Interview: Ikaruga’s beloved developer Treasure on keeping games old-school forever
Treasure won. Masato Maegawa and his crew of arcade game obsessives tore out of Konami in 1993 to start their own company. To make...
Apple’s gaming censorship continues: The Binding of Isaac blocked from App Store
Apple has repeatedly shown its contempt for gaming, and the company still hasn’t changed. Developer Tyrone Rodriguez, founder of studio Nicalis, revealed that Apple...
Why Spelunky, Meat Boy, and other indie stars are photo-bombing each other’s games
Indie developers like Edmund McMillen, Derek Yu, and Nicalis talk about finding friendship through animated characters.
3DS in danger: Why piracy is a bigger problem than just sales
Could piracy really ruin the 3DS's future? Developers explain why it's bad for everyone and what, if anything, we can do to stop it.
Binding of Isaac: Rebirth coming to consoles with 16-bit graphics
The game's developers agrees to bring the adventure title to consoles with a few improvements.
Indie devs: Quality content trumps following trends, free-to-play ‘is kind of a slum’
Indie devs trumpet the importance of quality content, ridicule free-to-play gaming.
Our picks for the best video games of the fall season
NOTE: Each week, I’m writing a column on videogames called The DeanBeat that’s available to newsletter subscribers a day before it appears on the...