Report claims developers are abandoning PlayStation Vita for Nintendo 3DS
Japanese newspaper Nikkei is reporting that developers are abandoning PlayStation Vita projects in favor of the Nintendo 3DS. (Nikkei was also the first to break the...
Hulu Plus lands on Nintendo Wii, 3DS support coming soon
Nintendo’s Wii game console gained some significant ground as a streaming video set-top box with the announcement of a new Hulu Plus channel launching...
Valve’s digital distribution kingdom by the numbers (Steam-powered infographic)
VideoGameDesignSchools.org has crafted a slick infographic detailing Valve’s conquest of the digital distribution market. It should come as no surprise that Steam is doing...
NAVGTR announces nominees for 2012 game awards
The National Academy of Video Game Testers and Reviewers (NAVGTR, pronounced "navigator") announced its list of nominees for their 2012 NAVGTR video game awards. Voice actors Tom Sizemore and Tara Platt were on hand to present the nominations.
The organization plans to have a panel of game journalists and other industry folks debate the list and predict the winners during the PAX East festival this April. It will announce the winners shortly afterwards.
And the nominees are...
Thanks to $1.8 million in crowd-funding, Double Fine Adventure is heading to five platforms
Tim Schafer has changed the rules for funding major game projects. Now he is making good on his promise to communicate status updates directly...
Super Stardust Delta: Disable the gimmicks and enjoy the ride (review)
Super Stardust HD saved the PlayStation Network at a time when Sony’s downloadable lineup was severely lacking. The dual-stick shooter gave Xbox Live Arcade’s...
FIFA Soccer will make you love and hate your PS Vita (review)
EA Sports didn’t just drop a year number from the PlayStation Vita version of FIFA Soccer, a title that’s hugely important for the franchise’s...
How one dev used 90% of his Windows Phone code to port a game to Windows 8
We’ve been hearing for some time that Microsoft is aiming to make developing apps across Windows Phone 7 and Windows 8 dead simple, but...
Lumines Electronic Symphony is the most enjoyable epileptic seizure you’ll ever have (review)
Lumines was developed by Q Entertainment, a Japanese game studio founded by Tetsuya Mizuguchi, the mind behind Space Channel 5, Rez, and more recently,...
Competitive RPG Components
Competitive RPGs take a few different forms. The newer variant is Defense of the Ancients, which is characterized by picking from a pool of characters and leveling it up over the course of a single round.