Categories Posted inin Gameplay Mark Cerny and Amy Hennig: A fireside chat with master game makers Posted byby Dean Takahashi July 8, 2018 35 min Amy Hennig and Mark Cerny are both 53 years old, and they attended the University of California at Berkeley at the same time. And... Continue Reading 35 min
Categories Posted inin Business Shawn Layden and Mark Cerny: from Icarus moment to managing 3,000 devs Posted byby Dean Takahashi July 1, 2018 27 min Shawn Layden and Mark Cerny deserve a lot of the credit for why Sony’s PlayStation 4 is sitting at the top of the console... Continue Reading 27 min
Categories Posted inin Business Spider-Man hands-on — It’s the webhead game you’ve always wanted Posted byby Jeff Grubb June 12, 2018 2 min When the bizarre (but entertaining) PlayStation media briefing ended the night before the opening of the Electronic Entertainment Expo trade show in Los Angeles,... Continue Reading 2 min
Categories Posted inin Gameplay Insomniac’s mystery VR game is Stormland, an open-world adventure for Oculus Rift Posted byby GamesBeat June 7, 2018 4 min Oculus vice president of content Jason Rubin said that the virtual reality platform was looking for “bigger, deeper” projects in 2018 — and that’s... Continue Reading 4 min
Categories Posted inin Gameplay Insomniac teases its next game — a new VR experience Posted byby Jeff Grubb May 31, 2018 1 min Insomniac is a busy studio. It is preparing to release Spider-Man for PlayStation 4, which is one of the most anticipated games of the... Continue Reading 1 min
Categories Posted inin Business Insomniac’s Spider-Man swings onto PlayStation 4 on September 7 Posted byby Mike Minotti April 4, 2018 1 min Insomniac Games revealed today that its Spider-Man game will come out on September 7. The open-world game is a PlayStation 4 exclusive. This is... Continue Reading 1 min
Categories Posted inin Business Diversity needs to be an inside job Posted byby Dean Takahashi January 22, 2018 24 min Disneyland was a good place to check out the diversity of the game industry. I attended the Casual Connect game conference last week at... Continue Reading 24 min
Categories Posted inin Development Unity hires Insomniac Games triple-A vets to boost its engine’s performance Posted byby Jeff Grubb November 10, 2017 1 min Unity Technologies is bringing in some of the talent that worked on Ratchet & Clank and Sunset Overdrive to help beef up the optimization and... Continue Reading 1 min
Categories Posted inin Gameplay Why Insomniac boss Ted Price stands against Trump’s travel ban and game censorship Posted byby Dean Takahashi May 10, 2017 1 min Ted Price, CEO of Insomniac Games, has never been shy about expressing his opinions. He spoke out against the travel ban, and he talked... Continue Reading 1 min
Categories Posted inin Gameplay Gaming beat the Supreme Court — now it’s time to defend AR and VR Posted byby Jeff Grubb May 2, 2017 2 min The gaming industry has successfully fought off critics and their moral panics for decades, and now it’s time to look ahead to the next... Continue Reading 2 min