director to focus on other endeavors. During ...
News10.net
Old-School Game Creators Want Money To Make Old-School RPG
Kotaku Australia
It is full of amazing testimonials from a who's who of game developers. The best are David Jaffe's ...very, very drunk. So… don't. But enjoy one of the more interesting and star-studded video game Kickstarter listings in a while and give, if you ...
ZombiU developer video delves deeper into mysterious characters, lore inspired ...
Neoseeker
No, turns out there may actually be a pretty deep story to explore in this upcoming Wii U exclusive, and with Ubisoft being Ubisoft, the game manages to work in real world history. The latestdeveloper diary offers us a glimpse of some of the ...
Lapping with F1 2012: Despite bugs, new
AutoWeek
Few things excite Autoweek's racing enthusiasts and video gamers as much as the anticipated annual installment of Codemasters' Formula One series. For F1 2012, the U.K.-based developers added a list of new features, beginning with the young drivers' ...
Black Ops 2: New multi-player 8 minute gameplay video
Examiner.com
During the video, Anthony Gallegos and Bobby Amos Jr. add their commentary and discuss their enthusiasm for the new game. Despite all of the success that the Call of Duty series has enjoyed, it is often criticized for not changing much. During the ...
Examiner.com
Tax deal for shoot-'em-ups (as long as they're 'British')
The Independent
Computer games developers and television drama producers will be offered tax breaks in return for using British characters and backdrops, under proposals drawn up by the Government. The Treasury has approved an extension of Corporation Tax relief to ...
Some Gamers Angered By Obama Ads in Madden
Forbes
The Obama campaign's ads are now live across a number of swing states and running in a number titles from game developer Electronic Arts. The effort reaches causal online gamers, in games such as Scrabble and Tetris, and more intense console gamers ...
Forbes
XCOM: Enemy Unknown's original pitch video revealed
Shacknews
XCOM: Enemy Unknown's release next week marks the return of a franchise in hiding for over a decade. But, how has it changed since its inception? Developer FiraxisGames has released Enemy Unknown's original pitch video--the same video used to get ...
Shacknews
OBJE Seeks Out Gamers' Feedback Before Official Launch
DailyFinance
(BUSINESS WIRE)-- Novalon Games, the gaming developer founded by the joint venture of OBJ Enterprises (OTCBB: OBJE) and Source Street, LLC, unveiled new details about its debut game, "Wayfarers," on its revamped website today. Constructed using the ...
AbleGamers Announces First Acessible Arcade, Confounds Cynicism
Forbes
In an announcement almost scientifically calculated to make the world seem a better place, The AbleGamers Foundation, a nonprofit group dedicated to making video games more accessible to people with disabilities, has announced the opening of its first ...
Forbes
Documentary Review: 'Indie Game: The Movie'
Concordiensis
Indie Game, which acquired the title of 'Best World Cinema Documentary Editing' of 2012 at the Sundance Film Festival, is an anomaly within the universe of our understanding of video games. It offers an explanation of the ... While it is important to ...
Parents, prepare to pay up as Skylanders: Giants sequel nears
Globe and Mail
Nine of the top 10 video games, by sales, in 2011 were sequels, including Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 and Madden NFL 12 . The lone exception? Skylanders: Spyro's Adventure , a curious kids' game from Activision that zapped real-world toys into a ...
Globe and Mail
Minecraft PC 'Pretty Scary' update aiming for end of October release
Examiner.com
That means we are getting even closer to the release of the "Pretty Scary" update and thedeveloper has a target release date for that too. The Pretty ... We suggest that only experienced people install snapshots as it may cause errors with your game ...
Wii U Will Be The First Console To Launch With A CERO Z Game
Siliconera
It's the Japanese "adults only" rating for video games with excessive gore. CERO Z titles are held behind counters and retailers check your ID before selling the game to you. When the CERO Z rating was first added in 2006 it was taboo and some ...
Obama or Romney? Gamers predict winner via slugfest
NBCNews.com
As Barack Obama and Mitt Romney prepare to duke it out on stage Wednesday, virtual avatars of the candidates are quite literally duking it out in a video game geared to motivate voter registration. And that game has declared a winner (at least for the ...
The Best Thing Cliff Bleszinski Ever Did…
Kotaku
In his role as Design Director at Epic Games, all the man sometimes known as Dude Huge really had to do was work on the developer's games. He could ... Instead, he became the face of the development studio he just left, helping articulate the ...
the great graphics debate
VG247
Stace Harman ponders the question of whether fancy graphics can make a game better and why video game sex scenes don't float anyone's boat. The importance of a strong ... Primarily, it is a developer's talent and vision that inform the overall visual ...
Apocalyptic Commentary: Watch a Guided Tour of Ravaged
Gamespy.com
Today IGN posted a developer commentary video with 2 Dawn Games Designer Joe Halper who guides us through the current state of Ravaged's beta as it gears up for its retail release in two weeks. I've been tinkering around with ... The vehicles, however ...
International Game Technology
Stockhouse
IGT has incorporated several AMD products in its new casino slot games including the AMD Radeon™ E6760 GPU. The AMD graphics platforms allow IGT game developers to design integrated displays with HD video and 3D effects while also delivering the ...
Raptr research says engagement between publishers and gamers is the key to ...
The Verge
Community services, such as rewards programs for individual games and platforms, help establish trust between a publisher and its audience. Raptr's study found that video game companies with frequent community interaction attract more gamers and keep ...
PlayStation Mobile Store now available for Sony Xperia, PS Vita, Android phones
The Droid Guy
Tokyo-based major video game company, Sony has just launched its brand new service called PlayStation Mobile – an online store that piles various game titles for selected Android phones, PS Vita and Xperia devices. ... PlayStation Suite, Sony's new PS ...
The Droid Guy
The War Z pre-orders pack early access
Shacknews
Does the world need another zombie game? As much as it needs any other video game, really. Developer Hammerpoint is offering three pre-order packages, starting at $19.50. That'll get a copy of the full game when it's finished, and beta access from ...
Shacknews
20 Best iPhone, iPad, Android and Windows Phone games this week
The Guardian (blog)
Korean publisher Gamevil has ported its Kingdom Royale social war-game from Android to iOS, mixing resource management and kingdom-building with turn-based battles against other players around the world. Humans, elves and orcs provide the cannon fodder ...
The Guardian (blog)
Survarium Developers Talk About Stopping Cheaters
Kotaku Australia
In the video above, you'll get a look at how Survarium is coming along, with info on the first character type in the game that they're now building and a look at the engine that will be powering the experience. Given that Vostok is making a shooter ...
Machines Talking to Each Other on the Sprint Wireless Network
The Herald | HeraldOnline.com
“This type of growth requires communications operators to be on the top of their game. Sprint prides itself ... Along the way, Sprint's Emerging Solutions Group has helped coordinate opportunities for developers and business partners to power their ...
How to Babycastles | Science Gallery
By acarey
Babycastles is an ongoing effort to increase New York City's engagement with independent video game development. They have reinvented the arcade as a public gallery for independent game art and an overall social space for game culture.
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2 NEIT students hope to hit it big with new video game ... doing what they love, and putting theirgame development and simulation programming training to use.
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