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 …

Nintendo of Japan recently unveiled a new trailer for the Wii game, Pandora’s Tower. The game looks like a mix of character action and Eastern game design hair feathering. Slated for a May 26, 2011 release, Pandora’s Tower will be hitting Japanese Wiis very soon. Nintendo of America remains quiet …

In an effort to help raise money and awareness for the ongoing struggles in the quake-stricken nation of Japan, members of the gaming world including developers, journalists, and fans collaborated on the Gamers Heart Japan mini-documentary. The sixty minute video is a love-letter to the country that brought us Nintendo, …

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 …

At a Tokyo-based event this week, Grasshopper Manufacture hosted an internet livestream charity event to aid earthquake and tsunami victims. While no new games from the studio were announced there were a few interesting bits of information thrown in for good measure. Following the success No More Heroes garnered in …

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 …