Categories Posted inin Gameplay Rovio CEO — Taking Angry Birds to movies, augmented reality, and beyond Posted byby Dean Takahashi March 30, 2019 6 min Some people think that Angry Birds is too big. Like a meme that everyone has seen on the internet. Since 2009, the games with... Continue Reading 6 min
Categories Posted inin Business Keywords: The not-so-secret elves of game development Posted byby Dean Takahashi March 30, 2019 11 min We’ve heard about a lot of job losses in the video game industry, with Electronic Arts and Activision Blizzard laying off more than 1,150... Continue Reading 11 min
Categories Posted inin Business Analogue Mega SG review – An excellent console for old Sega games Posted byby Jeff Grubb March 27, 2019 5 min If you want to play some old Sega games, you have no shortage of options. You can get the Genesis Classics collection on PC... Continue Reading 5 min
Categories Posted inin Gameplay Sam Barlow interview — The tangled web of interactive movie games Posted byby Dean Takahashi March 27, 2019 28 min Sam Barlow’s interactive movie game Her Story won numerous awards in 2015 because it was a novel way to tell a story about a... Continue Reading 28 min
Categories Posted inin Gameplay Insomniac’s Stormland is looking better as an open-world VR game Posted byby Dean Takahashi March 27, 2019 2 min Insomniac Games is getting more ambitious with its virtual reality games. And Stormland, the fourth VR effort from the maker of the smash hit... Continue Reading 2 min
Categories Posted inin Business Yoshi’s Crafted World review — cute, but dull Posted byby Mike Minotti March 27, 2019 2 min I don’t take notes when I’m reviewing games. I used to, right when I got started, but I soon found I never used them.... Continue Reading 2 min
Categories Posted inin Gameplay Outward interview: Unlearn what you have learned about role-playing games Posted byby Jason Wilson March 26, 2019 12 min The first time I left the starting town in the indie role-playing game Outward, I found what looked like to be a giant chicken.... Continue Reading 12 min
Categories Posted inin Business Steven Ma interview — How Tencent is more than just a big game investor Posted byby Dean Takahashi March 26, 2019 16 min Steven Ma joined Tencent in 2007, when most people in the world probably had not heard about the Shenzhen, China-based company. Now Tencent is... Continue Reading 16 min
Categories Posted inin Gameplay The Lord of the Rings: Gollum interview — Middle-earth doesn’t intimidate Daedalic’s CEO Posted byby Jason Wilson March 25, 2019 13 min Daedalic Entertainment made what I thought was the biggest video game franchise news of last week’s Game Developers Conference 2019 in San Francisco —... Continue Reading 13 min
Categories Posted inin Gameplay Why CCP Games crammed 14,274 spaceships into an Eve Online battle Posted byby Dean Takahashi March 25, 2019 11 min It’s been seven months since Black Desert Online creator Pearl Abyss of South Korea acquired EVE Online maker CCP Games for $425 million. But... Continue Reading 11 min