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…
Tag: video games
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 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 9, 2022
The real engine driving Redout 2’s liquid‑fast graphics
The original Redout was an anti-gravity racing game set in 2560 and inspired by the likes of other racing greats like F-Zero, Wipeout, and POD.…
March 3, 2022
Ukraine, Steam Deck, Bandcamp: The Week in Games
It’s been a troubling, and eventful week in the games industry and, well, everywhere. Of course, the war in Ukraine…
January 3, 2022
Dread Hunger combines survival horror with asymmetrical multiplayer
Released into Early Access earlier this year, Dread Hunger is a clever mix of survival horror and social gamesmanship. It’s a game…
December 14, 2021
SteamWorld series developer leveraged Unreal to craft its first 3D game, The Gunk
Upcoming action-adventure game The Gunk is both a metaphoric examination of modern society’s struggle with conservation and a chance for the development…