The IndieBeat: How Nyamakop’s founders survived making their first game
In their last year at Johannesburg’s University of Witwatersrand‘s game design program, Cukia “Sugar” Kimani and Ben Myres began working on their thesis project. Kimani...
Apple kills app affiliate commissions, imperiling small publishers
Effective October 1, Apple will stop paying publishers affiliate commissions for both apps and in-app purchases from its App Stores, a move that independent app reviewers believe will kill their sites.
Surface Go review: Wonderful weight, superb software, poor performance
Should you buy a Microsoft Surface Go for $399? Well, it will really cost you $500, and you should expect some tradeoffs.
How Landfall juggles jokes, physics experiments, and commercial games
Landfall was working on Totally Accurate Battle Simulator, a physics-based tactics sim, when the studio answered the call of April Fools. It wasn’t the first time, and in this case, the concept was a goofy parody of PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds, a three-week diversion from their main game project.
SuperSpeedBlazer claims to boot Windows on a Mac in 10 seconds flat
A new device called SuperSpeedBlazer promises to boot a Mac into Windows in only 10 seconds -- with a few caveats.
LittleBits’ Avengers Hero Inventor Kit turns kids into superhero programmers
LittleBits' Avengers Hero Inventor Kit puts kids in the shoes of their favorite superhero -- and teaches them how to code, too.
Improbable gets $50 million from China’s NetEase to engineer giant game worlds
British game infrastructure company Improbable keeps doing the improbable. Today, the company says it has raised an additional $50 million in funding from Chinese...
Pixel Game Maker MV brings its retro-looking dev tools to early access
Many indie devs have used versions of RPG Maker software to create their low-budget games, like critically acclaimed story-driven titles like Freebird Games’ To...
LGBTQ game history is fleeting — that’s why curation is necessary
In December, the world’s first exhibit of lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer (LGBTQ) digital games history will open at the Schwules Museum in...
The IndieBeat: ArenaNet’s firings heighten concerns about company policies and harassment
It’s been a week since ArenaNet fired Guild Wars 2 narrative designer Jessica Price and writer Peter Fries without any warning, and the statements...