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Dreamfall Chapters: The Longest Journey concludes Kickstarter at $1.5M
Dreamfall Chapters’ $850,000 Kickstarter goal concluded at nearly twice that yesterday, with a final pledge count of $1,538,425. The 3D adventure game…
Never break flow – UI design in Driver: San Francisco
Driver: San Francisco is an exemplary game, argues Eric Swain, because its interface allows players to set their own pace, ensuring they’re…
Learning not to blindly follow the analytics
Laralyn McWilliams (Free Realms) writes about how her cancer diagnosis taught her that metrics aren’t the answer to making better games, but…
Tomb Raider PC patch addresses hairy Nvidia issues
Tomb Raider received a PC patch this weekend, with fixes for the Nvidia-associated stability issues high on the agenda. The patch notes…
SimCity Is Inherently Broken, Let’s Not Let This Go
EA reports that SimCity is slowly getting into a state where it’s playable. Many of the launch issues are getting sorted, and…
Zynga: "all games are derived from other games"
Social game make Zynga – often accused of ripping off other’s ideas – has insisted everyone copies everyone. “All games are derived…
Would the real Ken Levine kindly stand up?
To reach the Boston HQ of Irrational Games, you walk from a subway station through a small park. At the far end…
Tomb Raider ascends to the peak of this week’s UK charts
Lara Croft is the leader of the UK pack for the first time in nearly seven years, and she’s there in some…
Happy Wars has two million cheerful warmongers
Free-to-play Xbox Live game Happy Wars has reached 2 million soldiers on its leaderboards, developer Toylogic announced today. “We always continue to…
Get Pumped: PISTON Preordering Open At SXSW
Hey RPSers! I have had three cups of tea, EXCESSIVE amounts of sugar and have bags of energy for news today: and…
Danish TV channel sorry for using Assassin’s Creed screenshot to illustrate Syria news report
Whoops! A Danish telly channel has been forced to apologise for using a screenshot of Assassin’s Creed as a backdrop for a…
The Piston living room PC costs $1000, launching Holiday 2013
The Xi3 Corporation opened up pre-orders for its upcoming Piston game PC over the weekend, while detailing extra information about the device…
UK chart: Tomb Raider biggest launch of the year so far
Tomb Raider is the UK’s biggest launch of the year so far.The reboot is in top spot, and, according to UK sales…
Borderlands 2: Gearbox teases sixth playable character
Borderlands 2 will get a sixth playable character.At the end of a panel session at SXSW (attended by Polygon), developer Gearbox showed…
SimCity: Maxis says core problem "behind us", crashes down 92%
Maxis is slowly but surely getting SimCity up to scratch.Overnight Maxis chief Lucy Bradshaw said the “core problem” with simply getting in…
Tomb Raider PC patched to address Nvidia, Intel, TressFX issues
Crystal Dynamics has patched the PC version of Tomb Raider.The update includes fixes for start-up issues on machines with Nvidia and Intel…
Valve-backed Xi3 Piston console starts at $1000
The Xi3 Piston console – backed by Valve as a third-party Steam Box – starts at $1000.Pre-order and you get $100 off…
The secrets of Disgaea’s decade-long success
Gamasutra speaks to Sohei Niikawa, the creator of the cult-hit strategy franchise, which marks its 10-year anniversary in 2013, about what he…