The Lion’s Song review — the point-and-click adventure that sings through Vienna
I missed Mi’pu’mi Games’ point-and-click adventure The Lion’s Song when it first debuted on PC in 2016 — but I caught up with it...
Grand Theft Auto creator Dave Jones: You never know when you’ve got a hit idea
Since cofounding DMA Design in 1987, Dave Jones has created video games that have become massive franchises, including Lemmings, Grand Theft Auto, Crackdown, and...
Mark Cerny and Amy Hennig: A fireside chat with master game makers
Amy Hennig and Mark Cerny are both 53 years old, and they attended the University of California at Berkeley at the same time. And...
Fallout 4 director Todd Howard: Giving fans what they want without spreading too thin
Todd Howard, director of Bethesda Game Studios, noted in a recent talk at the Gamelab event in Barcelona that The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim...
Latin America’s new video game federation has devs from 11 countries working together
Latin America’s games market is poised to hit $5 billion this year, a thin slice of the hefty $137.9 billion generated worldwide (as market research...
Octopath Traveler hands-on — the march of endless beginnings
I’ve played about eight hours of Octopath Traveler, and I have mixed feelings about Square Enix’s first role-playing game for the Nintendo Switch. It looks...
Angie Smets: How Guerrilla Games made Horizon Zero Dawn in 7 years
Horizon Zero Dawn is an epic game that you can play for scores of hours. When I finished the single-player campaign in 2017, I...
Cat Nigiri found the solution for its Keen puzzler in Asia, not the U.S.
Keen’s turn-based combat combines sliding-tile puzzles and dungeon-crawling, and it features a cutesy cartoon aesthetic. It is developer Cat Nigiri’s latest game, and it’s...
Jason Roberts interview: Creating Gorogoa required awkwardness and chaos
You could say that Gorogoa, an artistic puzzle game mostly created by a single developer over five years, had the perfect outcome because it...
Skyrim director Todd Howard: Why triple-A games are better when you don’t play it safe
Todd Howard is racking up the awards, the latest being the Industry Legend honor at the Gamelab event in Barcelona. And it’s with good reason,...