Mike Mika is hopping gleefully from one foot to the other, beckoning me over to his corner of the room. There are eight Xbox One controllers on a table in front of his couch. On the screen in front of us, his new game, It Draws a Red Box. We're at Microsoft's GDC event for ID@Xbox, the company's attempt to…
Project Director of Batman: Arkham Knight Sefton Hill on his official page on Twitter shared information that the October patch for the console versions of the game will bring its owners a choice of character in «beat em up» test mode of more reality. In other words, in the next month, the owners of consoles will be able to play…
I hit my stress cap and popped to "Afflicted" status during the third week of the Darkest Dungeon Kickstarter — the culprit being the last two months of intensive work and constant decision-making. My own personal Affliction is Irrationality — the pathways in my brain normally so devoted to logic and reason can become twisted like gnarled overlapping roots, and…
At the D23 Expo earlier today, Walt Disney Company CEO Bob Iger announced a pair of massive Star Wars-themed attractions for the company's Disney theme parks in California and Florida. But the company has even more planned for Star Wars at Disneyland and Disney World, including a Star Wars: The Force Awakens-themed update for its classic Star Tours ride. Walt Disney…
When Tango Gameworks, the studio founded by Resident Evil creator Shinji Mikami, and Bethesda Softworks set out to create a teaser for their horror game The Evil Within, they turned to a company called Prologue and director Kyle Cooper. You may not immediately know their names, but you know their work. Venice, Calif.-based Prologue, the creative agency founded by Cooper…
At the center of this week's confusing thicket of news and outrage surrounding YouTube video game copyright sweep is a very simple issue. It's about freedom-of expression and the ability of critics, commentators and journalists to speak to large numbers of people without fear of reprisals or restrictions from corporations. On a more prosaic note, it's also a clash of…
By which I mean "the entirety of your sense of self worth"? I'm not personally, but that hasn't seemed to deter AirVR, which has launched a Kickstarter to fund a gadget that lets you strap your iPad Mini or iPhone 6 Plus to your face and be whisked away to virtual reality. This new reality is, by definition, better than your…
Over the summer an unsuspecting group of video game fans were lured into a presentation for a fake game called Elika's Escape. The United Nations Children’s Fund spent their scant resources on both a marketing and a production company to concoct a scenario for a game so vile that members of the audience were shown leaving the room. The goal…
The Yogscast's Yogventures was the first Kickstarter I ever saw that set off alarm bells in my head. If you've never heard of The Yogscast, understand that it is huge. Originally started in 2008, The Yogscast has grown into one of the most popular YouTube groups. Its main channel has over 7 million subscribers, with individual videos regularly receiving over…
"We are here not to bury Rock Band, but to praise it," began Aaron Trites, community manager for Harmonix Music Systems, at the Rock Band panel during PAX East 2013. But in eulogizing the Rock Band franchise — last month, Harmonix announced its regular schedule of downloadable song releases would end on April 2 — the studio also put to…
