Canceled Witcher game details emerge in Polish documentary
CD Projekt Red is best known for making The Witcher fantasy role-playing adventures, but it was not the first studio to attempt to conjure...
Genvid raises $2.5 million and launches interactive livestreaming platform
Genvid Technologies has raised $2.5 million in additional funding, and it has broadly released its technology for interactive streaming of esports broadcasts. The technology is...
Next Nintendo Direct is focusing on Mario Odyssey, upcoming Switch and 3DS games
Nintendo announced today that it’s going to broadcast another one of its Direct video streams on September 13 at 3 p.m. Pacific. It will...
Mobile ad tech firm Glispa acquires playable ads startup JustAd
Mobile ad tech firm Glispa has acquired JustAd, a maker of playable ads, for an undisclosed price. Glispa also revealed that it has a...
Firewatch dev plans DMCA takedowns of PewDiePie’s videos over use of N-word
Felix “PewDiePie” Kjellberg used the N-word on a recent YouTube livestream, and that has some people upset with him — including Firewatch co-creator Sean...
A guide to systems-based game development
In my senior year at the University of Michigan, one of my roommates and I had a nightly tradition: playing NCAA Football 2005 (it was 2007)....
The terse poetry of Alexis Kennedy’s Cultist Simulator card game
Most of Alexis Kennedy’s games gaze into the crystal ball of madness, and Cultist Simulator is no different. He’s best known as the founder of...
EK Theater is what happens when you mix video games and Shakespeare
Eddie Kim has found a way to combine World of Warcraft and Shakespeare with his theater group, EK Theater. He’s a teacher with a background in...
Watch our PUBG Family Dinner VI: Battle for the Bird tourney
We’re sharpening our guns and fidgeting with our machete triggers because it’s time for another PUBG Family Dinner. Once again, we’re hosting a little...
Valve removes god-fighting game from Steam in Malaysia after countrywide ban
Malaysia temporarily banned Steam across its territory today allegedly in response to one game that violates its religious-and-racial-unity laws. That ban has ended, but...