A Beautiful, Animated Tribute To Satoru Iwata

There are lots of awards and drinks and congratulations going on at the Game Developers Choice Awards tonight, but proceedings were stopped dead in their tracks for a few minutes during a most touching tribute tolate Nintendo President Satoru Iwata It was made by Raber Umphenour,Shawne Benson and Braid artist David Hellman, with some help…

Capy Games’ Below, which has been a long time coming, now has a release window: this summer. Here’s a new trailer.

Watch The 2016 IGF/GDC Awards Right Here

Tonight at the Game Developers Conference in San Francisco, both the IGF (Independent Games Festival) and Game Developers Choice Awards are being held. If you want to watch them live, you can do that right here.

Now That Is Some Sensible Armor

Yangtian Li, aka Tian, is an artist from China. In addition to games stuff, Li also has an IndieGoGo running at the moment that’s all about ladies wearing armour. Proper armour. You can see more of Li’s work at her personal site and DeviantArt page. To see the larger pics in all their glory (or,…

At Least Marco Rubio Is Good At Tecmo Bowl (And Talking Shit)

While Marco Rubio was a consistent loser on the 2016 campaign trail, he can hold his head high remembering that there are two things on this Earth that he’s apparently very good at: Tecmo Bowl and talking trash A profile on Salon, focusing on Rubio’s time as a football player at Tarkio College, reveals that…

Successful Kickstarter Ends In Payment Disaster [Update]

A Place for the Unwilling is an adventure game that passed its Kickstarter funding goal earlier today. The celebration was short-lived, however; what followed has been nothing short of a disaster. As soon as the clock ticked over ending the game’s Kickstarter, and the system began to process people’s credit card payments, something went horribly…

Spectacular Final Fantasy Cosplay Looks Like A Screenshot

Kilory is Kilory, a human cosplayer. She is not, as these images might have you believe, a living, breathing incarnation of Final Fantasy XIII’s Lightning. With some help from props maker 月家猫空 璟宿 和谐, she’s gotten as close to the series’ likeness as I think a human being is ever going to get. Simply incredible…

A Video Game About Changing What Happens In Shakespeare’s Hamlet

Elsinore is a game where you play as Ophelia from Shakespeare’s Hamlet. She’s stuck in a time loop, ala Groundhog Day or Legend of Zelda: Majora’s Mask. Her goal? To prevent Hamlet, a Shakespearean tragedy so tragic that it borders on ludicrous, from ending tragically. I took a look at the game while at GDC…

‘But Nobody Came’ [UPDATE]

Maybe next time? Important Update, 7:50PM: Kirk just noticed that since we first posted this, someone has mysteriously altered the sign: Maybe it was Sans.

Your VR Apathy Is Entirely Understandable

First impression in a room full of people playing virtual reality games: these people look goofy, and the games they’re playing look dull. Then you put on the headset. With the headset on, wow, some of them are so impressive! This is how it is with VR, and let’s not pretend otherwise. These games do…

Not every game at this year’s GDC is a VR game! Here’s five minutes of Kingdom running on an Xbox One. This side-scrolling strategy game has a great look, as our Nathan Grayson explained last fall. Here, I’m playing a newer build at a showcase for indies coming to Xbox One. Kingdom is slated for…

Eight Of The Best Oculus Rift Games I’ve Played

Of the 41 launch-window games for Oculus Rift – 30 of which will be out on launch day – I reckon I’ve played slightly over half of them, including 10 in one day on Monday. Some of the stuff I’ve seen recently is so much more exciting and impressive than VR games were a few…

Nintendo Just Made A Maddening Change To Mario Maker‘s P-Switch

When Nintendo updated Super Mario Maker last week, it secretly tweaked the way P-Switches work in the game. It’s causing headaches for everyone. Traditionally, the P-Switch is used to swap solid blocks into coins and vice versa. But more complicated stages have found uses familiar to anyone who’s ventured into kaizo-style levels or the expert…

I Think My Minecraft Character Had A Dream The Other Night

Over the weekend, after months of pressure from my children, I started playing Minecraft on my iPhone. The children play it on the iPad, in creative mode, trundling around in unlimited diamond armor. Being an adult, I settled into survival mode: spawned onto the savanna, got slaughtered by monsters of the night for a while,…