The D20 Beat: Re-creating The Bard’s Tale most iconic scene
One of my favorite pieces of video game box art is from Tales of the Unknown, Vol. 1: The Bard’s Tale, the 1985 fantasy...
World of Warcraft: Battle for Azeroth could have a progression problem
Earlier this week, Blizzard Entertainment released a new patch for World of Warcraft that implemented class changes and added new features ahead of the...
Hearthstone’s The Boomsday Project continues Dr. Boom’s climb to stardom
Video game characters can start from humble roots before becoming stars. Mario was once a more generic hero called Jumpman who starred in a...
Kate Edwards: Still outspoken, from ArenaNet to video game unionization
Kate Edwards was very outspoken as the executive director of the International Game Developers Association. After five years in that job, she left in...
June 2018’s top 10 Minecraft Marketplace creations: Enter the Summer Sale (correction)
The Minecraft Marketplace is about to get the followup on a serious 1-2 punch that could boost creator’s revenues and downloads through the end...
Why Ubisoft isn’t replacing artists with AI tech for Assassin’s Creed
The Assassin’s Creed franchise is among the biggest of the major blockbusters in the gaming industry, and building them is only getting more complicated...
How Unreal Engine 4.20 will jumpstart creativity, scalability, and cross-platform games
With so much news about Fortnite lately, it’s easier to forget that Epic Games makes the Unreal Engine. But today, the game engine behind...
Game devs have three choices interacting online: be a robot, log off — or risk the mob
I remember when I first went online as the representative of a big company. It was 2001, and I was working in the digital...
Amazon responds after third-party sellers put bootleg games on its store
Over the weekend, some thrifty gamers spotted a deal on Amazon. A downloadable version of the tough strategy survival sim Frostpunk was available on...
Fortnite studio Epic wants to improve its hit with Amazon Web Services
Epic Games already hosts its megahit Fortnite on Amazon’s server platform, but the developer revealed today that it is planning to partner with Amazon...