This indie game offers a counterpoint to the Google manifesto
Elizabeth Sampat is an award-winning game designer who’s worked on blockbuster titles like Plants Vs Zombies 2 and Subway Surfers. She also makes small, intensely...
VR can be a mainstream tech — but it’s not ready yet
Though it may seem virtual reality has emerged in the last few years, the technology has been around for quite some time. The term...
Bait! fishing game maker Tommy Palm is hooked on mobile VR
Mobile virtual reality is hard, and it isn’t growing as fast as predicted. But Resolution Games CEO Tommy Palm is sticking with it. His...
Carnegie Mellon’s ETC is like the Disneyland of video game schools
Carnegie Mellon University’s Entertainment Technology Center became famous in part because of The Last Lecture. Computer scientist Randy Pausch and Donald Marinelli, a professor of drama,...
Schell Games builds games that change players for the better
The video game industry is full of companies that make sequels and derivative titles. But Schell Games was started by game design professor Jesse...
Adobe taps Apple, Google, Facebook, Microsoft, and Mozilla to kill Flash by 2020
Flash will officially be dead in three years. Adobe today announced it will stop updating and distributing its Flash Player at the end of...
Google Play’s Indie Games Festival now taking submissions until August 6
The second Google Play Indie Games Festival will be held in San Francisco on September 23, and it’s now accepting submissions. Developers can submit their...
Game investor Phil Harrison sees the broader view of games beyond Sony and Microsoft
Phil Harrison was probably the tallest person at the Gamelab gaming event in Barcelona, Spain, this week. And that, along with his decades of...
Google Play’s Android Excellence collections highlight the quarter’s best apps and games
Google today launched Android Excellence, a new Google Play program that showcases the highest quality Android apps and games of the quarter. The company...
Turtle Rock’s Steve Goldstein believes the console game industry lacks risk takers
I’ve formed a lot of opinions about the game industry over the years. And I recently got the chance to spout them in a...