Exore: The Rising’s factional world reminds me of my favorite D&D setting
Exore: The Rising caught my attention not for being a role-playing game. I get pitched on several a day, so ideas needs to stand...
Angry Birds maker Rovio announces plans for IPO to raise $36 million
Capping what appears to be a remarkable turnaround, Finland’s Rovio announced today that it has filed for an initial public offering of stock to expand...
Knack 2 review — it rocks
Knack 2 works. Simply, elegantly, its many disparate parts—components that fit together so poorly in the original PlayStation 4 launch game—fuse together to form...
Settlers of Catan is ready for virtual reality
One of the world’s most beloved board games is coming to virtual reality — and a group of designers who want to make the...
The Elder Scrolls Legends and card master Pete Hines face the dragon
Daenerys Targaryen wishes her dragons had an iota of the power that my draconic minions show in The Elder Scrolls: Legends. Of course my wyrms...
American McGee tests the waters for third Alice game
American McGee is best known for his American McGee’s Alice video game, a nightmare version of Alice in Wonderland published in 2000. And now...
Why Stardock wanted to show up early to the Vulkan graphics API party
Stardock updated its Ashes of the Singularity strategy game with support for the Vulkan graphics-rendering API in August, and that introduced some serious performance...
Royal Blood: How Gamevil is betting big on a mobile MMO
Few projects are as ambitious as Royal Blood, a massively multiplayer online fantasy role-playing game for smartphones and tablets. Gamevil plans to release the...
GameMaker Studio creators look back at 17 years of development
Making games is easier than ever — even if it’s still difficult to make good games. One of the tools that tries to enable...
Destiny 2’s open-world design may finally plug the endgame gap
“Endgame” is typically a design element that we associate with massively multiplayer online role-playing games like Guild Wars 2, Star Wars: The Old Republic,...