Dan Starkey

Total Cost of Publishing One Indie Game Last week Sixty Second Shooter developer Jamie Fristrom released the total cost for publishing on the Xbox One at $5,143. That figure may be daunting to some, but it’s also close to the absolute minimum to publish on a console. I spoke with Tyrone Rodriguez, a developer working…

Your Chances of Winning a Hearthstone Match if You Go First Who goes first in turn-based games has always been a point of contention, but Ars Technica crunched the numbers for professional Hearthstone matches. Their full analysis is pretty interesting overall, but they found that the first player won 110 out of 219 recorded matches.…

Times I Died Finishing Resident Evil 4‘s Professional Mode RE4 is among my all-time favorite games. It’s a comfortable fall-back. When I get sick of new games and just want to slaughter some pseudo-zombies, it’s always been there for me. Part of that comes from the game’s crazy unlockables and the ease with which you…

Seconds You Could Stay in Space without Injury (Guardians of the Galaxy Spoilers ahead) There’s a common misconception that exposure to the vacuum of space would cause immediate death. Guardians of the Galaxy came out last weekend and there’s one scene in which Peter Quill floats through space for some time without any protection .…

People Who Went to the Moon in the Destiny Beta Over the weekend Bungie released a detailed infographic with some cool statistics from the Destiny beta. A few of note: 851,264 players went to the moon 1969 claimed to land on the moon but faked it (get it?) 777,000 players also used the Destiny companion…

Box Office Opening Weekend for Guardians of the Galaxy Last weekend Marvel Studios released the latest film in the Marvel Cinematic Universe to rave reviews and a record-breaking opening gross for August. According to Forbes, it’s the third biggest opening of the year after Captain America: The Winter Soldier and Transformers: Age of Extinction, each…

Number of Videos Available to Watch in PewDiePie’s Official App PewDiePie, the world’s most popular YouTube personality has produced nearly 2,000 videos over 51 months, attracting 29.2 million subscribers. His YouTube career has been so successful that his multichannel partner, Maker Studios, has published an iOS app for fans to access his content on their…