August 8, 2024
Borderlands’ messy in-between: How a crazy pitch became a video game megahit and movie
It’s been a dozen years in the making and gone through nearly as many writers. Production survived a global pandemic…
Category: Video Games
August 6, 2024
How Tetris became playable on a McNugget and in a Slurpee
Tetris is everywhere. From the esoteric (the Soviet Union’s Electronika 60 in 1985) to the mainstream (the Nintendo Switch) to the…
June 29, 2024
Borderlands, Metal Gear Solid, and the art of the video game adaptation
The first time I spoke with Ari Arad about the Borderlands movie was about seven years ago, perhaps an impressive length of…
June 18, 2024
Squirrel with a Gun evolved from quirky test video to Unreal Engine-powered light-hearted action game
A video of a detailed, realistic brown and gray, bushy-tailed squirrel attracted quite a bit of attention two years ago…
May 31, 2024
Finding a spark of hope in a sea of layoffs
It’s been 2 days since lives were upended. It’s been 2 days since dreams were crushed. It’s been 2 days since an industry…
May 18, 2024
The One Upgrade All Handheld Gaming PCs Need
As the handheld PC gaming wars continue to heat up, it’s starting to feel like some of the competitors don’t…
April 24, 2024
Solo dev makes sophisticated sim Manor Lords using Unreal Engine
Inspired by a swathe of classic strategy games like Stronghold: Crusader, Knights & Merchants, and Age of Empires, and fueled by a love…
April 1, 2024
Game development in the time of a Cuban crisis
For a while, things looked very, very bad for Cuba’s first modern indie video game. Exploding onto the scene nearly…
March 22, 2024
Why the New York Times returned to video game coverage and if it will last
It’s approaching a year since the New York Times cannonballed its way back into video game coverage with a splashy,…
March 20, 2024
Swapping engines in-flight: How Pragma helped Omeda change backends while live
On its surface the V0.15 update for Predecessor seemed like another big content drop for the free-to-play multiplayer online battle arena (MOBA).…