GamesBeat: Bill Roper on bringing computationally ridiculous games to life
Our latest speaker for GamesBeat Summit 2018 event is Bill Roper, CCO at Improbable. He’ll be talking about how the cloud is offering developers the opportunity...
Metro Exodus looks astounding with ray-tracing light tech
Developers can make postapocalyptic games beautiful, if the upcoming PC and console shooter Metro Exodus is anything to go by. At the Game Developers...
Making NBA Jam — winning over the NBA, scouring magazines, and a secret tank game
NBA Jam is one of the most memorable sports games ever made. Midway created a ’90s icon when NBA Jam hit arcades in 1993,...
Here’s what Zone of the Enders: The 2nd Runner MARS looks like in 4K
Konami is still releasing video games, and it is going to keep that trend up at least through September when it launches the updated...
The Messenger is a Ninja Gaiden homage that is more than it appears
Shovel Knight is one of my favorite indie games. It manages to capture the magic of 8-bit classics like Mega Man and Castlevania with...
PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds introduces Events with 8-player squads
PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds continues to grow and change, and this week its designers are testing a feature that enables you to experience the last-player-standing shooter...
Jack Tretton’s post-Sony career has changed his view of game platforms
The fund we created, Ocean IQ Games, that invested in Blue Isle Studios, has worked out really well. We have a piece of their...
Ubisoft announces new studios in Mumbai and Odesa
In what’s beginning to become a tradition, Ubisoft is using the Game Developers Conference in San Francisco to announce more studios are joining its...
The Curse of Monkey Island is easy to buy again thanks to GOG
The Curse of Monkey Island is a beautiful, hand-drawn point-and-click adventure game from LucasArt’s golden age. It’s also been nearly impossible to buy, as...
A Way Out review — a jailbreak that doesn’t f*** the Oscars … but comes close
I’ve finished playing the new two-player co-op game A Way Out from Electronic Arts and development studio Hazelight. Josef Fares, the writer director of the game, comically...