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Remember Slender? (Slender: The Arrival, specifically?) Its small development team — Blue Isle Studios — has grown, and the new project they’re working on is bigger, too. They’ve gone fr...
Homefront: The Revolution, the sequel to Kaos Studios’ underwhelming 2011 shooter Homefront (a game best remembered for correctly predicting the year of Kim Jong-il’s death), is nast...
Ah, Sunshine. You might’ve failed at the box office, but your gorgeous soundtrack will live on in trailers for years to come. Case in point, the above announcement trailer for Civilizatio...
Possibly the most genuinely fun-looking gameplay reveal during microsoft’s press conference was for Sea of Thieves, the Rare-developed pirate MMO announced during last year’s Microsoft...
In American trademark law, companies have to defend their trademarks against unauthorized use. For the most part, this is common sense: Coca-Cola wants to be sure the drinks bearing its logo are actua...
Nintendo, that family-friendly game company with the iPod-white consoles and mustachioed plumber mascot, announced today via press release it would be selling off the bulk of its financial investment...
As we approach E3, more studios and publishers are rolling out announcements for new major games and DLC. One such is Bungie’s massively multiplayer sci-fantasy shoot-n’-loot, Destiny, which...
It takes a lot for an FPS to impress me. I would consider myself only the most casual fan of the genre, someone who enjoys the off-kilter offerings (the BioShocks, the recent DOOM, etc.), and just dab...
Good things come to those who distract themselves with other good things. Sega 3D Classics Collection inspired this adage that I just made up. When I fire up either Thunder Blade or...
Kiro’o Games wants to break out onto the international gaming scene in a big way. Not only is it releasing the first ever fantasy RPG from Cameroon, but founder Olivier Madiba wants to be the first Af...
In middle school I read the manga adaptation of Koushun Takami’s Battle Royale. I wasn’t old enough to read it, but when you’re a teenager, getting away with things you’re not supposed to is...
The original Twilight Zone is revered as one of the most significant television shows of all time. Episodes from its first five seasons have been hugely influential not just on genre fic...
Cheating is as old as gaming, but it still presents brand new problems. Gone are the days of simple cheat codes in secluded sessions between player and machine. In their place, a booming new business...
Vapor. Steam. Something something blowing smoke. Facing heat. Look, I just want to get all these puns out of the way from the get-go so I’m not tempted later on.
Put away the energy drinks and caffeinated sodas. It’s time to play with a more mature palate. Meats, cheeses, and even Girl Scout cookies can be paired with a variety of alcohol, so why not video gam...
Harassment in virtual reality will be more personal, more intense, and more traumatic than in any other online space – and developers need to be ready. That is according to Patrick Harris, lead game d...
The recent Yakuza games are (rightly) praised for their highly authentic localizations, which retain all the Japanese flavor and cultural nuances of the originals. The downside of this is, un...
Do you ever feel like probability is a load of codswallop? That the odds are just a farce? That the 90% punctuality rate boasted by your train operator in no way reflects their actual performance, or...
