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While I didn't get to play mich of the game at GDC a week or back, the parts if the game I played and watched were surprisingly engaging. You can get a better idea of the gameplay from the E3 trailer released last year. https://youtu.be/ZjziW0CBGm4Video can't be loaded because JavaScript is disabled: Afterparty | Gameplay E3 2018[...]

SkyBox Labs’ Stela is described as acinematic, atmospheric platformer which centers around a you g woman who witnesses the final days of a mysterious

The late-stage demo at GDC was hands-off for press, but we did get to watch the absolute destruction the game is capable of at higher difficulties Our hands-on demo was designed around the beginning stages, which are far easier However, they do show off the basics of the game, which are pretty standard. And honestly, that[...]

Tribe Games’ HyperDot is described as a “strikingly minimal action arcade dodge ‘em up,” which mostly translates to frantic flailing with dots. That said,

Family Man is a first-person narrative RPG about the moral descent of a father who owes money to the mob. The game's being developed by Broken Bear Games

Funcom and Petroglyph have announced a release date and price for survival RTS Conan Unconquered, designed to coincide with the start of pre-order sales.

Dead End Job combined the chaotic gameplay of a procedurally generated twin-stick shooter with graphics reminiscent of 90s cartoon Ren and Stimpy. Players

credit// Headup Games Headup Games was at GDC this year to show offthe first-person horror game Silver Chains, which, like many games in the genre, has a strong emphasis on narrative and exploration With a side of jump-scares The demo build at GDC had the player searching for clues and solving puzzles in an abandoned house. The official[...]

credit//11 Bit Studios 11 bit studios announced at GDC that their upcoming RPG Children of Morta, will now launch on all platforms simultaneously this summer The game was initially supposed to release on PC, PS4, and Xbox One late last year, but the release was pushed back to make way for the Nintendo Switch version. As the[...]

11 bit studios is releasing the first paid DLC for Moonlighter this summer. The Between Dimensions DLC fills current dungeons with new creatures,

Make choices that change the game world. Vivid storybook art, transformed by compression and glitch artifacts. A soundtrack organically interwoven with your unique journey. credit// Grinning Pickle I was able to demo the game at GDC last week, during the ID@Xbox Showcase, though the demo build is a seperate scenario from the main game, so I can't exactly provide[...]

Imagine you've just spent several days in San Francisco for the annual Game Developers Conference (GDC) Several thousand of the world's top game developers, artists, programmers, players, etc….you get the idea The event ends normally, and you head to the airport to catch your flight back home to Burbank from SFO As luck would have[...]

This War of Mine: Stories is a more story-based spinoff of 11 bit studios' survival game This War of Mine. Stories focuses much more on the narrative of

And as developer Nick Pearce joked during the ID@Xbox Showcase at GDC this year, The Forgotten City was kept just janky enough to "make players of the Mod feel at home." And The Forgotten City lives up to that promise Walking up stairs is a bit of a dodgy proposition, depending on how you decide to negotiate[...]

credit// Spike Chunsoft Spike Chunsoft has unveiled the pre-order bonuses for Zanki Zero: The Last Beginning at GDC this morning The big pre-order bonus for picking up the story-driven JRPG is a copy of the game's original soundtrack alongside the Day One Edition of the game. Zanki Zero includes full 3D digital graphics, 2D cutscenes, and 3D art[...]

credit// Spike Chunsoft Furyu Corp and Spike Chunsoft announced at GDC today that Crystar is coming to the West on August 27, 2019 for PlayStation 4 and Steam Crystar will be released in the West fully localized with English text and audio, though you can still choose to listen to the Japanese audio if you like[...]

Goichi "Suda51" Suda got his start in games development with Human Entertainment (and now Spike Chunsoft)'s Fire Pro Wrestling franchise way back in 1994.

credit// Spike Chunsoft Spike Chunsoft announced a new game at GDC yesterday, Ai: The Somnium Files, which is a pretty dense suspense game with a complicated plot The game is still in development, so Spike Chunsoft is keeping quite a lot under wraps However, I did get a chance to speak with a few members of the[...]

During the last leg of GDC 2019, Spike Chunsoft pulled out one more reveal for attendees as they announced a new game called AI: The Somnium Files The game looks like an absolute mind trip and we're not entirely sure what to think of it other than we need it in our lives The company[...]

Square Enix has released a feature length film called “The Making of a Tomb Raider.” As you might expect, it’s a Tomb Raider documentary. The film

The Brazilian game development industry has banded together as Brazil Games for GDC 2019 this year, and to celebrate, they've released a GDC highlight reel. Brazil Games is a partnership between the Brazilian Game Companies Association, ABRAGAMES, and Apex-Brasil The partnership was created to promote the Brazilian gaming industry and enable its success worldwide Several of[...]

It appears GDC 2019 is going to be an interesting show as Google has now thrown their name into the ring with a gaming keynote at the event The company has been sending out media invites to specific journalists, asking them to join a mysterious reveal where "all will be revealed", which came with the[...]

credit// GDC Every year, the organizers of the Game Developers Choice Awards give out the Pioneer Award to a member of the game development community who has broken through tech and game design milestones This year, the GDCA Pioneer Award will go to veteran game developer Reiko Kodama, whose career in game development has spanned more than[...]

The Game Developers Conference (GDC) revealed the next title that will join the Classic Game Postmortem series during this year's conference Announced on the official GDC blog, this year's edition of Classic Games Postmortem will include a segment on Paperboy. The Paperboy postmortem will be hosted by John Salwitz, a veteran creator who's worked on everything from Rampart to Medal of Honor[...]

  Every year, GDC hosts the Independent Games Festival each year to honor the most influential, innovative, and acclaimed projects in independent game development Today, the IGF Awards and GDC have released the list of finalists for the 2019 Awards, which will take place on March 20th, 2019 at 6:30 pm PT at the Moscone Center[...]

Every year at GDC, the organizers of the Game Developers Choice Awards give out a Lifetime Achievement Award to a developer who has helped shape the games industry as we know it This year, the award show organizers have seen fit to honor writer and director Amy Hennig for her expertise as a digital artist, animator,[...]

There are many things about Michael Blackney's project Dead Static Drive that speaks to me on a deeply aesthetic level, but it's key hook is that the game is 'Grand Theft Cthulhu on Route 66' and there are very few things that can top that.

A teaser trailer was shown during GDC 2016 and was well received by both press and gamers A playable build was available during GDC 2018 for the very first time, as part of Double Fine's Day of the Devs. Mosaic manages to be the exact same simple but dreadful life that many of us already live,[...]

Mutant Year Zero: Road to Eden was at GDC this year, with an official gameplay reveal The game was revealed with a CGI trailer which promised an XCOM-like experience for players, and that is indeed what The Bearded Ladies set out to build: an XCOM version of the tabletop classic, and after seeing the demo at GDC, I[...]

The GDC demo of the game was a four-player skirmish match, which will be playable at PAX East this weekend. The game's combat should feel familiar if you played the original, but even if you didn't, it's an isometric third-person shooter game The four-player Skirmish match is a PVE stage where you and three other players[...]