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Former Battlefield Devs Making A Monster Game With A Cool New Perspective

Former designers from the Battlefield series are looking to try something a little different. In Project Wight, players control an intelligent monster whose kind has been driven to near extinction by humanity.

The World's Greatest Scientists Kick Each Other's Ass In This 2D Fighting Game

Luke Plunkett

4/10/16 6:39pm

Oh man. Remember that idea to make a 2D fighter out of some of the world’s greatest scientists? Well, your dreams came true, it’s now a functional and playable video game.

Patrick Klepek

2/10/16 12:45pm

If you’re having frame rate and hitching issues with the PS4 version of Firewatch, you’re not alone, and a patch is coming. How soon the technical problems will be addressed isn’t clear. Some folks have suggested turning off auto-saving? It appears some of the issues are rooted in the game using Unity.

Unity Just Keeps Looking Better And Better

Luke Plunkett

11/12/15 9:40am

There once was a time I’d use the word “Unity”—as in the massively-popular game engine— almost dismissively. Like, “oh, this game looks so bad it may as well have been made in Unity”. Those days are long gone, and I now regret them.

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These Short Ninja Slayer Games Are More Fun Than the Anime

Richard Eisenbeis

9/29/15 7:30am

This week I decided to catch up on Studio Trigger’s newest anime, Ninja Slayer. And I had more fun with these official Ninja Slayer Unity games than I have watching the anime so far.

You Can Now Play The First Level Of Super Mario 64 In HD In Your Browser

Leon Hurley

3/27/15 7:30am

Got a screen your boss can’t see? You’ll be fine then, just have a spreadsheet or something ready to pull up sharpish.

Fan Remake Shut Down. This Is Never A Good Idea.

Luke Plunkett

11/24/14 9:30pm

Vampire: The Masquerade – Bloodlines was a very interesting game that, for all its many problems (it's kinda broken), has a core of very loyal fans. Because the original game is a mess, some of those fans wanted to remake the game and clean it up. And they would have got away with it too, if it wasn't for games…

Five Minutes of Assassin's Creed Unity At Its Most Ridiculous

Patricia Hernandez

11/24/14 7:30pm

Things get pretty hilarious when you stop trying to be a master assassin in Unity.

Game Of The Year: 420BLAZEIT Is, Ahem, One Of The Games Of The Year

Luke Plunkett

11/16/14 7:30pm

Mountain Dew. Doritos. Noscopes. Sonic. Game of the Year (aka 420BLAZEIT) by Andy Sum has all this and more.

Stephen Totilo

10/22/14 1:00pm

Former EA CEO and Wire fan John Riccitiello has a new job. He's now going to run Unity, the company whose game engine powers many popular indie games on mobile and console platforms. Outgoing CEO Dave Helgason announced the change today.

Minecraft Creator Debuts His Latest Creation, Cliffhorse

Mike Fahey

6/08/14 2:00pm

Technically his first commercial game since Minecraft took the world by storm, Markus "Notch" Persson's Cliffhorse puts players in control of a horse near some cliffs. Well, hills mostly, but Hillhorse sounds silly.

Someone Made A Virtual Reality Tron Light Cycle Game

Chris Person

4/10/14 7:00pm

If you're like me, the concept of a VR Light Cycle game from Tron was a dream you always had as a kid. Well now you're in luck!

Leaked Images Reveal One Of This Fall's Two Assassin's Creed Games

Jason Schreier

3/19/14 1:16pm

One of this fall's big Assassin's Creed games, called or code-named Unity, is set at least partly in 18th-century Paris, according to early leaked screenshots obtained by Kotaku.

All Work And No Play Makes Jack A Dull Boy

Steve Marinconz

3/17/14 5:30pm

All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy. All work and no play makes Jack s dull boy. All work and no play makes Jack a dult boy. All work and no,play makes Jack a Dull Boy.

I Don't Remember Text Adventures Being This Hard

Steve Marinconz

1/21/14 7:15pm

A few game developers decided that for some reason, Unity, the 3D game engine, is the perfect medium for a text adventure. Amazingly, it turns out that they were right.

The Most Delightful Game Development Engine Ever.

Mike Fahey

12/16/13 11:43am

Introduced in 2005 as a Mac game development tool, Unity has grown into a multi-platform monster, used to make games for everything from Facebook to consoles — but none of that really mattered, until it got an official anime mascot. Meet Unity-Chan.

The Simplest Strategy Games Are Often The Best

Luke Plunkett

10/17/13 11:30pm

I have spent hours today playing a strategy game on my PC. Hours. It wasn't Civ V. It wasn't Rome II. It wasn't even Company of Heroes 2. It was a tiny little game called Kingdoms.

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