I’m sitting at a cramped little table at the Las Vegas Resort & Casino surrounded by Bandai Namco’s Katsuhiro Harada, Daisuke Murano, and Michael Murray. We’re smack-dab in the middle of the casino floor discussing fighting game development. Across from us, several rows of slot machines come alive with bright lights and electronic jingles for […]
Earlier this week, we learned that Vale said that after this incident, Yogacast’s Brindley lost faith in Vale’s ability to manage the budget, and required that the money that hadn’t been spent already be transferred to Yogcast. “In the end we negotiated that $150,000 would be transferred to the Yogscast with the understanding that they […]
The Destiny beta will start a limited time event today that adds two new maps to the game, developer Bungie has announced in its most recent weekly update. If you’ve played the Destiny alpha and are currently playing the beta, you’ve probably noticed that it’s missing the Rusted Lands map for the game’s competitive multiplayer […]
Roberts at GDC 2012 Roberts’ success inspired David Braben, creator of the competing space-sim series Elite, to open his own campaign for Elite 4, aka Elite: Dangerous, in November, 2012. That campaign also continues, but with just over 5 million dollars in pledges, Braben and company are far behind Cloud Imperium and Star Citizen. Star […]
Sometimes getting the best bang for your buck with Image Credit: flicker.com/trishamanasan Before you begin overclocking, it’s good to know some of the basic principles behind the process, beginning with how a CPU’s speed is calculated. While the overall speed of a CPU is based on a number of factors, one of the most important […]
Ashley Johnson, the voice of The Last of Us’ Ellie, has criticized Ubisoft over the company’s recent statements about the lack of playable female characters in Assassin’s Creed Unity. “I was like, ‘Give me a f***ing break! It’s 2014! How many video games do you have to make to realise maybe have an option to […]
The live action show component of the Xbox One-exclusive game Quantum Break is still on track despite Microsoft’s recent announcement that it’s shutting down Xbox Entertainment Studios, the division responsible for original Xbox programming. Developer Remedy, which previously created Max Payne and Alan Wake, told Polygon in a statement that both the game and show […]
Earlier this week, SteamDB published an open letter to Valve from various members of Steam’s developer community concerned with some of the company’s security practices. Their primary concern is that unlike other big companies like Facebook and Google, which offer hundreds and even thousands of dollars in rewards to security researchers who discover exploits, Valve […]
Horror game The Evil Within has moved its release date once again, but if you’re eager to play it the change is in your favor this time. Previously set to launch on October 21, its new release date is October 14, according to the game’s official Twitter account. The Evil Within was originally scheduled to […]
Whenever I try to explain Lethal League can be played with up to four players either in free-for-all or teams of two. The matches I played all started out easily enough: one player swats the ball, the ball lazily bounces around the screen, and then the other player knocks it back. Things quickly escalate from […]
