The Messenger is the ninja Metroidvania that leaps from 8-bit to 16-bit art
Canadian indie developer Sabotage Studio has announced The Messenger, a new ninja-themed platform game coming in 2018. It’s the debut for this Quebec-based company. The...
To brand or not to brand your next video game
To brand or not to brand is one of the oldest discussions in video games. Adding a popular brand like Harry Potter could be...
MIGS 2017: Brain dump reveals the worries and hopes of game developers
It’s below freezing in Montreal now, and I’m happy I’m not still there. But for the third year in a row, I enjoyed my...
Minority Media bets on VR arcade games to survive
Virtual reality developers have to be creative to survive the VR desert, where sales haven’t kept up with expectations. So Vander Caballero, founder of Minority Media and...
World Series of Poker: How Playtika’s Montreal team has kept the mobile game on top
Social casino games have become a $4.2 billion business, and Israel-based Playtika has about a quarter of the market. The company, which was acquired...
Assassin’s Creed: Origins — How Ubisoft created the art for the massive open world
Ubisoft created such a massive world for Assassin’s Creed: Origins, the latest open-world game set in the world of ancient Egypt. And one of...
For Honor: How Ubisoft created a new brand and genre
Shoot-em-ups are a popular genre in video games. But Ubisoft wanted to make a “chop-em-up” melee game, and it had to think hard about...
The DeanBeat: How Canada’s game industry is thriving, one Cuphead at a time
I spent a few days at the Montreal International Game Summit this week, where 2,600 game developers gathered to talk shop. It was, once...
Cuphead developers bet everything on a 1930s-cartoon-style game
Studio MDHR has sold an estimated 1.5 million copies of Cuphead for the PC and Xbox One since the challenging run-and-gun game debuted on...