Watch Journey creator Jenova Chen's DICE talk about how to make emotional games, including that emotional fan-letter
Watch The Stellar 2013 Sequel To 2010's Most Provocative Talk About…
In 2010, professor and game designer Jesse Schell gave an amazing talk
Watch The DICE Awards Live, Right Here [Update: Winners Announced]
The annual DICE convention brings a bunch of big-deal thinkers and video-game creators to Vegas to engage in high-minded talk about creativity and technology and innovation. There's also lots of free food, or so I hear.
Watch Heavy Rain's Creator Talk About How Gaming Needs To Grow Up
Yesterday at DICE, Heavy Rain and Beyond: Two Souls creator David Cage gave a provocative talk titled "The Peter Pan Syndrome: The Industry That Refused to Grow Up."
Two Quotes That Help Warren Spector Assess Where He's At Right Now
Legendary game designer Warren Spector was talking at the DICE convention in Las Vegas today, but didn't want to talk about his departure from Disney and the shuttering of his studio
Ouya Will Be Getting Tim Schafer's Big Kickstarter Game. Other Consoles …
Tim Schafer throwback Kickstarter-funded game, Double Fine Adventure, is coming to multiple platforms, but only to one console, the CEO of the upcoming Android mini-console said today during a talk at DICE. It's coming to hers, the Ouya.
Forget Powerpoint. They've Got Rayman.
At the DICE convention in Las Vegas, Ubisoft's Xavier Poix illustrates his talk about Ubisoft's creation of launch games for new platforms using the Rayman Origins UbiArt game engine to essentially make an interactive slide-show. It's a side-scroller as Powerpoint, steered with an Xbox 360 controller.
Nine Ways Video Games Need to Grow Up, From the Guy Who Made Heavy…
"These are exciting times for the gaming industry," game designer David Cage of Quantic Dream (Heavy Rain, Beyond: Two Souls) said as he began a talk here in Las Vegas that seemed set to criticize the modern state of gaming. After all, the talk was called: "The Peter Pan Syndrome: The Industry That Refused to Grow Up."
Gabe Newell and J.J. Abrams Say They Want to Make Movies and Games…
Today at the game industry's DICE conference, the guy in charge of Valve and the man directing both Star Wars and Star Trek said that they want to make Portal and Half-Life movies. And games, too.
Next Year, Gabe Newell Becomes a Video Game Hall of Famer
John Carmack's in there. Will Wright's in there, too. So are Tim Sweeney, Peter Molyneux and Shigeru Miyamoto. And now Gabe Newell will be joining all of those video game luminaries in the Academy of Interactive Arts & Sciences Hall of Fame.