X-Wing, Crysis leads team up for new studio — and take advice from Space X
Coming out of stealth, the studio uses Autodesk's new Stingray engine to make a game it'll announce on May 5.
‘Space Battleship Yamato’ invades World of Warships
Wargaming's April Fools' Day joke turns into a special weekend event for players in its closed beta.
Why Nintendo’s mobile gambit will exceed your expectations
By using its success with the old Game & Watch and the money-making Game Boy, DS, and 3DS handhelds, Nintendo could easily find a way to get people to download a $1 app a billion times.
Mobile games are eating console games’ lunch in national TV ads
According to data from iSpot.tv, four of the top five biggest TV ad spenders in the video game category for the first quarter of the year are mobile game companies, collectively spending over $130 million in 2015.
$30 Dogs, bribing Year Beasts, and the tricky balance of Free-to-Play
Years ago, $30 may have seemed like a ridiculous price to pay for a single in-game item. But with the arrival and success of...
The positive influence of LGBT video game characters
With such excellent characters popping up in games that are selling millions of copies (Last of Us has sold over seven million copies at last count, early last year), this helps to portray the LGBT community in a strong and positive light and help more people understand and accept it.
In Pillars of Eternity, you choose, and the world responds
After 44 hours, I still feel like I've got a great deal to learn about Pillars of Eternity's world. Isn't that what role-playing fans want from their games?
How Nintendo can capitalize on in-app advertising without annoying players
If Nintendo can bring the same level of innovation to its game monetization strategy as it does its gameplay experience, this deal could create a new template for how mobile games and advertising can work together going forward.
How Pillars of Eternity’s Death Godlike sees through that scab-like stuff over their eyes
Obsidian crafted its own culture and lore for its Kickstarter-darling role-playing game, and this included bringing different approaches to the world's races and magic.
Pillars of Eternity’s ‘ablative armor’ sounds more like ‘Star Trek’ than ‘Dungeons & Dragons’
Obsidian Entertainment is known for working on "D&D" games like Neverwinter Nights 2. But the company's Kickstarter darling uses systems all its own.