Journey to the Savage Planet is a cheeky sci-fi romp packed with secrets
Alex Hutchinson is terrified of any game that asks him to spend hundreds of hours on it. So instead of making a time-sucking, open-world...
Promethean AI automatically generates game scenes, like a bedroom, for human artists
Promethean AI uses artificial intelligence to help human artists create art for video games. It can, for instance, automatically generate a bedroom when a...
How Niantic is preparing for AR’s ubiquitous future
When he was a child, John Hanke was obsessed with pull-out maps from National Geographic magazines, spending hours poring over names and topographic features....
How Control breaks away from Remedy’s past
For its latest game, Remedy Entertainment followed a simple mantra: “Let’s get weird.” The Finland-based developer has always had a fascination with the supernatural,...
Ubisoft Winnipeg guides Ubisoft’s use of AI and cloud computing to make bigger, better games
Darryl Long can’t make his Ultima IV, his favorite game from his formative days. So he works on artificial intelligence and cloud computing to...
Vampire: The Masquerade — Bloodlines II interview: Deathless in Seattle
When Paradox Interactive acquired tabletop role-playing company White Wolf Publishing in October 2015, I and many others wondered how long it’d be until we’d...
Rick and Morty co-creator’s Trover Saves the Universe launches May 31 for PSVR
Squanch Games announced today that Trover Saves the Universe is coming out for PlayStation 4 and PSVR on May 31. The PC version will...
Epic Games Store Q&A tackles China, Metro Exodus backlash, and mature games
The Epic Games Store is gaining momentum with PC developers. But even with its popularity (due to its 88 percent revenue share model), some...
The Lord of the Rings: Gollum interview — Middle-earth doesn’t intimidate Daedalic’s CEO
Daedalic Entertainment made what I thought was the biggest video game franchise news of last week’s Game Developers Conference 2019 in San Francisco —...
The Lord of the Rings: Gollum is Daedalic’s first game in new Middle-earth licensing deal
Daedalic Entertainment has built a reputation for story-rich adventure games since Carsten Fichtelmann and Jan “Poki” Müller-Michaelis founded it in 2007. But last week...