Despite big-budget distractions like EA’s Battlefield 4 reveal, the story of the 2013 Game Developers Conference was really about indie games and experimental game design: a realm Minecraft creator Markus “Notch” Persson is intimately…
The developer who crafted the creepy puzzles for the 2010 platformer Limbo is close to releasing 140, a side-scrolling rhythm game with constantly changing levels. The landscapes in 140 alter as its overlaid techno soundtrack hits maj…
There was so much cool stuff this year at GDC (Game Developers Conference), we really didn’t get a chance to show it to you all. While the vast majority of discussions and booth were geared to developers, there was the occasional consumer (you and I) focus as well. Take Sandboxr, a new company looking to [...]
For one week each year, thousands of game developers descend on San Francisco to meet and meditate on the future of gaming. This year, new technologies like the Oculus Rift and Ouya took center stage. Here’s the best of the best from …
Epic Games, the maker of highly-regarded franchises like Gears of War and Infinity Blade, is probably equally well-known for its Unreal Engine. While Unreal Engine 3 still looks great, it’s starting to show its age a bit — so Ep…
GDC 2013 is full of big-name Kickstarter projects waiting to launch. Oculus VR has sprinkled presentations throughout the week, while Gamestick is showing off an early version of its portable Android-based console. And the tiny Ouya g…
After moving on from the Halo franchise, studio Bungie announced a new project in February of this year. Called Destiny, it combines first-person shooter mechanics with more MMO-like qualities, asking players to help protect the last …
Now in its 10th and final year, the Game Design Challenge here at GDC is a competition that pits gaming’s most innovative minds against each other to come up with a game based upon a particular theme or concept — and this year d…
We have yet to see many beautifully crafted OUYA games, but Yummy Circus by PUZZL is definitely one of OUYA’s shining launch titles. Demoed for the first time at GDC, we went hands on with the multi-player game, and got some juicy details from company CEO Nilsen Filc. Below, you’ll see Yummy Circus running on [...]
Anita Sarkeesian recently released the first episode of “Tropes vs. Women in Video Games,” a web series critiquing “damsels in distress” and other stereotypes. But its success on Kickstarter and now YouTube has come at a heavy price: …
