News: Microsoft announced at their Windows 10 unveiling that the Xbox One will be able to remotely stream to Windows 10 PCs, enabling gamers to play their Xbox without playing their Xbox.
News: Nintendo has announced a program to share YouTube ad revenue with YouTubers who play the company’s games, and man are some people upset about it.
6 Reasons Grim Fandango still holds up as One of the Greatest Games Ever
ARS Technica considers What Super Bowl ads can tell us about the game market
The Daily Dot considers 4 games that would make awesome, unconventional esports
Googled Donkey Kong and found this site that allows you to play the game. There’s also Pacman, Mario and Galaga. It's a real blast from the past for us Gen-X gamers.
Half-Life levels from an isometric perspective.
How much do indie PC devs make, anyways? MetaFilter links to a series of articles about how much indy devs earn behind the scenes of an indie game release:
Life is Strange Review Round-Up: Arcade Sushi (7.5/10), Destructoid (8.5/10), Examiner (5/5), GamesBeat, Game Informer (8.5/10), GamesRadar, GameReactor (8/10), Game Revolution (4/5), GameSpot (7/10), God is a Geek (7.5/10), Hardcore Gamer (4.5/5), Kotaku, Metro (8/10), Nerd Reactor (4.5/5), PC World, PlayStation LifeStyle (9.5/10), PlayStation Universe (8.5/10), Polygon (8/10), Shacknews, Trusted Reviews (8/10), Xbox Achievements (80/100).
Maddy Myers of Paste examines our penchant for romanticizing disaster.
PC Gamer offer this guide is going to break down how to set up a stream, and offer some tips for making your stream better for the viewers.
Rami Ismail assures us that everything is not fine and that’s fine in what may be the best game-related article of the week.
Ria Jenkins in The Guardian on criticism being treated as censorship. This is a quote from academic Thryn Henderson as part of the piece: "The attempt to discuss or deconstruct that now is seen as censorship – because people infer from that new discussion that they aren’t allowed to like those things anymore."
The strategy genre has finally embraced the apocalypse! declares Douglas F. Warrick.
This five-minute video on the creation of a Mario AI is interesting, for the way it learns how to kill things and for the speech commands that order it to feel sad.
Thomas McMullan mulled over the everyday lives of videogame characters.
At Unwinnable, Holly Green looked at the dark side of how peers, players and NPCs can influence behaviour in games and art.
The Video Games Women Make: While the vast majority of video game titles are designed primarily by men, women have been a part of video game development since the earliest arcades. MetaFilter has compiled a list of video games primarily designed by women.
The World of Warcraft community coming together to help an older man mourn his WoW-loving son is equal parts a sad and touching story.
News: Nintendo has announced a program to share YouTube ad revenue with YouTubers who play the company’s games, and man are some people upset about it.
6 Reasons Grim Fandango still holds up as One of the Greatest Games Ever
ARS Technica considers What Super Bowl ads can tell us about the game market
The Daily Dot considers 4 games that would make awesome, unconventional esports
Googled Donkey Kong and found this site that allows you to play the game. There’s also Pacman, Mario and Galaga. It's a real blast from the past for us Gen-X gamers.
Half-Life levels from an isometric perspective.
How much do indie PC devs make, anyways? MetaFilter links to a series of articles about how much indy devs earn behind the scenes of an indie game release:
- David Galindo describes what happens when you launch an oil drilling game as an independent developer just after the largest oil spill in history took place in the Gulf.
- David looks at what he learned from releasing and promoting Oil Blue
- Part III talks about how to detect piracy through Youtube referal links
- David talks about the challenges in designing and launching his next game, the hardcore restaurant simulator Cook, Serve, Delicious!
- In part V and VI he follows the launch and sales of Cook, Serve, Delicious! and shows how much of a difference being on Steam makes for a small developer like him.
Life is Strange Review Round-Up: Arcade Sushi (7.5/10), Destructoid (8.5/10), Examiner (5/5), GamesBeat, Game Informer (8.5/10), GamesRadar, GameReactor (8/10), Game Revolution (4/5), GameSpot (7/10), God is a Geek (7.5/10), Hardcore Gamer (4.5/5), Kotaku, Metro (8/10), Nerd Reactor (4.5/5), PC World, PlayStation LifeStyle (9.5/10), PlayStation Universe (8.5/10), Polygon (8/10), Shacknews, Trusted Reviews (8/10), Xbox Achievements (80/100).
Maddy Myers of Paste examines our penchant for romanticizing disaster.
PC Gamer offer this guide is going to break down how to set up a stream, and offer some tips for making your stream better for the viewers.
Rami Ismail assures us that everything is not fine and that’s fine in what may be the best game-related article of the week.
Ria Jenkins in The Guardian on criticism being treated as censorship. This is a quote from academic Thryn Henderson as part of the piece: "The attempt to discuss or deconstruct that now is seen as censorship – because people infer from that new discussion that they aren’t allowed to like those things anymore."
The strategy genre has finally embraced the apocalypse! declares Douglas F. Warrick.
This five-minute video on the creation of a Mario AI is interesting, for the way it learns how to kill things and for the speech commands that order it to feel sad.
Thomas McMullan mulled over the everyday lives of videogame characters.
At Unwinnable, Holly Green looked at the dark side of how peers, players and NPCs can influence behaviour in games and art.
The Video Games Women Make: While the vast majority of video game titles are designed primarily by men, women have been a part of video game development since the earliest arcades. MetaFilter has compiled a list of video games primarily designed by women.
The World of Warcraft community coming together to help an older man mourn his WoW-loving son is equal parts a sad and touching story.
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