Photographs demo shows off clever puzzles and a tragic story
EightyEight Games’s introspective puzzler Photographs is due out later this year for PC, iOS, and Android. In a demo, I saw how it uses minigames...
Game influencers Jessica Chobot and Greg Miller share their secret: authenticity
For the second year in a row, Greg Miller and Jessica Chobot hosted the DICE Awards, the big Las Vegas event where industry peers...
Job Simulator co-creator Alex Schwartz on making hit VR games look easy
Alex Schwartz, the CEO of Owlchemy Labs, has made virtual reality look easy. His company’s debut game, Job Simulator, is one of the big...
The IndieBeat: How Shakespeare’s Landlord shows the aftermath of sexual trauma — and the road to recovery
Shakespeare’s Landlord is a murder-mystery, but more than that, it’s about Lily Bard’s journey of dealing with past trauma and sexual assault. It’s the...
Where the Water Tastes Like Wine review — a few threads come loose in this intriguing tapestry of tall tales
I was two hours into Where the Water Tastes Like Wine, and it felt like America had run out of happy stories. But the...
Bossa Studios turns to AI for emergent stories within online games
Chet Faliszek left Valve last year after 12 years, with the last few spent evangelizing virtual reality via the company’s SteamVR platform. He took...
Moss review — the most enchanting VR adventure stars a plucky mouse
Moss plunks you into a fairy-tale world. Instead of cutscenes, you flip through the gilded pages of a book as a kindly narrator unravels...
Hearthstone’s esports team has two secret weapons: a Halo vet and an Olympic aspirant
Blizzard Entertainment doesn’t follow anyone’s playbook. It writes its own. We’ve seen that with games like Diablo, StarCraft, and Overwatch. And this approach applies...
Glu Mobile redesigns its headquarters and its strategy
Glu Mobile moved into a brand new headquarters in San Francisco recently, with much of its staff together under one roof in a move...
Blizzard chief Mike Morhaime foresees a long road ahead for esports
Blizzard Entertainment scored big with the debut of its Overwatch League. The official esports league for Overwatch players drew more than 10 million viewers...