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This Week in Video Game Criticism: Remembering Iwata
This Week in Video Game Criticism: Remembering Iwata
This week, our partnership with game criticism site Critical Distance brings us picks from Kris Ligman on topics ranging from tributes to Nintendo's Satoru Iwata to what games can still learn from the field of photography.
July 20, 2015
What's next for Nintendo? Industry analysts weigh in
What's next for Nintendo? Industry analysts weigh in
How will the death of Nintendo's CEO and president change the future of the company? How can they possibly replace him? We asked several industry analysts for their take.
July 20, 2015
Shenmue 3 breaks another Kickstarter record with $6.3M raised
Shenmue 3 breaks another Kickstarter record with $6.3M raised
Last month Yu Suzuki's Shenmue 3 Kickstarter campaign became the fastest video game Kickstarter to hit $1 million raised, and now it's wrapped up as the most-funded video game Kickstarter yet.
July 20, 2015
Capcom taking cues from F2P games in designing Street Fighter V
Capcom taking cues from F2P games in designing Street Fighter V
Capcom seems to be taking a page from popular F2P games like League of Legends by designing Street Fighter V with dual in-game currencies: one earned by playing the game, one bought with real money.
July 20, 2015
Seth Killian joins Radiant to pitch in on new F2P fighting game
Seth Killian joins Radiant to pitch in on new F2P fighting game
More than a year after leaving Sony Santa Monica to 'do his own thing,' the fighting gamesman has popped up at Radiant Entertainment hyping the studio's upcoming F2P fighting game Rising Thunder.
July 20, 2015
Nintendo and DigiPen team up to bring Singapore devs' games to 3DS
Nintendo and DigiPen team up to bring Singapore devs' games to 3DS
Singaporean devs will have their chance to see their games become downloadable Nintendo 3DS titles, with government backing.
July 20, 2015
Threes devs double daily income with free version
Threes devs double daily income with free version
It was Apple's 2014 game of the year on iPhone, but it was beaten in the free market by clone-game 2048. Now, going free proves a win for Threes.
July 20, 2015
Video: Deconstructing the hand-crafted art and design of Gorogoa
Video: Deconstructing the hand-crafted art and design of Gorogoa
Indie Jason Roberts speaks at GDC 2014 about how he built Gorogoa to be solvable no matter what language you speak by designing it to rely on players' natural discovery in lieu of guided tutorials.
July 20, 2015
Get a job: Hi-Rez Studios seeks a Character Rigger
Get a job: Hi-Rez Studios seeks a Character Rigger
The studio responsible for Smite and Tribes: Ascend needs an experienced rigger to work with the modeling and animation teams at Hi-Rez Studios' Alpharetta, Georgia headquarters.
July 20, 2015
Sponsored: A tower defense-style game in Unity (part 2)
Sponsored: A tower defense-style game in Unity (part 2)
In the second entry of this Unity tutorial, a Microsoft tech evangelist walks you through to process of creating a tower defense-style game.
July 20, 2015
Rust devs do it again: Gender to be randomly assigned
Rust devs do it again: Gender to be randomly assigned
After assigning players randomized races in March -- which was intended not just as realism, but also a social experiment -- a new update will assign gender randomly.
July 17, 2015
Stephen Colbert goes Twine
Stephen Colbert goes Twine
Escape from the Man-Sized Cabinet captures the show's silly humor and showcases the increasing popularity of bite-sized text games for broad audiences.
July 17, 2015