American McGee tests the waters for third Alice game
American McGee is best known for his American McGee’s Alice video game, a nightmare version of Alice in Wonderland published in 2000. And now...
Why Stardock wanted to show up early to the Vulkan graphics API party
Stardock updated its Ashes of the Singularity strategy game with support for the Vulkan graphics-rendering API in August, and that introduced some serious performance...
Royal Blood: How Gamevil is betting big on a mobile MMO
Few projects are as ambitious as Royal Blood, a massively multiplayer online fantasy role-playing game for smartphones and tablets. Gamevil plans to release the...
GameMaker Studio creators look back at 17 years of development
Making games is easier than ever — even if it’s still difficult to make good games. One of the tools that tries to enable...
Destiny 2’s open-world design may finally plug the endgame gap
“Endgame” is typically a design element that we associate with massively multiplayer online role-playing games like Guild Wars 2, Star Wars: The Old Republic,...
Rocket League Grand Finals gives a peek at one of esports growing scenes
Rocket League was the setting for a civil war of sorts last weekend. Players from NRG met across the digital car-soccer field as DapG...
Why the Canadian government is OK with picking winners and losers among game startups
Della Rocca: But also, that’s not a specifically Canadian phenomenon. Gibson: No, it’s not. Della Rocca: From a Canadian perspective, I think the interesting...
The Good Life sees Deadly Premonition creator herding cats and raising bucks
Hidetaka Suehiro, aka the artist known as Swery, is back and ready to get weird. Today at PAX West, he let the cat out...
GamesBeat Boss interview: China’s Leyou moves from chicken meat to triple-A game publishing
GamesBeat: Would you agree that Asian players are OK with pay-to-win, and Western players are not? Xu: I don’t know if I could make...
Game Boss interview: Why the Philadelphia 76ers dove into esports with Team Dignitas
GamesBeat: It seems like there’s an interesting question around which games are going to take off as esports. Call of Duty is such a...