Gaming News
Patent owner sues EA, Activision, Zynga, and more over sports games
Game Developer - 15 Dec 2015 23:54
Reports suggest that Virtual Gaming Technologies, LLC is aggressively pursuing a number of publishers over patents relating to realtime data reporting in games. ...
The Real Reason It's So Hard To Get People Excited About VR
Cinema Blend - 15 Dec 2015 23:34
Virtual reality in gaming has been around for a long time but it never really took off and became mainstream. There were attempts by Nintendo back in the 1990s, amongst other companies, but the whole thing was a difficul...
How to protect your mobile game from holiday season hacking
Game Developer - 15 Dec 2015 23:13
"Let's look at the most common cheating/hacking scenarios during the holidays. We'll also explore security measures you can implement to ensure that you keep fraud and cheating from happening." ...
Survey: American men and women play games in roughly equal measure
Game Developer - 15 Dec 2015 23:03
The Pew Research Center reports that, contrary to popular perception, men and women who play games in the U.S. do so in roughly equal measure -- 50 percent to 48 percent, respectively. ...
What Super Mario 3's PC Version Would Have Looked Like
Cinema Blend - 15 Dec 2015 22:41
Before id Software became huge following the release of renown first-person shooters, Wolfenstein 3D and Doom, they actually had some side-scrolling platforming under their belt... namely with Super Mario Bros. 3. The in...
GPUOpen is AMD's new open-source game dev toolset
Game Developer - 15 Dec 2015 22:26
Graphics hardware firm AMD announced a 2016 initiative at its Radeon Technologies Group Summit earlier this month that will see the company launching a new open-source development toolkit: GPUOpen. ...
New Star Wars Mod Makes Battlefront Look Like A Movie
Cinema Blend - 15 Dec 2015 22:05
The SweetFX mod for Star Wars: Battlefront has been making the rounds. Some people claim it makes the Frostbite 3-powered first (or third) person shooter look like a movie. You can see for yourself how the mod runs, than...
Bungie experiments with selling level boosts for Destiny
Game Developer - 15 Dec 2015 21:43
The folks at Bungie have quietly added Destiny level boosts to the PlayStation Store, which means Destiny players can now pay to skip through a large chunk of the game. ...
After two years, Volcanion has finally been made an official Pokémon
Critical Hit - 15 Dec 2015 21:00
The Pokémon menagerie has been growing steadily over the years, adding all manner of abominations and supernatural pets to each iteration of the franchise. Right now, the official number of Pokémon has grown by one, me...
My process for sound design in Unreal Engine 4
Game Developer - 15 Dec 2015 20:46
"In this work I will not use the famous audio middleware (Wwise, Fmod) and will achieve the same results only with Unreal Engine 4 (UE4) built-in audio system." ...
This Fallout 4 Mod Lets You Make Some Insane Weapons
Cinema Blend - 15 Dec 2015 20:45
Fallout 4 already has a pretty robust weapon modding system but, for some gamers, it doesn't go quite far enough. A new game mod for the PC version of Bethesda's latest epic fixes that problem, allowing players to attach...
Gamasutra's Best of 2015: Christian Nutt's Top 5 Games
Game Developer - 15 Dec 2015 20:19
Christian Nutt shares his top 5 games for 2015 -- and games big and small make the cut. What holds them together? An attention to exploring existing game designs in new ways. ...
Hear how Bloodborne's music was made at GDC 2016
Game Developer - 15 Dec 2015 19:09
With GDC 2016 coming up, organizers are excited to announce new talks for the show that will take you behind the music of Bloodborne and inside the chart-topping success of Dots. ...
5 Villains We Want To See In Telltale's Batman Game
Cinema Blend - 15 Dec 2015 18:41
Now that Telltale Games has let the cat(woman) out of the bag that their next game will be set in the Batman universe, that got us thinking: Which villains would we like to see square off against the Caped Crusader this ...
2,489 days after launch, Noby Noby Boy has finally been completed
Game Developer - 15 Dec 2015 18:20
Katamari Damacy creator Keita Takahashi's strange, stretching, solar system spanning, exploration game Noby Noby Boy has finally been completed. ...
Noby Noby Boy: one of the weirdest games ever hits its end
Den of Geek - 15 Dec 2015 17:20
Ryan Lambie News Dec 15, 2015 One-of-a-kind PlayStation 3 game Noby Noby Boy has reached its ending. You can see it for yourself here...
The Lazygamer Awards 2015 - Best Wii U Game
Critical Hit - 15 Dec 2015 17:00
Nintendo's little console may be struggling a bit, and it certainly hasn't had the strongest or most robust lineup this year - but that doesn;t mean that it isn't home to some of the best games available not just on the ...
UK organized crime unit arrest edu-game hack suspect
Game Developer - 15 Dec 2015 16:56
Officers from the UK's South East Regional Organised Crime Unit (SEROCU) have arrested a man who they believe was involved in the recent VTech hack. ...
Disembodied hands scale a cliff in new Crytek VR title, The Climb
Game Developer - 15 Dec 2015 16:38
Crytek has announced that it will be supporting the Oculus Rift by releasing its new VR title, The Climb, exclusively on the device. ...
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Critical Hit - 15 Dec 2015 16:00
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The Lazygamer Awards 2015 - Game of the Year
Critical Hit - 15 Dec 2015 15:30
We ummmed, and we aaaahd a great deal over this decision, really we did. The decision over which game we choose to be our Game of the Year isn't something we take lightly. Ok, that's not necessarily true; really - we usu...
The Lazygamer Awards 2015 - Best Driving Game
Critical Hit - 15 Dec 2015 15:00
Speed may be the domain of all but the richest of playboys, but the digital domain of fast cars and flashy rides is open to anyone with a console. Driving games are racing towards a plateau, where graphics are that much ...