Should A Dead Deer In The Division 2 Drop Meat?

Game creators make the rules of the worlds they design, setting the physics and establishing what’s acceptable or lucrative to do in the world. Currently, killing enemy people in The Division 2 gives players loot, but a recent jocular chat among two of the game’s developers got me thinking about whether shooting the game’s animals…

BloodRoots Lets Players Fight With (Almost) Everything In Sight

Upcoming hack-and-slash RPG BloodRoots is all about its verbs: “smash, slice, crush, blast, crack, slam, burst, break, split, slit, gut, tear, gash, gouge, scoop, cut, chop, dice, hash, grind,” it promises. BloodRoots premiered yesterday at Nintendo’s indie games GDC event in San Francisco, where I met Raphael Toulouse, co-founder of developer Paper Cult, who explained…

Return Of The Obra Dinn Wins Lots Of Awards At GDC, While God Of War Wins Game Of The Year

This week is the Game Developers Conference in San Francisco. The conference features two awards shows, the Game Developers Choice awards and the Independent Games Festival awards. Here are the winners. Papers, Please developer Lucas Pope’s latest game, the ocean mystery Return of the Obra Dinn, had a strong showing in both awards. The game…

30 Hours With Sekiro: Shadows Die Twice

Sekiro: Shadows Die Twice, the latest game from Dark Souls and Bloodborne development studio FromSoftware, is out tomorrow. After 30 hours of fighting and struggling and strategizing and getting good, I can say I’ve been having an absolute blast. I’m a big action gamer, though I skipped the Souls series. For a take from franchise…

Realistic Yu-Gi-Oh Duel Disk Costs Almost $200

A nearly one-to-one scale Duel Disk is going on sale in Japan. In Yu-Gi-Oh!, the Duel Disk is a piece of dueling hardware for card-carrying Duelists. Priced at 21,600 yen ($195), this realistic Duel Disk has light up effects, and it can play four Yu-Gi-Oh songs and forty different Yu-Gi-Oh catchphrases. It was released on…

Hayao Miyazaki Seems To Hate Lord of the Rings, Indiana Jones And Hollywood Movies

Hayao Miyazaki may like many things, but the Lord of the Rings movies and the Indiana Jones series don’t appear to be among them. In an interview that dates from a few years back, Miyazaki not only criticized Hollywood, but those who enjoy its films. The interview has recently been appearing on major Japanese blogs…

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The Human Story Behind Call Of Duty’s Zombie Mode

Jesse Snyder, the creator of Call of Duty’s Zombies mode, sacrificed sleep and faced internal pushback when making the now-iconic undead mode for the game. In the process, he also realized he’d rather make less realistic games, not the gritty simulation fare of Call of Duty. Now, he’s the creative director at NantG, and this…

March At Dawn

Jama Jurabaev is a senior concept artist at Lucasfilm, and has recently worked on movies like Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom, Ready Player One and The Crimes of Grindelwald You can see more of Jama’s stuff at his ArtStationpage.

Epic Says Its Store Won’t Sell ‘Porn Games Or Bloatware’

It’s been a big day for the Epic Games Store. During its GDC keynote, Epic announced a boatload of new exclusives (including Detroit: Become An Epic Games Store Exclusive) and a deal with Humble. Momentum appears to be on the store’s side, with Epic now touting strong early sales and a more curated approach than…

Goat Simulator Developers’ New Game Is About Building The Perfect Factory

The opening track “Ever” on the band Flipper’s classic first album, Album, contains the lyric, “Ever look at a flower, and hate it?” As I was playing Satisfactory, the new game from the developer of Goat Simulator, I realized that lyric pretty much sums up what the game is about. While Goat Simulator was about…