Categories Posted inin Gameplay Todd Howard: 10 takeaways from Bethesda’s studio director at Gamelab Posted byby Dean Takahashi June 28, 2018 3 min Todd Howard has been working at Bethesda Game Studios for 25 years, and at the recent Electronic Entertainment Expo (E3), fans hung on his... Continue Reading 3 min
Categories Posted inin Business Jon ‘Neverdie’ Jacobs raises Ethereum cryptocurrency to enable cross-platform online game avatars Posted byby Dean Takahashi July 16, 2017 10 min Jon “Neverdie” Jacobs has done some crazy things, like running for “President of Virtual Reality” and buying a virtual asteroid for $100,000 in real... Continue Reading 10 min
Categories Posted inin Gameplay The DeanBeat: Game industry’s leaders share more wisdom Posted byby Dean Takahashi July 14, 2017 7 min Summer used to be a slow time for games. After the Electronic Entertainment Expo (E3), the big game industry show in Los Angeles, everybody... Continue Reading 7 min
Categories Posted inin Gameplay Ultima creator Richard Garriott looks back on nearly four decades making video games Posted byby Dean Takahashi July 10, 2017 22 min Richard Garriott has had a wonderful life in video games. But the founder of Portalarium and creator of the Ultima series has also done... Continue Reading 22 min
Categories Posted inin Business Why the developer of Inside and Limbo formed a new indie game studio Posted byby Dean Takahashi July 9, 2017 7 min Dino Patti cofounded game studio Playdead in Copenhagen, Denmark, in 2006. The indie team created an award-winning title, Limbo, in 2010. It won a... Continue Reading 7 min
Categories Posted inin Business Rime developer talks about Spain’s struggle to grow in games Posted byby Dean Takahashi July 8, 2017 9 min Companies like Tequila Works, the maker of games such as Rime and Deadlight, are trying to put the gusto in game development in Spain.... Continue Reading 9 min
Categories Posted inin Business Shadow of the Colossus director Fumito Ueda reveals his game design philosophy Posted byby Dean Takahashi July 7, 2017 4 min Fumito Ueda is considered to be one of the great artists of the Japanese video game business, as the creator of Ico, Shadow of... Continue Reading 4 min
Categories Posted inin Gameplay Remedy’s Sam Lake on 21 years of game storytelling and transmedia Posted byby Dean Takahashi July 5, 2017 15 min Sam Lake has been writing stories for Remedy Entertainment’s games for 21 years. He started with the graphic novel tale of Max Payne, and... Continue Reading 15 min
Categories Posted inin Gameplay The Future Group changes both game shows and live events with mixed reality Posted byby Dean Takahashi July 4, 2017 15 min Game shows have been losing younger audiences for some time. The Future Group wants to change that by making game shows more interactive with mixed... Continue Reading 15 min
Categories Posted inin Gameplay Why Pay Day 2 game publisher Starbreeze made its crazy dive into VR hardware Posted byby Dean Takahashi July 3, 2017 11 min 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... Continue Reading 11 min