Mirror’s Edge gets Release Date!

via Game|Life
EA’s promising first-person parqure action adventure title, Mirror’s Edge finally has a street date. Xbox 360 and Playstation 3 owners should mark their calendars for November 11. Those of us wait for this highly anticipated title have to wait until “later in the winter.” Added bonus for those who preorder, anyone [...]

The w0rd Podcast Ep.5: GDC 2008

In this episode Chris talks about his trip to the Game Developers Conference this year in San Fransisco. He also had the distinct pleasure of interviewing Dave Grossman, of Day of The Tentacle, and more recently Sam and Max fame. We talk about the new episode of Sam and Max, and some hints [...]

GDC attendance up from last year.

via GameSpot
It seems that in the aftermath of the downsizing and splintering of E3, that all of the other video game conferences are getting bigger. The Game Developers Conference in San Fransisco last week saw an increase of over two thousand attendees from last year. The Tokyo Game Show, Leipzig Game [...]

Dark Sector MULTIPLAYER DETAILS

When I attended the D3Publisher event last week in San Fransisco, I was able to get a hands on with Dark Sector’s multiplayer modes, more after the break. It was being shown by Steve Sinclair, project lead on Dark Sector. You may remember some of his previous works, Unreal Championship for the original [...]

Announcing Puzzle Quest: Galactrix

Big news for fans of D3Publisher’s RPG-Puzzle game mash-up, Puzzle Quest: Challenge of the Warlords. A sequel is on the way! This time around the game is sporting a sci-fi theme. Check after the break for more pictures.
I was able to meet with Tim Ramage, Senior Producer on the project and he [...]

Behold the illness that is FEZ

This won the 2008 Independent Games Festival Award for Excellence in Visual Art at the Game Developers Conference last week. And rightfully so! You can’t go wrong with the pixel art style. The gameplay appears to be very similar to Super Paper Mario and Echochrome.
It’s being developed by [...]

Emotiv, play with your BRAIN!!

While I was walking the expo floor at GDC 2008 last week, I came across something truly fascinating.

Picture by Ethan Schur of TDVisor Corp.

This is the Emotiv EPOC headset. It allows you to control video games with your mind! Well, anything that’s been developed for it that is. It’s pretty rad, it’s able [...]

Kim Swift and Erik Wolpaw close GDC 2008 with packed house

The final session at the 2008 Game Developer’s Conference was also arguably the dopest.

It was a post-mortem on the last October’s break out hit, Portal. The talk was headed by lead designer Kim Swift and head writer Erik Wolpaw (who you may remember from his work on Psychonauts and the now defunct website OldManMurray.com, [...]

BUY THIS NOW!! The Dishwasher: Dead Samurai

I came upon some awesomeness at the Microsoft booth on Friday.

This is The Dishwasher: Dead Samurai, winner of the Dream-Build-Play game development contest in 2007 held by Microsoft.  It was designed entirely by a young man named James Silva.
This game is freaking awesome.  The art style is amazing and as far as gameplay goes, it’s [...]

Valve, “Source may be possible on Wii”

via GoNintendo
During an interview at the Game Developer’s Conference this week, Valve’s Doug Lombardi remarked how the scalability of the Source Engine could allow for possible development on Wii. He also mentioned that Valve is interested in developing for the platform.
This would be pretty sweet. I love Valve’s games, and they have one [...]