Dan Starkey

Of Steam Users is Still More than 375,000 Yesterday Gunpoint developer Tom Francis said, “to the nearest percent, 0% of Steam users own Gunpoint.” That may not sound like much, but according to Valve’s own recent figure of 75 million users, that translates to 375,000 buyers. Even if we cut that figure in half, and…

Years Since the Release of the Dreamcast in North America Sega’s Dreamcast has a special place in the hearts of many as a console a bit ahead of its time. For me, it was a gateway into the world of addictive, zany Japanese games. I played everything from Jet Grind Radio and Samba de Amigo…

Amazing Things I Saw While Playing the Best God Game Ever Made God games haven’t been too popular in recent years. For a while I thought that was because there hadn’t been any good ones made recently, but that really isn’t the case. I’ve just been looking in all the wrong places. Dawn of Worlds…

Reduction in Stress When You Play Casual Games Casual games can get a bad rap, but research has consistently shown that they can dramatically reduce depression and relieve stress. Since 2008 researchers at East Carolina University have consistently demonstrated these effects. Their results have been pretty conclusive showing that casual games like Peggle can reduce…

Number Of Different Teams Possible in Pokémon Pokémon is endlessly fascinating to me. It has layers of complexity that keep it that keep it both accessible to younger players and interesting for adults. While on a very long and boring plane ride this past week, I got to wondering just how many different Pokémon teams…

Calories You’ll Burn by Playing a Video Game for One Hour This probably won’t come as a surprise to anyone, but playing games doesn’t use that much energy. A study in the Journal of Pediatrics found that adults playing sedentary games (the study used Disney’s Extreme Skate Adventure) only burn 10% more calories than people…

Fus Ro Dahs It’d Take to Stop Earth Mid-Orbit It’s no surprise that physicists sometimes like video games too, but three professors published a paper in the “Journal of Physics Special Topics” discussing how much energy Skyrim‘s famous shout would actually have. Being the trivia-obsessed dude I am, I immediately wanted to know how many…

Size of the Attack on Sony’s Servers Throughout the past week hackers have been taking down Twitch.tv, Xbox Live, PSN, League of Legends, and Battle.net in addition to causing a lot of trouble for Sony Online Entertainment President John Smedley. Seeing so many large and brazen assaults might lead you to think that it takes…

What EA Expects to Pull in from DLC Next Year In a chat with Bloomberg, a spokesperson from EA mentioned that total revenue from DLC could hit $1 billion this year, with sports titles being a “major contributor” to that figure. According to analyst firm Cowen and Co., Madden 15 alone should generate $350 million…

Of Game Developers Are Women The International Game Developer’s Association or IGDA represents the interests of thousands of developers worldwide. Over the past few months, they’ve been steadily releasing data from a recent poll of their members about demographics, working conditions, and more. Here are some of the highlights: The number of women in games…

Clones of Swing Copters in Less Than 24 Hours Dong Nguyen’s follow-up to Flappy Bird was released today, and as developer Christer Kaitila pointed out, there’s already plenty of copycats. By my count there were 25 that had been published since Swing Copters was officially released earlier today, but that’s bound to increase. When Flappy…

Hard drives made in Minecraft You’d Need to Have to Store Minecraft in Minecraft I love seeing what people can do with Minecraft. From starships to functional processors, it shows the power and ingenuity of people when given a practically unlimited environment. This latest one is right up there with my all-time favorites, as a…

How Much It’d Currently Cost To Set Up Cloud Gaming For The US People have been skeptical of how well game streaming technology can possibly work for quite some time. Early reports from the Playstation Now Beta aren’t doing much to help consumers feel better. Many folks are saying the technology just isn’t there yet,…

Years It’d ACTUALLY Take to Visit Each Planet in No Man’s Sky This past week, No Man’s Sky developer, Hello Games, mentioned that it uses a 64-bit seed to generate its planets. That got picked up by a few folks and they began saying things like “Seeing everything in No Man’s Sky will take over…

Total Crowdfunding for Star Citizen Star Citizen hit a new milestone this weekend, blazing past $50 million raised in total. It is by more than ten times as successful as Torment: Tides of Numenera, the next most crowd funded game. Just two weeks ago the Star Citizen broke $49 million. At the time project lead…

PlayStation 4s Sold and That Matters More Than You Think Stamping out any doubt that the PS4 is selling, Sony announced today that 10 million consoles have new homes. That figure is from the tail end of July, putting the PS4 only slightly behind where the Wii was nine months in and well ahead of…

States That Really Don’t Want to Pay For Watch_Dogs [Update] Update 8/15: The graph shows the most popular torrents per state, relative to the national average—which is not the same as “most popular,” as TorrentFreak explains here. Original article: Real-estate blog Movoto posts lots of novelty infographics, and their latest looks at which games are…

People with VAC Bans on Steam The Valve Anti-Cheat System (VAC) is probably the single most-used strategy to counter cheaters in online gaming. It’s used for all Source engine games and a ban in one game will keep you from being able to play any of the games on their list. Because the system is…

Your Odds of Being an eAthlete Esports is rapidly becoming one of the most popular ways for people to spend their time. League famously has 27 million daily users now, and DotA 2‘s the International was the largest tournament in history with a total prize pool of over $10,000,000. To put that in perspective, according…

Years Ago Today, Resident Evil‘s Creator Was Born It’s Shinji Mikami’s birthday. The game designer is responsible for some of the most influential games around, including Resident Evil, Devil May Cry, Phoenix Wright, Viewtiful Joe, Killer 7, and God Hand. He’s one of the industry’s seminal figures – effectively inventing the survival horror genre as…