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Gamasutra's Best of 2015: Alex Wawro's Top 5 Games
Gamasutra's Best of 2015: Alex Wawro's Top 5 Games
From Bloodborne to Her Story, Gamasutra editor Alex Wawro continues our end-of-the-year series by sharing his thoughts on some of his favorite games of 2015. Brace for opinions.
Dec. 16, 2015
CastAR offers refunds to Kickstarter backers still owed hardware
CastAR offers refunds to Kickstarter backers still owed hardware
CastAR Kickstarter backers who pledged enough to merit receiving a CastAR developer headset can instead get a refund and the consumer version of CastAR at no charge in 2017.
Dec. 16, 2015
Researcher Claims To Jailbreak PS4, Posts FS Dump, PIDs Online
Researcher Claims To Jailbreak PS4, Posts FS Dump, PIDs Online
Sony’s Play Station 4 is one of the world’s most popular and most selling gaming consoles with more than 10 million users. In a recent press release, Sony
Dec. 15, 2015
Get a job: Hi-Rez Studios seeks an experienced Character Rigger
Get a job: Hi-Rez Studios seeks an experienced Character Rigger
The studio responsible for Tribes: Ascend and Smite needs an experienced character rigger to take a senior position at Hi-Rez Studios' Alpharetta, Georgia HQ and work on their new project.
Dec. 15, 2015
Hear how Bloodborne's music was made at GDC 2016
Hear how Bloodborne's music was made at GDC 2016
With GDC 2016 coming up, organizers are excited to announce new talks for the show that will take you behind the music of Bloodborne and inside the chart-topping success of Dots.
Dec. 15, 2015
2,489 days after launch, Noby Noby Boy has finally been completed
2,489 days after launch, Noby Noby Boy has finally been completed
Katamari Damacy creator Keita Takahashi's strange, stretching, solar system spanning, exploration game Noby Noby Boy has finally been completed.
Dec. 15, 2015
Report: Cut loose from Konami, Kojima is starting his own studio
Report: Cut loose from Konami, Kojima is starting his own studio
There's a brief report published (in Japanese) on the Nikkei website this week that claims Metal Gear Solid creator Hideo Kojima has officially left Konami and is working to establish his own studio.
Dec. 15, 2015
Bungie experiments with selling level boosts for Destiny
Bungie experiments with selling level boosts for Destiny
The folks at Bungie have quietly added Destiny level boosts to the PlayStation Store, which means Destiny players can now pay to skip through a large chunk of the game.
Dec. 15, 2015
Survey: American men and women play games in roughly equal measure
Survey: American men and women play games in roughly equal measure
The Pew Research Center reports that, contrary to popular perception, men and women who play games in the U.S. do so in roughly equal measure -- 50 percent to 48 percent, respectively.
Dec. 15, 2015
GPUOpen is AMD's new open-source game dev toolset
GPUOpen is AMD's new open-source game dev toolset
Graphics hardware firm AMD announced a 2016 initiative at its Radeon Technologies Group Summit earlier this month that will see the company launching a new open-source development toolkit: GPUOpen.
Dec. 15, 2015
Disembodied hands scale a cliff in new Crytek VR title, The Climb
Disembodied hands scale a cliff in new Crytek VR title, The Climb
Crytek has announced that it will be supporting the Oculus Rift by releasing its new VR title, The Climb, exclusively on the device.
Dec. 15, 2015
UK organized crime unit arrest edu-game hack suspect
UK organized crime unit arrest edu-game hack suspect
Officers from the UK's South East Regional Organised Crime Unit (SEROCU) have arrested a man who they believe was involved in the recent VTech hack.
Dec. 15, 2015