Tetsuya Mizuguchi interview: Taking Tetris on a PS VR acid trip
Tetris is one of the world’s most beloved and addictive video games, bought and downloaded hundreds of millions of times since its 1984 debut....
Square Enix brings Million Arthur VR card battler to the U.S. and more
Square Enix has brought its King Arthur-inspired digital card battler to virtual reality with Million Arthur VR: Character Command RPG. The publisher released Million...
The Gamer’s Brain excerpt: Good UX is key to crafting fun
Creating video games can be hard, and creating a fun and engaging experience is a real challenge. While there is no clear recipe for...
Take This and Wired Productions team up to raise awareness about mental health
Indie publisher Wired Productions and the nonprofit Take This are teaming up for a series of charity events to raise awareness around mental health....
The best games in Steam’s Summer Sale
Prepare the wallets. The Steam Summer Sale has begun. This is one of the craziest times of the year for Valve’s digital PC store....
Forge raises $4.5M to make editing and sharing gameplay clips easy
Twitch and YouTube rule livestreaming and gameplay video. But one company sees a market for people who want to share smaller clips, and it’s...
Starfighter, Inc. takes ‘Babylon 5’-style space combat and adds corporate skullduggery
Forget saving the galaxy. In Impeller Studios' first game, you're a merc flying the flag of a megaconglomerate as the fat cats fight for resources and to impose their mercantile take on law.
A deep dive into the making of the eye-popping Star Swarm demo (interview)
Oxide Games' co-founder Tim Kipp explains how his team created Star Swarm.
Skylanders still ahead of Disney Infinity in 2013 overall — but Minecraft likely beat both
The battle for kids' gaming time was close, but the indie block-building game continued to sell like the phenomenon that it is.
How Blizzard is trying to coax back old World of Warcraft players with the next expansion
Players who prepurchase Warlords of Draenor can automatically upgrade a character to level 90.