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ESA holding student competition, winners to be shown at E3
The Entertainment Software Association is launching an E3 College Game Competition this year, designed to spotlight some solid student game creations at…
Bullet Run empties its clip, shuts down servers March 8
Bullet Run, Sony Online Entertainment’s free-to-play online shooter, will be shut down on March 8. All membership billing has been concluded as…
Dead Space 3: Your Questions Answered
A couple weeks ago, we asked you for Dead Space 3 questions, which we’d forward along to Visceral Games for a future…
GameStop establishes $10 million mobile game fund
GameStop’s mobile platform, Kongregate, now has a $10 million fund to help independent developers in the free-to-play mobile arena. The fund will…
The Joystiq Indie Pitch: Pocket Fleet
Indie developers are the starving artists of the video-game world, often brilliant and innovative, but also misunderstood, underfunded and more prone to…
After Burner Climax coming to iOS
After Burner Climax, Sega’s renewal of the franchise about flying fighter planes in Sega-blue skies, is continuing its journey to progressively smaller…
Rockstar: Grand Theft Auto 5 delay for quality purposes only
Grand Theft Auto 5 has a release date of September 17, which is later than its original launch window of spring this…
When Video Game Glitches Go Wild
Evidently some people just want to watch the world ragdoll….
50% off Select Final Fantasy Games for the Series’ 25-Year Anniversary
Twenty-five years ago, our company launched a game called Final Fantasy. It was the result of a lot of hard work and…
Blog: Games aren’t good at having a ‘plot,’ and that’s just fine
By the classic college textbook definition, games fall flat on their faces when it comes to plot. But that’s just in their…
L.A. Noire gag reel presents the uncanny valley of bloopers
Depth Anaylsis, the company behind the MotionScan tech used in L.A. Noire, published this gag reel featuring blooper cast recordings, but all…
Assassin’s Creed considered co-op, but it ‘didn’t fit’ the story
“Before we knew about the Desmond story and Animus link, we had a huge co-op component in there,” Assassin’s Creed 3 mission…
The Halo trilogy, Fez and Dyad outed on the Steam database
Update: It looks like Halo isn’t coming after all. “We currently do not have plans to release any ‘Halo’ titles on Steam,”…
Sony cuts ties with the fighting game studio it helped build
Though Sony incubated it and fostered its growth, the developer of last year’s PlayStation All-Stars: Battle Royale is no longer a PlayStation-exclusive…
One of Xbox Indie Games’ most successful devs explains what went wrong
CastleMiner developer Thomas Steinke has been with Xbox Live Indie Games since basically the beginning. Here, he explains what wrong with XBLIG…
TA Plays: ‘Table Top Racing’ – A Micro Racing Game
Earlier this afternoon, Eli and I sat down with Table Top Racing [$2.99]. If the name didn’t clue you in, it’s a…
Sony and Superbot part ways, Superbot ‘excited’ about its future
Sony and Superbot Entertainment, the developer behind PS3 and Vita brawler PlayStation All-Stars Battle Royale, are no longer an item. Sony confirms…
Now Playing: February 4-10, 2013
Dismember the necromorph nightmare again, and this time bring a friend, in Dead Space 3… Choose your platform to jump to a…