Jam City’s Josh Yguado: Games are the center of the entertainment universe
Jam City president Josh Yguado believes that games have become the center of the entertainment universe. His Los Angeles company would know, as it sits...
Exploding Kittens CEO: We need ‘air gapped’ game design
A physical game night, whether it be over games of Monopoly, Go Fish, or Exploding Kittens, provides a connection with others that is more...
Why the television writers’ room has come to game development
Game development is a time-intensive and complicated machine. And studios are always looking for anything to improve the efficiency of that process. That’s why...
Video gaming history is ready for the spotlight
Gaming has long been the new kid on the block when it comes to media. Video games have been around for much less time...
Game companies planning for up to 1TB-per-second bandwidth on ocean cables
It’s not news that esports is a global phenomenon. With its roots in StarCraft and PC bangs in South Korea and shooters and LAN...
Streets of Rage 4 review — A brawl down memory lane
Here’s a nice thought: What if your childhood never ended? What if they just kept making games like they always did? Well, companies have...
Dead Space ideas came from game-design team’s ‘horror competition’
At one point during Issac Clark’s adventure on the USG Ishimura, a giant tentacle grabs him. As the player, you launch a desperate assault...
Skydance Interactive’s Pete Akemann: We’re about to see the ‘second generation’ of VR gameplay
The studios behind Boneworks, Half Life: Alyx, and The Walking Dead: Saints & Sinners all solved the same problem: interactivity in virtual reality. They...
For Dauntless, crossplay launch was a months-long ‘trust-building’ exercise
When Phoenix Labs set out to develop Dauntless back in 2015, it wanted players to be able to play together no matter what platform...
Stack Up’s Stephen Machuga fights veteran suicide in a time of invisible threats
Twenty-two a day: That’s the rate of veteran suicides that Stephen Machuga, founder of gaming charity Stack Up, is fighting against. Machuga talked about...