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...

Early this year as game-of-the-year lists were still coming out, CJ spoke about The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild's potential victory lap come March 2018. The open-world adventure game was showing up all over the place, and it had jus...

Everyone knows the song "You're a kid now, you're a squid now, you're a kid, you're a squid... etc". But things could have been oh-so-different for arena-shooter Splatoon, had Nintendo gone with its original concept of an army of rabbits.Sp...

Human Head Studios, a company that has been around for 20 years, is known by most people for two very specific things: It released Prey which is remembered fondly, and it started making Prey 2 until Bethesda put the kibosh on...

The Nindies Spring Showcase this morning gave us all a sneak peek at the hot indie titles coming to the Switch in 2018. Bomb Chicken and West of Loathing are the top of my must-buy list, but will they be popular enough to dethrone...

Dreams are the stuff of infinity, the only real limitation being the bounds of your unconscious imagination. That's not much of a limitation at all. Your brain could have anything in store on any given night -- from the blanket warmth of th...

"Oh, you actually know the rules of golf? We don't. We don't know anything about golf. Everything is golf." These four sentences -- or some variation of them -- were most of the conversation I had with guys from Triband, the developer behin...

It’s been a long time since we’ve heard anything about One Finger Death Punch 2, but it looks like Silver Dollar Games is finally ready to show it off at this year's GDC, as part of the Indie Megabooth showcase. The first game i...

Sanctum and Goat Simulator developer Coffee Stain Studios is getting the word out for its next game, Satisfactory, which may or may not be about building things on an alien planet. We'll have to see! Aside from the name and logo, all we hav...

Spike Chunsoft, the studio responsible for series such as Danganronpa and Fire Pro Wrestling, will announce four new titles in March, as part of a press conference taking place at GDC 2018.The conference is being held in part to celebrate t...

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 imagine, for a certain portion of our audience, The Legend of Zelda: Breath of Wild winning another Game of the Year award is the last thing they want to talk about. Afterall, it was named the best game of 2017 by the Destructoi...

Leave it to the IGF to remind me just how jam-packed my backlog is these days. The finalists are here for the 2018 Independent Games Festival, including nods to recent favorites like Cuphead, Tacoma, Tooth and Tail, Night in the Woods, Heat...

By now, you've hopefully seen and enjoyed some of the fun Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild production anecdotes to come out of Nintendo's 2017 Game Developers Conference presentation. A couple of them -- the team's delightfully lo-fi pr...

The easiest time to ignore licensed games is when they're released in step with whatever (typically bad) movie or children's cartoon they're based on. Even when they're based on a good one. Did you know there's a John Wick game? Do you care...

Ah, World War II. The good ol' Dubya Dubya Dos. It's been such a long time since unstable right-wing reactionaries preaching ethno-nationalism wrested control of a major world power, threatening the stability of the entire world, that we're...

I don't understand The Sexy Brutale. I played for an hour while chitchatting with design director Charles Griffiths. After that hour, I felt like I was almost there, like everything had almost clicked. But then the demo ended and I was left...