May 10, 2022
How Summer Game Fest is becoming the new E3
It started with a wink. The seemingly context-free, singular winking yellow smiley icon popped up on Geoff Keighley’s Twitter feed…
Author: Brian Crecente
May 4, 2022
Inside the puns, humor, and bricks of LEGO Star Wars: The Skywalker Saga
May the Fourth is always a special day for Star Wars fans for obvious, homophonic reasons. But this particular May…
May 4, 2022
Unreal Engine’s tech unleashed Shadow Warrior 3’s devs
When Flying Wild Hog decided to reboot classic 3D Realms shooter Shadow Warrior, the team knew it had to walk a fine line.…
April 27, 2022
Warstride Challenges channels Doom, TrackMania and Super Meat Boy
Warstride Challenges is designed to be a nimble, brutal, and rewarding first-person shooter enjoyed in short gameplay sessions. But it also…
April 20, 2022
Space Punks aims to turn top-down gaming into a hobby
It started as a desire to create not just a video game, but a digital hobby. “It’s not going to…
April 20, 2022
The Anacrusis’ colorful retro futurism delivers Left 4 Dead play to ‘70s outer space
Chet Faliszek likes to tell a good story. You’ve probably experienced some of his work in games like Half-Life 2, Portal, and Counter-Strike:…
April 7, 2022
Old Boy, John Wick, Sifu: The design of a Pak Mei master
In just seven years and two games, Sloclap has minted a name for itself as a studio that manages to…
March 31, 2022
Why gaming plays such an important role in Black Girls CODE
Founded in 2011 in the Bay Area, Black Girls CODE started after Kimberly Bryant’s daughter was disappointed with her time…
March 30, 2022
DEATH STRANDING: Director’s Cut on PC is the best version of Kojima’s creation
Video game auteur Hideo Kojima and his team are delighted with the reaction to DEATH STRANDING, but they want to…
March 30, 2022
How developers used Unreal Engine to showcase The Wolf Among Us 2 from inside the game
The journey between Telltale Games’ cult classic graphic adventure game The Wolf Among Us and its sequel is as surprising and dramatic…