There are games that let us fulfill our fantasies of pointing off into the distant horizon and follow our curiosity. They let us traverse, on and off the beaten track, to discover what lies just beyond our vision. Games like Skyrim or Breat...

Bertil Hörberg is probably the only Swedish name I know. I can't pronounce it to save my life, but it's a name that's been at the forefront of my mind when it comes to the games industry. Hörberg, if you are unaware, is the creato...

Cory Barlog, the director and recognizable face behind God of War, has won almost every Game of the Year award known to man. The celebrated title has dominated every award show it's been a part of, from last year's Game Awards to last week'...

It wasn’t a surprise that Google announced Stadia, its game streaming platform. Rumors had been swirling for a while that the internet giant was jumping into the console war. Those rumors were enough to bring in the biggest names in t...

It seems the rumors were true. Vampire: The Masquerade - Bloodlines 2 was just announced by Paradox Interactive at GDC tonight. The game will be a follow-up to the 2004 game with original narrative designer Brian Mitsoda returning. This new...

Epic is doing whatever it can to make its presence felt among third-party PC storefronts. Early on, its tactic of choice has been to wrap up high-profile games to timed-exclusive contracts. Yesterday, Epic announced 16 more games that ...

Every year in spring, thousands of developers, industry insiders, and gaming enthusiasts flock to San Francisco to clog the already busy downtown streets for the Game Developers Conference. Unlike the more fan-facing shows, like PAX or E3, ...

Everyone wants to play ball with Epic. Why wouldn't they? As far as third-party PC games storefronts and launchers go, Epic is the most favorable option. Its 12 percent revenue cut is vastly favorable to what Valve currently offers with Ste...

Atari's strange little entry into the modern console market, the Atari VCS, has unfortunately been hit with another delay. The crowdfunded console has been pushed back in order to put a little more juice under the hood, with a new release w...

Last year, Google and Ubisoft teamed up for Project Stream -- an experiment in streaming Assassin's Creed Odyssey through Chrome browsers. Many predicted this was a glimpse into the future for Google gaming. They were right. Today, at...

Otherside Entertainment has finally offered us a look at the long-developed sequel to one of the creepiest sci-fi games of all time, System Shock 3. The short teaser lets us take a glimpse within a futuristic locale, before bringing us face...

Google is certainly setting itself up for something big in the gaming industry. Not only did it recently hire a major name in the form of ex-Ubisoft and EA bigwig Jade Raymond, but it also revealed designs for an awful-looking game controll...

Google has long been on the fringe of mainstream games, hanging around but not quite making its presence felt. For instance, when virtual reality headsets like Rift and Vive were launching, Google released a relatively cheap smartphone VR ...

Alright, keep this on the downlow and the hush-hush, but the word on the street with all the cool kids is that Microsoft are planning to launch Xbox Live on Nintendo Switch, alongside iOS and Android mobile platforms.The news comes after th...

Rieko Kodama is widely considered as the first lady of RPGs. Having worked with Sega for nearly 40 years now, Kodama has helped bring to life such series as Phantasy Star, Alex Kidd, and Skies of Arcadia. To say her work is classic is under...

If you thought we were done awarding games that came out in 2018, you've got another thing coming as the Game Developers Choice Awards nominees were announced today. Similar to the Oscars and various guild award ceremonies in the movie indu...

Most people who are interested in Golem probably won't be familiar with its developer. Golem is made by Longbow Games, a Canadian studio that has spent nearly 20 years making historic-set strategy titles. This isn't like those. B...

Two minutes into my GDC appointment to play Downward Spiral: Horus Station (it has nothing to do with the Nine Inch Nails album, I checked), I floated painstakingly slowly across a small room. It was my own fault. I had weakly pushed o...

When we first learned about Mutant Year Zero: Road to Eden (still a too-long name), it was with a cinematic trailer that introduced the world but not the gameplay. The duck and pig protagonist duo in some sort of apocalyptic wasteland ...

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...

Back in late 2014, E-Line Media released Never Alone -- a gorgeous platformer with the ambitious goal of teaching players about an indigenous Alaskan people. It wasn't perfect, but it did what it hoped to. Never Alone used video g...

Speaking at this week's GDC in San Francisco, studio Nightdive have stated that their crowdfunded remake of 1994's creepy techno-adventure, System Shock, which went on hiatus earlier this year, has been pushed back to a tentative 2020 relea...

Like the hordes of zombie antagonists it features, Dying Light refuses to die. There's a passionate community that keeps the game alive, and Techland is happy to oblige these players with continued support. Before a GDC demo in San Fra...

As far as video games about a boy (along with his pet rock and backpack-confined giraffe) rescuing his dad from a madman who turns old folks into hot dogs go, The Adventure Pals seems to be one of the very best. Maybe it's the only on...