Spain’s MercurySteam goes indie with Raiders of the Broken Planet
Spanish game studio MercurySteam Entertainment has been making console and PC games since the early 2000s. Its credits include the failed American McGee Presents:...
John Romero isn’t done with the first-person shooter genre he helped create
John Romero made a name for himself in game development as one of the original creators of Wolfenstein, Doom, and Quake. He helped establish...
How computing legend David Braben schemed to create Elite: Dangerous and Raspberry Pi
David Braben became a gaming legend in the 1980s with the creation of Elite, a 3D space exploration game in the 1980s. He went...
16-year-old game maker’s fourth company teaches kids to code
At 16, Jordan Casey is a little young to be giving back. But he’s doing it anyway. This Irish game developer is on his...
Eidos founder Ian Livingstone is driving the U.K. to teach games in schools
Ian Livingstone is one of the founding fathers of games in the United Kingdom. He cofounded Games Workshop in 1975 and launched Dungeons &...
Telltale’s Dan Connors never gets tired of a good interactive story
Disclosure: The organizers of Gamelab paid my way to Barcelona. Our coverage remains objective. Telltale Games has always focused on interactive storytelling in its...
How Doom reveals its secrets like a Frank Frazetta painting
John Carmack, the cofounder of id Software and co-creator of the original Doom, once said, “Story in a game is like a story in...
Atari cofounder’s son takes video games beyond the couch
Console and PC games have become overly complicated with 16-button controllers and boring because they encourage sedentary activities. That’s the view of Brent Bushnell,...