Uncharted: Golden Abyss is a flawed flagship for the PlayStation Vita (review)
Uncharted: Golden Abyss is the marquee game for Sony’s all-or-nothing bet in portable gaming, the PlayStation Vita. This handheld device is Sony’s last stand...
Mobile ad startup Kiip hires Zynga’s advertising chief as COO
Kiip is announcing today that it has hired Zynga’s ad boss Manny Anekal as chief operating officer. San Francisco-based Kiip is a fast-growing startup...
Double Fine’s Tim Schafer on Kickstarter success: It can happen again (interview)
Double Fine Production’s Tim Schafer misses point-and-click graphic adventures from the early days of video games. “I miss making them and I miss playing...
Why I hate L.A. Noire’s protagonist, Cole Phelps
Note: Don’t read if you are sensitive to L.A. Noire spoilers, as I mercilessly discuss details of the plot. Cole Phelps is a dick…the...
Reality Fighters: All style, no substance (review)
Reality Fighters is misleading from the start. I’ve yet to meet a Bavarian giant in the English countryside or stumble across a murderous ballerina...
In an alternate reality, video games changed world history
Great games immerse players in fantastical worlds and adventures so extravagant, you actually wish they were real. But what if video game characters crossed over to our reality instead?
Red Dead Redemption studio worked on an “interactive girlfriend project” for Microsoft
Before there was Halo, there was XGirl, apparently. Former Angel Studios Chief Creative Officer Michael Limber lists some interesting design work on his online...
Ridiculous: 300 Space Cores rolling down a mountain in Skyrim (video)
Now that Valve and Bethesda have teamed up to bring Portal 2’s Space Core to The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim, the “arrow to the...
Dear Esther: you’re not a real game at all.
If you’ve not played Dear Esther yet, you really should. But before you do, the most important thing to know is that it’s not a game. You buy it through Steam, install it the same way and load it up to a familiar Half Life menu, then you use the familiar WASD to walk around.
Oops: Counterfeit Pokémon game approved by Apple
You know how app developers are always talking about Apple’s mysterious and allegedly thorough iTunes app approval process? Apparently it can’t be too restrictive...