Nexon CEO Owen Mahoney: Game companies say they love innovation but resist creators at every turn
Owen Mahoney has grown skeptical of people who say they love innovation but fail to support creative people. The Nexon CEO brought this up...
Tony Hawk’s Pro Skater 1+2 HD is almost a great Nintendo Switch game
Tony Hawk’s Pro Skater was always a wonderful fit on handheld gaming devices. That was true even before portables were powerful enough to replicate...
Magic: The Gathering’s Adventures in the Forgotten Realms delves into Dungeons
I once feared Magic: The Gathering would kill Dungeons & Dragons. Wizards of the Coast ended up saving it, and now, the granddaddy of...
Icarus breaks up the survival genre into smart session-based gameplay
Icarus is the new game from developer RocketWerkz, which DayZ creator Dean Hall founded in New Zealand following his time at Bohemia Interactive. The...
Dungeons & Dragons: Dark Alliance review: Epic story, so-so combat
One of the charms of author R.A. Salvatore‘s books about the Companions of the Hall are the vivid descriptions of combat. As he works...
Disney interview: Big games coming with Avatar and Pirates of the Caribbean
Disney had a big week at the Electronic Entertainment Expo (E3) with the announcement of Ubisoft’s Avatar: Frontiers of Pandora. The in-development open-world game...
Guardians of the Galaxy: How to balance gameplay, humor, and a good story
Eidos Montreal took the wraps off the video game version of Marvel’s Guardians of the Galaxy this week at the Electronic Entertainment Expo (E3)....
Dark Deity is an ambitious strategy-RPG from a rookie team that’s out now
Chip Moore and Dylan Takeyama and came up with a concept for a turn-based strategy-RPG while in college. But Moore was an economics major;...
Min-Liang Tan interview: Razer’s first AMD gaming laptop, a GaN charger, and 27-inch monitor
Razer took the wraps off some new products today, including its first-ever gaming laptop with a processor from Advanced Micro Devices. It also unveiled...
Humankind interview: Crafting civilization’s narrative
A couple of weeks ago, I played a few hours of Humankind, Amplitude Studios’ 4X strategy game about building a civilization, one culture at...