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Hell Yeah! engulfs iOS in a Pocket Inferno
Arkedo Studio’s hellacious downloadable game Hell Yeah! is spinning off, as rabbits in giant sawblade vehicles are wont to do. Hell Yeah!…
Layoffs at EA Montreal and Los Angeles as gargantuan company manages console transition
EA has let go an undisclosed number of staff at its Montreal and Los Angeles bases.In a blog post called “Transition is…
Which indies are working on PS4 games, and why?
What wasn’t very well publicized during this week’s PS4 presentation was the role that indie developers will play in the launch. Gamasutra…
PSA: VVVVVV now flipping around Linux via Steam
Terry Cavanagh’s reorientation-oriented platformer VVVVVV is now available on Linux by way of Steam, Cavanagh announced earlier today. The port requires Ubuntu…
Unity co-founder Nicholas Francis leaving to make games
Unity Technologies, licensor and proprietor of the popular 3D engine Unity, co-founder and COO Nicholas Francis revealed he will step down from…
Plants vs. Zombies goes free on iOS this week
For the first time in the game’s history on iOS, Plants vs. Zombies has dropped to the low price of completely free….
Black Ops 2 free this weekend, cheap on Steam
Call of Duty: Black Ops 2 is free-to-play this weekend on Steam and it’s on sale for 33 percent off, $40 for…
StarCraft 2: Heart of the Swarm lets you recover lost games, take command during replays
StarCraft 2 community manager Kevin Johnson produced the above video, a quick rundown of some major additions to the StarCraft 2: Heart…
NMA TV lends its unique perspective, animation to PS4 event
Taiwanese media giant NMA has weighed in on the PS4 announcement in the above video. We aren’t sure we necessarily agree with…
Learn how to rush rockets in Halo 4’s Landfall map
Here’s a video for the Landfall map in Halo 4, with is part of the upcoming Majestic Map Pack. The rockets are…
Engage in Gratuitous Space Battles for free this weekend on Steam
Gratuitous Space Battles is pretty much precisely what it says – massive, interstellar dogfighting for basically no reason, aside from the fact…
The Joystiq Indie Pitch: Back to Bed
Indie developers are the starving artists of the video-game world, often brilliant and innovative, but also misunderstood, underfunded and more prone to…
It’s True: 1UP has Reached Its End
A message from the now-former editor-in-chief….
Jonathan Blow bears Witness to getting an indie, PC game on PS4
Jonathan’s Blow’s next mind-melting puzzler has a bright – and colorful – future in the next generation, as he took center stage…
Sony asking PS4 devs to try PS Vita remote play before submission
A major feature of the PlayStation 4 is native remote play support on the Vita for PS4 games. During last night’s presentation,…
Can working with The Pirate Bay work for you?
The developers of indie title Anodyne promoted the game on torrent site The Pirate Bay — and in this blog, they share…
Baldur’s Gate: Enhanced Edition crit-hits Mac on Feb. 22
Mac users eager to get their D20-rolling hands on Baldur’s Gate: Enhanced Edition will be able to do so very soon. The…
Spelunky DLC adds 8 new characters, 24 multiplayer arenas for them to die in
You thought you knew what today’s most exciting news was. You were wrong. Mossmouth has quietly sneaked two items of downloadable Spelunky…