Techdirt (blog)
But one bit that might be interesting to folks around here: this game, which nearly everyone agrees launched the entire video game industry (now pushing $80 billion per year), was based on infringement. Actually, it looks ... Other developers, big and ...
Wii U review
Telegraph.co.uk
It was the Wii that, for many, catapulted video games to the heart of the living room. Its motion-control revolution appealing to those who had never played a video gamebefore with an easy to understand concept: swing the remote, and your character on ...
Telegraph.co.uk
What will a video games industry run by Apple look like?
Australian Macworld (blog)
“Upon approval of the game concept and successful evaluation of the developer, thegame creators work closely with the Arcade team on everything from game design and testing to ratings, localisation and certification. Notice the casual air that Canessa...
Australian Macworld (blog)
Video Games Embrace the Permanence of Death
Patheos (blog)
However, if you know that your character can be reborn after even the nastiest and most gruesome of demises — if there's no sense of danger or loss — what does that do to a video game's potential for drama, storytelling, and emotional effect ...
LA Game Space Aims to Explore the True Potential of Games
G4 TV (blog)
It's a video game space," he explained. "I think mainstream studios and developerswill play just as big a role as the indie developers." And though he doesn't want it to turn into yet another glorified launch party venue, he said that triple-A ...
G4 TV (blog)
LA Game Space Helps Video Games Grow Up
Forbes
More than helping fledgling developers get into the industry it wants to create a hot bed of creativity that redefines what a video game is — something more cultural, engaging, socially aware, something more grown up maybe? This kind of rhetoric was ...
Guillermo Del Toro's Horror Video Game 'inSane' May Have Found A New ...
Geeks of Doom
Unlike his massive R-rated H.P. Lovecraft project, At the Mountains of Madness, which still seeks a new home as he finishes work on his upcoming blockbuster, Pacific Rim, it appears that the video game, titled inSane, may already have a new home ...
Geeks of Doom
Skrillex releasing video game
10News
Hitmaker SKRILLEX is set to launch his own video game. The electronic dance music superstar teamed up with developer Jason Oda to create Skrillex Quest, which is set to the 24 year old's music and requires players to fight off a technology virus or ...
10News
Meet Loot Crate, a New Hollywood Startup That Sends You Video Game Swag
LA Weekly (blog)
Meet Loot Crate, a Hollywood-based startup that's a subscription service for boxes of tech and video game-themed stuff. ... L.A. has an amazing collection of advisors, entrepreneurs [and] developers, [who are] important to our specific marketing. As ...
LA Weekly (blog)
Battlefront III Died Just Inches From the Finish Line
Escapist Magazine
But a recent interview by gamesTM with Steve Ellis, co-founder of the game's developer Free Radical Design, gives the story of Battlefront III an even more tragic twist. Along with revealing a few... Earlier this year a lengthy gameplay video was ...
Norman Reedus & Michael Rooker Confirmed for The Walking Dead Video Game
ComingSoon.net
Activision and developer Terminal Reality announced today that actors Norman Reedus and Michael Rooker will reprise their roles as Daryl and Merle Dixon for the upcoming game The Walking Dead: Survival Instinct. In the game, players assume the role of ...
Video game sequels must stay innovative while maintaining signature styles
SRU The Online Rocket
This brings me to my first video game series, one of the many that are changing the landscape of digital entertainment: Call of Duty. The Call of Duty series has been around since 2003, and back then the game didn't bring nearly as much ... With San ...
GameFly enters the world of mobile game publishing with Writer Rumble
tuaw.com
GameFly is a company that works like Netflix for video games -- you give them a subscription fee every month, and in return, they send you out a video game at a time, which you can send back when you're done to get another. It's a very popular service ...
UK games industry "in trouble" if it can't recruit more women, says trade body
The Guardian (blog)
"If we are to satisfy the growing diversity of the UK population who play games, then we need diverse creators with different stories to tell, different perspectives to bring to creative products to appeal to a diverse game playing audience". ... "Our ...
Why Video Games Want to Look Like Movies—Not Real Life
The Atlantic
Working on their latest, Crysis 3, they incorporate lens flares -- a visual phenomenon we only experience in movies and photos -- and bring movement to every detail of the world in the game. "The whole thing needs to feel very alive," one developer ...
The Atlantic
Video game firms iEntertainment, Great Outdoors merge
WRAL Tech Wire
Cary, N.C. — Cary-based iEntertainment, a developer of video games such as WarBirds and other combat simulation titles, is merging with Great Outdoors, LLC. As part of the merger ... He also has been involved in development of numerous outdoors games.
Indie Game Legends Will Judge Two-Day Game Creations in the 2012 Indie ...
Complex.com (blog)
It can take years for a team of hundreds to create a single video game—or it can take two days for a small indie team to do the same. It's all about context, right? In the 2012 Indie Speed Run, the context is that teams of one to four developers will ...
Complex.com (blog)
3 Lessons In Game Design, From A Cutting-Edge Developer
Co.Design
You probably haven't heard of the Vienna-based indie game studio Broken Rules. But with just five full-time staff (and three part-timers), it's managed to become one of a handful of exclusive developers to have a launch title on Nintendo's Wii U. A ...
Co.Design
A Gambling Parlor on Your Smartphone
Businessweek
With interest in social games showing signs of waning—the number of video game players in the U.S. declined by 5 percent in the last year, according to researcher NPD Group—Zynga and other developers don't want to wait. Betable, funded by ... Paul ...
The Epic Perfection of Halo 4 [REVIEW]
Men's Fitness
When the game veers away from being a first-person shooter—as it does when you hop into a vehicle like a battle mech—it's a seamless transition., and best of all, none of these missions feel tacked on, even a potentially risky foray into flight ...
Museum of Modern Art Adding Video Game Collection in 2013
Game Rant
In addition to deciding which games to display, the Museum also had the difficult task of figuring how best to encapsulate the experience of each video game either through interactivity, a brief demo, or a guided tour (created by the developer). Games ...
Game Rant
Charles Huang: Big-Screen Gaming From a Phone
Businessweek
As the PlayStation (SNE), Wii, and Xbox (MSFT) lose market share to smartphones and tablets,video game developers face problems, too. Playing ... Although that flopped, too, they kept the name and moved into game-hardware development. The Huang ...
Blizzard Developer Talks StarCraft II and eSports
PCWorld
The game publisher and developer brought the best StarCraft II gamers in the world together to award a true global champion. That honor went to PartinG. Blizzard also used the event to give attendees a look at the much-anticipated expansion, Heart of ...
Humble THQ Bundle released amid the companies financial troubles
Examiner.com
The Humble THQ Bundle still follows the normal Humble Bundle outline: you can give money to thedeveloper, charities, the Humble Bundle staff, or a mixture of the three. The games themselves are well worth a few dollars, but they can all be had (save ...
Red Storm Sponsors Ghost Recon: Future Soldier Tournament
MPOGD.com
... Creative Director for the Carolina Games Summit. Tom Clancy's Ghost Recon: Future Soldier is a third-person video game published by Ubisoft and jointly developed by Ubisoft Paris, Red Storm Entertainment, and Ubisoft Bucharest. ... "Red Storm is ...
Jenn Savedge: Cheesy video game teaches young girls how to be socialites
Luray Page Free Press
A new video game called Upper East Side Makeover wants to teach your little girls how to be backstabbing socialites. According to the video game website, Upper East Side Makeover is aimed at girls ages 8-15 who must complete tasks including exfoliation ...
Luray Page Free Press
Exclusive DLC will kill your franchise, learn from Call of Duty Black Ops 2
Gaming Examiner
Exclusive titles can sometimes be a hot-topic during video-game discussions. I personally understand the reasoning and the benefits that exclusive titles can bring ... Sony did however, and the deal brought three amazingly creative titles to ...
Game developer Zynga sees shares tumble 13 PER CENT after ...
Game developer Zynga sees shares tumble 13 PER CENT after exclusive deal ..... Britney Spears steals the show in sultry new dance video for will.i.am's new ...
Deadpool Bugle: Interview with Deadpool Video Game Developer ...Interview with Deadpool Video Game Developer Terry Spier. Posted at: ...TV has posted a ...
HeroEngine 2 Empowers Indie Game Developers' To Focus on ...
HeroEngine 2 Empowers Indie Game Developers' To Focus on Creativity and Game Design Idea Fabrik Unveils New Cutting-edge Features to its Popular ...
MoMA Video Game Collection Sees New York Museum Of Modern Art Embrace ...
Huffington Post
Designed in a pixel art style, the creator spent four years working on this 2D-game, conceived in three dimensions. Using the language of early video game styles, "Rez" is spare, to the point and noted for the music that's sparked when a player ...
10 Unintentionally Creepy Video Game Characters
WhatCulture!
When a video game is being made, design is crucial, to ensure that on a basic aesthetic level, agame is going to appeal to the target audience and seem appropriate. For various reasons, the following characters just didn't suit their purposes; the ...
2013 Is 10th Aniversery of NASCARs Greatest Video Game!
Beyond the Flag
NR2003 was released by Papyrus Design Group and is a racing game released for the PC only. What makes the game so great are nurmurous things. For startrers the games physics are absalutly stunning. When a car flips it barrell rolls EXACTLY like race ...
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