In a talk about game design philosophy at Reboot Develop 2018, SimTower, Seaman, and Odama creator Yoot Saito revealed that he once worked on an unusual Nintendo DS game codenamed Mario Motors. Saito told some heartwarming stories about his...

One of the things I'm most interested in hearing about is how creators, well, create -- how they generate ideas and then go about bringing them to life. Everyone seems to have their own personal method. In the case of Double Fine's Tim Scha...

Steam Spy has been a tremendously helpful tool over the years, offering estimates on how individual games are selling and how many people are actively playing them, among other insights. That changes this week in light of a Steam client upd...

There's enjoyment to be found in Boss Key Productions' fast-paced multiplayer shooter LawBreakers, but it failed to resonate with a large enough audience. Without players, there is no game. The studio has broken its recent silence with a st...

Rogue Legacy took a lot of people, myself included, by surprise. It wasn't perfect, but as a debut title in the roguelike genre, it was a fantastic experience. Naturally, I was excited when the developers at Cellar Door Games announced...

Every year in the lead up to the Game Developers Conference, a game jam is held on a 52-hour train ride that goes from Chicago to San Francisco. The jam, affectionately called Train Jam, is something I look forward to following along with o...

Sometimes you have to look backward to get excited about something in the future. Brazilian developer Joymasher hopes you're willing to do that for Blazing Chrome. After spending half an hour with the game, I'd say anyone who pines for thos...

Gameumentary is proud to share with you our first feature length documentary covering the Darksiders franchise. The documentary is over an hour and a half long and covers everything from Darksiders I, II, Jesper Kyd's involvement in the ser...

Paragon may be on the way out, but Epic Games is making the most of the MOBA's demise. It's giving away a bunch of game assets for developers to use as they see fit in Unreal Engine 4, including the "base meshes, textures, skins, animations...

Former PlayStation head-honcho Jack Tretton has announced plans to start up a new company, with aims to provide both financial and managerial assistance to small studios on the independent circuit.Interactive Gaming Ventures will use Tretto...

Blazing Chrome sells itself pretty darn quickly. It's an authentic-looking retro run-and-gun game from Oniken and Odallus creator Joymasher in which one player is a resistance fighter and the other is a robot with a mohawk who's helping to ...

Even when it was kicking my ass and pushing me close to my breaking point, Cuphead was an absolute highlight last year. After dutifully following its development for years, the run-and-gun game lived up to sky-high expectations. It was gorg...

Carving out a sustainable piece of the PC digital distribution market won't be quick or easy, but I'm looking forward to seeing Kongregate try exactly that later this summer. The popular browser game portal has announced Kartridge, "a new c...

Metal Gear Survive is a strange game in and of itself, but the context surrounding Metal Gear as a whole makes it even stranger. We're stuck in this messy transitional period between the Kojima-led games of old and whatever direction Konami...

This past week Gameumentary released its latest Side Feature documentary covering the early career of Joe Madureira in comics and games.  This Side Feature marks the beginning of Gameumentary's coverage on the Darksiders franchise and ...

This is a big one to wake up to. When I read the news I thought it was the other way around, but THQ Nordic, the company that single handedly resurrected THQ in 2016, has acquired Koch Media. That name sounds familiar right? Well it owns De...

Following his work on Hyper Light Drifter, Teddy Dief left Heart Machine in May 2016 to take on a creative director role at Square Enix Montreal, the studio known for Hitman Go, Lara Croft Go, and Deus Ex Go. For almost two years now, he's ...

Between a prototype for Breath of the Wild that resembled the original NES classic and concept imagery featuring Link riding a motorcycle, playing electric guitar, and staring down a UFO, Nintendo sure brought some fun material to its 2017 ...

I was just writing about how Image & Form was rapidly making a name for itself, and here we are. As announced this morning by Image & Form CEO Brjann Sigurgeirsson, the company has merged with another leader in the Swedish gaming in...

Nintendo has one of the richest histories of any company in the game industry. I mean you could probably stretch that qualifier to "any industry" and get away with it -- they're that prolific, dating all the way back to the 19th century. Fr...

Well this sure is a fine way to start off the day! Ojiro "Moppin" Fumoto, the creator of Downwell, has taken a job at Nintendo. "I'll do my best," he said in tweet. Downwell is a roguelike action game about strategically falling and it fee...

Last year Resogun maker Housemarque revealed it was getting out of arcade game development, much to the disappointment (but also understanding) of fans. The studio cited "lackluster sales" for Nex Machina and an industry trend toward "multi...

Hey Destructoid fans, it's almost time for a new video game documentary from your friends at Gameumentary. Maybe you forgot because it's been a while, but Destructoid's parent company, Enthusiast Gaming, helped fund our Kickstarter campaign...

A new Liverpool-based studio is born. Alan McDermott, Nigel Kershaw, and Stuart Trevor of Evolution Studios, the developer of the well-received MotorStorm series and the more tumultuous Driveclub, have formed Wushu Studios. The move comes a...

As many are already aware, Monster Hunter: World will not be simultaneously launching on PC alongside the console ports. While we received that news last week, we didn't have a concrete reason for why. Speculation was that Capcom didn't wan...