Those of you who have been following the ongoing Alternate Reality Game surrounding the release of Portal 2 undoubtedly know how insane it has become. For those who haven’t, here’s a basic scaffold: to promote the upcoming launch of Portal 2 on April 19th, Valve has created a very odd variety of …

And Notch is bolder than I thought. The “game” will officially deploy on 11/11/11, the same day as Bethesda’s much anticipated Skyrim. In addition, the next update (1.5) will add weather effects.  You can read the official anoucement here.
Does anyone else think this is a risky move? Or is there …

It might be too much to say that I feel bad for Hi-Rez, but it seems like they’ve been continually making Global Agenda freer and freer. First they removed the monthly subscription in favor of an incremental-expansion model akin to Guild Wars’. They just sent out an announcement today proclaiming …

Hi. I’m Syn, and this is my corner. I want to talk about games. To be more exact, with each of these articles, I would like to take a specific title and use it as a point of analysis of its underlying ideas or mechanics, almost as if it were …

Just a heads up for all of you Super Meat Boy fanatics like myself, the new update is live on Steam. It includes the Super Meat World level portal, which is basically a compendium of custom made levels and chapters designed by users and other dev teams, in addition to …

Capcom appears to be stuck in the past when it comes to the Resident Evil series. Two years after the release of Resident Evil 5, everything on the RE radar seems to be revolving around re-releases and going back to the long destroyed Raccoon City.  Resident Evil 4 and Code …

Hooray for trans-media. The marketing team over at Zenimax Bethesda seems to be trying to hit all bases with RAGE–a comic book series via Dark Horse and now a newly announced novelization through Del Rey. It’s only a matter of time before the RAGE serialized television show comes about, followed …

When I got notified through Steam’s RSS feed that the DarkSpore Beta was on, it got me mildly excited. I have no real preconceptions about this game, save for the fact that it seems sort of like Defense of the Ancients and Diablo put together, but with more tentacles or …

Recently, Jakub Dvorsky, head of the studio that brought you fine indie titles such as Machinarium and Samorost sat down with PC Gamer to discuss his next three games. They all look very weird, as one might expect. The interview is quite interesting. Dvorsky talks about his background in animation …

 
I saw Guild Wars 2 at PAX East this year and it continues to look incredible, both visually and mechanically. Unfortunately I was not able to make it to ArenaNet’s panel on designing next gen fantasy MMOs because the auditorium filled up way before I got there. Thankfully, ANet has …