I spoke at GDC 2019 and gave a short talk at the Animation Microtalks alongside talented animators from studios like Blizzard and BioWare. Our talks, including my own on the beauty of idle animations, are now live and free to see on YouTube. Give it a watch!
Last year’s Spider-Man on PS4 offers one of the most sprawling recreations of Manhattan ever realized in a video…
Journey to the Savage Planet was a bit of a surprise when it was announced at the most recent Game Awards. The…
In some ways, development studio Remedy’s upcoming action game Control has slid under the radar. After an…
Devil May Cry 5 is a fever dance of slashes, air-steps, and ball-crushingly powerful grapples—a bloody monster mash…
The production on Nightdive Studios’ remake of the PC classic System Shock hasn’t exactly been smooth. Kickstarted…
Not so long ago, Overwatch was a poster child for toxicity run rampant in competitive multiplayer games. People…
My friend Frank Cifaldi, producer of many retro game collections like SNK 40th Anniversary, sums up his company’s philosophy in two sentences in a GDC session today.
The strategy game Into The Breach is elegant in its simplicity, but that’s because its designers had to scrap…
The retro-themed, hand-animated indie darling Cuphead is headed to Switch on April 18, and its developer is excited…
Cult classic Vampire: the Masquerade– Bloodlines is getting a sequel. The 2004 roleplaying game left a lasting…
After cracking jokes on stage during the Game Developers Choice and IGF awards at GDC last night, Double Fine boss…
“I’m not anti-union, but I don’t really think we need them, right?” said Double Fine head Tim Schafer while hosting y…
Divinity Original Sin 2 had a disastrous production, according to director Swen Vincke, who said in a postmortem panel at the Game Developers Conference in San Francisco that they didn’t finish the writing until months before the game came out. They even changed a chunk of Sebille’s origin story one week before… Read more
This week at the Game Developers Conference in San Francisco, Valve announced a series of changes coming soon to…
The technical director of Bluepoint Games, the tech wizards behind the Shadow of the Colossus remake, just said he would show the GDC audience “what’s next,” and then just showed this slide instead. He did say that its next project would be more than a remaster or remake—more of a “re-envisioning.”
Another game you can find around GDC is the hilarious Sloppy Forgeries. Using just a few sizes of paintbrush, you have to recreate a masterpiece in about two minutes. Very clever game! Feel free to guess which shitty fake was mine.
This week is the Game Developers Conference in San Francisco. The conference features two awards shows, the Game…
Jesse Snyder, the creator of Call of Duty’s Zombies mode, sacrificed sleep and faced internal pushback when making…
“Hey Gooch, why don’t you make Tetris with music?” — Tetsuya Mizuguchi’s recollection at GDC of how The Tetris Company’s Henk Rogers pitched him on the creation of Tetris Effect.
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