Comic-book creators working on big game franchises spoke today about how they are seeking to create new stories and plots for their characters, separate from games. Representatives of companies licensing characters like Lara Croft, The Last of Us' Ellie and Halo 4's Sara Palmer spoke at a panel, hosted by comic publisher Dark Horse Publishing. She's still figuring out the…
Looking back over a year's worth of news, a lot happened in 2014. Studios fell apart, others rose from the ashes. Game makers worked through war, floods, even — according to one team — the schemings of Satan. Gamers celebrated the history of games in art, in museums; we even dug some of it up and sold it on eBay.…
I miss Uncle Bob. He was a good man, a world traveller and one of the smartest people I’ve ever met. His loss is still felt at every family gathering. Only in the past year or so have my in-laws found the strength to go through his things and finish settling his estate. It's hard work. Mostly paperwork, but also…
Evolve developers Turtle Rock looked at going down the free-to-play path under THQ in its early stages of development, but while its new publisher, 2K, believes it will "shine brightest as a triple A title," senior producer Mike Boccieri told Games4Life at a press event in Sydney last week, it "never says never." "That is not going to change down…
It's easy to become overwhelmed by all the virtual reality news that came out of the 2015 Game Developers Conference. There was new hardware announced, piles of games to play and peripherals that may or may not be released for hardware that may or may not be coming this year. It's all anyone was talking about, but how should you…
One year ago, I quit drinking. When I quit, life became thorny and unfun. Playing Civilization 5 helped me get through a rough patch. --- I had been a big drinker for the past 30 years. It was hard for me to say goodbye to something that had given me so much pleasure. But it was definitely time to move…
Dragon Quest 10 and 11 are in development for the NX, the codename for Nintendo's next gaming system, according to a Square Enix news conference today translated by Kotaku. Dragon Quest 11, which gets its reveal about an hour into the video, is in development for PlayStation 4 and Nintendo 3DS, as well. A Square Enix slide showing platforms showed the New Nintendo…
Playing through the same Battleborn mission twice at a recent media event, I was struck by one particular notion: this game has a hell of a lot going on. Battleborn is a first-person co-op combat arena game in which, at least for the mission I played, the goal was to clear a lurid sci-fi area of enemy waves. On my…
This is Old Russia as imagined by Lego builder and Destiny player Hunter Erickson. Erickson writes on the Flickr stream for his creation that the Lego tableau isn't meant to be a perfect recreation of Old Russia, but rather a visual summary of everything that makes up the map. That means skeletons, derelict cars, decimated buildings and a destroyed highway bridge.…
This week the kids at Camp Combe YMCA will have the chance to explore the great outdoors in the beautiful wooded hills of upstate New York. Or at least they will, if they have any time left after spending a week and a half inside the world of Minecraft. Camp Combe is a facility that serves over 500 kids a…
