Game developer Red Barrels wants you to run for your life in Outlast

Game developer Red Barrels wants you to run for your life in Outlast
VentureBeat
If you loved the 2008 parkour-style action game Mirror's Edge but thought it'd be better with a bit of heart-pounding terror thrown in, new Montreal-based developer Red Barrels' Outlast might be the game for you. “The Outlast experience is mostly about ...

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343 Industries announces first 'Halo 4' Playlist Update
Examiner.com
Detailed in an announcement made on Friday, the video game developer revealed that the upcoming update will include weapon damage upgrades and HUD enhancements to the current SWAT teams. Players will now be equipped with Battle Rifles, ...

Examiner.com

2K Play and Nickelodeon's Holiday Video Game Lineup Features Favorite ...
PYMNTS.com
Additionally, the Bubble Guppies make a splash in an underwater world of laughter and learning in their hand-held video game debut on Nintendo DS™. Rounding out ... With Nickelodeon Dance 2, we expand that magic with new characters, songs and twists ...

Game Designer Wants To Replace Videogame Consoles
PSFK
A simple video game controller could be the key to unlocking huge markets for game developersand disrupting the dominance of existing consoles such as the Xbox 360 or Playstation 3. That's the conclusion of Charles Huang, co-creator of Guitar Hero and ...

D&D is games development, says Alex Peake
Develop
But his days as a game developer began much earlier, when as a child he began playing D&D. "When you play Dungeons & Dragons, you have the challenges of a writer, an improvisational actor, and a game designer all wrapped into one," he toldVideo ...

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He Went $63000 In Debt To Make His Game
Kotaku
Video game development can take a terrible toll on a person's mind, body, and soul. It can do even more damage to their bank account. Gordon Midwood, a developer whose game Derrick the Deathfin was released on the PlayStation Network at just about ...

Korean 3D games maker and Zynga partner Playnery lands $3.7 million in fresh ...
The Next Web (blog)
SoftBank Ventures, the investment arm of the Japanese operator, has led a $3.7 million (4 billion won) round of investment in Korean social mobile game developer Playnery, which also saw contribution from mobile tech giant Qualcomm and Korea's ...
The Next Web (blog)

FRANCE TELECOM : Alt-Minds, a new interactive gaming adventure, begins ...
4-traders
... 08:33am US/Eastern. Co-produced by Orange and Lexis Numérique, Alt-Minds is the new creation of Eric Viennot, internationally renowned games developer, where participants follow and interact with the story through the worlds of TV, video games ...

Wii U Video Chat Makes You Quit Games, But Nintendo “Hope To Improve”
Siliconera
... application that allows you to video chat with other Wii U owners on your friends list. In an Iwata Asks interview with two of the developers behind the app, Nintendo's president sheds more light on its features. ... If they wish to take the call ...

Beach weather in 'Grand Theft Auto V'
San Francisco Chronicle (blog)
Fact: stoners like video games. Fact: Rockstar Games' Grand Theft Auto is arguably the best video game franchise of all time. Fact: Grand Theft Auto V is coming in 2013. Ergo: we present a super-round-up of all the GTAV news, breaking fast and furious ...

San Francisco Chronicle (blog)

How hard is it start a game porting company?
GameDev.net
But how hard is it to start a porting company, is it easier than a full blown video game dev company? ... The original developer/publisher of the game you'll be porting will actually be handing over their intellectual property to you, which is quite a ...

Among the Sleep Developer Interview: 'Get your diapers ready!'
GamingBolt (blog)
But we're working a bit on our small side-project “The Plan” at the moment, which is a small experimental video game exploring issues of death and meaning, through the perspective of a fly. Kartik Mudgal: Were there any other games you were inspired from?

GamingBolt (blog)

Game Review: 'Assassin's Creed III' for XBox 360
The Flickcast
Since the initial announcement of Assassin's Creed III, the hype machine has turned out videopreview after video preview to help bring back loyal assassins as well as recruit new ones to the franchise's ranks. ... But as we have seen in the past, just ...

Past in gaming's present
Houston Baptist Collegian
These settings come with a wealth of information and context as well as room for developers to interpret these events in various ways. Another historical video game, “Call of Duty: Black Ops,” offers a very loose portrayal of the Cold War, an era of ...

The Making of Warcraft's Multiplayer
Gamasutra
To aim for better deal terms, a common strategy employed by development studios was to self-fund an initial game prototype, then use the prototype to "pitch" a development deal to publishers. The longer a developer was able to self-fund game creation ...

No universal achievements system on the Wii U
GamingBolt (blog)
“Scribblenauts Unlimited loosely has them in the form of 'Global Starite Shards' which is like a giant checklist of global things to spawn and do in the game that aren't area specific.” Now this may impact third-party software sales on the system as ...

Analysis: Google's Android finally earns respect with developers
CNBC.com
Smule, another mobile app developer, released its first Android app this Spring, roughly a year after the iOS version appeared, and in July the company launched an app on both Android and iOS simultaneously. Next year, Smule hopes to launch all its ...

Video: iPhone 5 Scrolling Glitch
Mobile Magazine
The touch display, which uses in-cell screen technology to fix the glass to the touch area, has had a big hiccup after CMA Megacorp, a games developer based in the UK, located an issue where the new 4.0 inch display starts freezing up when the user ...

Elder Scrolls content coming to PS3, Online
Bitbag
Although the game launched a year ago, the Elder Scrolls V has not yet seen any downloadable content (DLC) added because of multiple technical issues that Bethesda, the game's developer, has been working to overcome. Recently, however, they've ...

Dawn of the Dad: Fathers Are the New Videogame Superhero
Wired (blog)
Game|Life Video: Reviews, previews and insider info from Wired's gaming guru Chris Kohler. ... It'sgame developers, he says, who are doing the maturing. They're developing a stronger desire to bring meaning to their work. While games like Walking Dead ...

London Games Festival auctions exclusive artworks
The Guardian (blog)
A series of artworks donated to the London Games Festival by major developers is being auctioned off this month. The first batch will be made available online today. Over 100 pieces of video game concept art were collected by the festival and ...

The Guardian (blog)

'Borderlands 2': A Game, Not a World
PopMatters
Eric Swain is a self-educated game critic. One day he had the crazy idea that video games could be put under the microscope with the same amount of respect and thought that books and movies are only to discover he was not the first person to think of this.

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Destructoid (blog)
A big gripe that get's presented often is that lack of thought, effort or money that goes into a video game's ending, and that's completely understandable as it can be very frustrating to spend many hours with a character or a group, enduring struggles ...

Turtle Beach Exclusive Call of Duty®: Black Ops II Headset Series Hits Retailers
Sacramento Bee
Turtle Beach collaborated with award-winning developer Treyarch on the design and unique features of each model, offering select compatibility across most major platforms. Each limited edition model... Turtle Beach (www.turtlebeach.com) designs and ...

London Celebrates The British Gaming Industry
IGN
Thankfully, this year has seen a marked change in attitudes to the importance of the video gameindustry in the UK, largely thanks to the work that the Association for UK Interactive Entertainment (UKIE) has done. Games ... While bigger studios like ...

Dante Makes A Stylish Homecoming In This 'Devil May Cry' Gameplay Video
MTV.com (blog)
The new video really demonstrates how developer Ninja Theory has--visually, at least--nailed the combo-centric combat of "Devil May Cry," complete with frantic, up-ticking combo counter. Our own Clint Mize was impressed with the game when he got his ...

MTV.com (blog)

Mario who? Why Nintendo needs to create new characters
VentureBeat
I credit Nintendo with being the reason I got into the video game industry. Now imagine how I felt when I said to ... software from third-party developers. Game developers have ditched Nintendo and gone for more open mobile platforms like iOS and Android.

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CODcasting could finally popularize gamer TV
paidContent.org
Second, YouTube is the web's biggest video service. Including live video game broadcasting in YouTube could bring the genre to a much larger audience. In a couple of years, YouTube will be available on many living room TV sets, not just computers.

5 Reasons the Wii U Will Succeed
Gaming Illustrated
While the use of a video chat at system launch will likely be relegated to simple Skype or analogous services only, there might be potential down the line to support in-game video chat, which would make online gaming more personable. Whether it's ...

Fist of Awesome hits up Kickstarter to ensure bear face punching goodness
DroidGamers
The developer of the rather popular Hard Line game for iOS and Android has hit up Kickstarter to help fund the final development of his next game called Fist Of Awesome. This epic sounding ...You can check out the pitch video above. Website Referenced ...

'Halo 4' Generates $220 Million in Global Sales in First 24 Hours
Hollywood Reporter
Buoyed by critical praise, Halo 4 has garnered universal acclaim as one of the top-ratedvideo games of 2012, and sparked a worldwide celebration when it released on Nov. 6. More than 10,000 retail stores in more than 40 countries worldwide, including ...

Hollywood Reporter

'Call of Duty: Black Ops II' aims toward future
Worcester Telegram
LOS ANGELES — When the latest installment in the wildly popular “Call of Duty” video gamefranchise is released Tuesday, it will transport fans to a completely new place: the future. ... gave everyone in the studio a creative freedom we didn't have ...

PC and Console Gaming: Where We are and Where We're Going
Gaming Illustrated
Developers have difficulty scaling down to consoles and must become creative to address hardware limitations. ... It is the current leader, in the PC community, for providing a service to give gamers discounts and video game downloads in one place ...

Dudebro Gets Real Five Bizarre Games Inspired By Internet Memes
Red Bull UK
It was the source of inspiration for thousands of meme images and mashup videos online, and those fans were likely the reason mobile game developer Gameloft decided to create a game of the series for Android phones. The game ... This one hasn't just ...

Why Games Journalism Is In Much Better Shape Than You Think
Kotaku Australia
Games journalism seems to be a different beast. It has come a long way from the mainstream media discussing games with sentences like “Games have come a long way since (insert obsolete video game here)” but it still struggles for legitimacy outside of ...

One Week Left to Pre-Order Hitman: Absolution and Take the Sniper Challenge
Forbes
When you preorder Hitman: Absolution you're not just secure in the knowledge that you're guaranteed the further adventures of Agent 47 when the game is released on November 20. You also get an instantly playable mini-game called ... (I suggest you use ...

Forbes

How not to launch a game: Molyneux appeals for 'Curiosity' funding
The Verge
Peter Molyneux's latest venture, Curiosity, certainly garnered the attention of the mobile gamingcommunity when it launched last week, but the game has been suffering server problems ever since. Molyneux promises in a YouTube video that the team has a ...

Start-up Special: How to self-publish
Develop
Certainly, there is more to development than producing the actual game. While this is the most important ... in close proximity helps enormously. Networking is vital for tapping into fresh ideas and talent which can help make a game a success, and it ...

Develop

Football Manager 2013 interview
Telegraph.co.uk
Is there a link between Udinese and Granada in-game? Or do you prefer to keep such things separate? As such examples become more commonplace, can you see Football Manager accommodating clubs with such links, or will it upset the balance of a video ...