Warcraft at 25: How Blizzard’s strategy game became a media empire
This is a landmark year for Warcraft. World of Warcraft Classic will bring players back to the massively multiplayer online role-playing game’s earliest days...
Blizzard boss J. Allen Brack: World of Warcraft’s past, future, and his hectic start
J. Allen Brack is now the president of Blizzard Entertainment, but he used to be the executive producer of World of Warcraft. With the...
How Lorne Lanning re-imagined Abe’s Exoddus as Oddworld: Soulstorm
Oddworld Inhabitants has been telling the interactive story of Abe for more than two decades. And now it has shown off the first look...
Rage 2 impressions — fun wins
I’m only a few hours into Rage 2, but I know I like it enough that I’m going to beat it. And that’s despite...
Keywords expands game development outsourcing in Japan
Keywords is becoming a lot more visible as a 6,000-person company for outsourcing game development. It recently added 45 more developers with the acquisition...
How Facebook plans to boost augmented reality with Spark AR
More than a billion people have interacted with Facebook’s Spark AR augmented reality platform. But that might mean that we’ve all had cat faces...
Days Gone review — A great game that loses itself in the wilderness of bugs
Days Gone has perhaps the most technical flaws that I’ve seen in a major triple-A video game in recent years. Yet I finished the...
How George Fan created the wacky Plants vs. Zombies a decade ago
George Fan is a master of zany game design. He created Plants vs. Zombies, the crazy surprise hit that PopCap Games launched a decade...
Why Epic Games called an open platform truce with Microsoft
A couple of years ago, Microsoft and Epic Games executives were mad at each other. Epic Games CEO Tim Sweeney called out Microsoft because...
Oculus Quest interview — Standalone VR built for value-conscious gamers
Since its announcement last year, Oculus Quest has been touted as the next evolution of VR — a completely standalone, tetherless device with the...