Tim Schafer interview: Psychonauts 2, crowdfunding’s future, and staying nimble
Tim Schafer is the game industry’s favorite silly man. He hosted the awards ceremonies at the Game Developers Conference (GDC), cracking jokes about Trump and...
Gang Beasts brawls its way out of Early Access on December 12
Gang Beasts is a delightfully goofy multiplayer brawler set in the colorful metropolis Beef City. Indie developer Boneloaf and publisher Double Fine Productions released...
YouTube culture is turning kids against art games
My game “Everything is going to be OK” was included in Double Fine’s Day of the Devs. Yay! I’m happy to get publicity for...
Double Fine unveils 70-game lineup for Day of the Devs indie festival
Double Fine’s fifth annual Day of the Devs indie games festival is coming up. It’s a one-day free event from 1 p.m. to 8...
Gameheads’ second annual showcase shows off the work of Oakland’s budding game devs
Gameheads is going back to school to solve the game industry’s diversity problem. It’s a year-round program based in Oakland, California, that teaches development...
Why Pay Day 2 game publisher Starbreeze made its crazy dive into VR hardware
Sweden’s Starbreeze Studios made its name as the publisher of games such as Pay Day, Pay Day 2, Dead by Daylight, Brothers: A Tale...
Ooblets is Animal Crossing plus Pokémon plus unimaginable levels of cuteness
Ooblets, a Harvest Moon-Pokémon-Animal Crossing-esque mashup, brought a huge dose of cuteness to the PC Gaming Show today ahead of Tuesday’s Electronic Entertainment Expo...
GamesBeat weekly roundup: Square Enix creates its own Kickstarter service, Activision allowed to buy itself for $8.17B
This week, the Delaware supreme court will permit publisher Activision to buy parent company’s Vivendi’s stake in the biz for $8.17 billion, Grand Theft...
GamesBeat weekly roundup: GTA Online’s rocky launch, Mojang revealed, and going to League of Legends school
This week, legendary military thriller author Tom Clancy dies at 66, Grand Theft Auto V’s online mode launches but not without a few problems,...
Kinect-like Leap Motion 3D camera launches with over 75 applications
Leap Motion enables precise gestural control through 10-finger tracking for only $80.