Spare a thought for Shuggy, because his antic creators have brought him into the world surrounded by a perfect storm of glittering self-sabotage. Along with that forgettable name (The Adventures of Shaggy? Of Shigsy?) and a cumbersome, if well-intentioned, level selection UI, Smudged Cat Games has opted for a graphical style of such unrelenting clip-art blandness that your body may physically reject it on first sighting. Steady yourself: if you can get past the menu interface and go beyond the visuals, a leaderboard scramble of peculiar invention awaits.
Dave Perry, founder of cloud gaming service Gaikai, acknowledges latency as "the biggest elephant in the room" but claims that his firm has gone to great lengths to mitigate for it.
Dave Perry, founder of cloud gaming service Gaikai, acknowledges latency as "the biggest elephant in the room" but claims that his firm has gone to great lengths to mitigate for it.
Organisers of Develop in Brighton have announced that LittleBigPlanet developer Media Molecule will be interviewed by Phil Harrison during a keynote session at this year's conference.
Harrison, who signed LittleBigPlanet when president of Sony Worldwide Studios, will interview Media Molecule co-founders Alex Evans, Mark Healey and Kareem Ettouney in the conference's opening keynote, dubbed Living Inside A Molecule.
This month's rather fetching double-wrapped cover features Nintendo's next great hope, Wii U. We go hands-on with the hardware and deliver our detailed thoughts. We haven't forgotten the rest of E3, though, and you'll find extensive coverage of the Californian show, along with additional game previews, in Knowledge.
This month's rather fetching double-wrapped cover features Nintendo's next great hope, Wii U. We go hands-on with the hardware and deliver our detailed thoughts. We haven't forgotten the rest of E3, though, and you'll find extensive coverage of the Californian show, along with additional game previews, in Knowledge.
Michael Gove, the UK secretary of state for education, has said that videogames have "huge potential" to aid the study of maths and science in the nation's classrooms.
In a speech to the Royal Society in London last week, Gove pointed to the works of Marcus du Sautoy, professor of mathematics at Oxford University and an advisor to maths games website Manga High. He said: "When children need to solve equations in order to get more ammo to shoot the aliens, it is amazing how quickly they can learn.
Michael Gove, the UK secretary of state for education, has said that videogames have "huge potential" to aid the study of maths and science in the nation's classrooms.
In a speech to the Royal Society in London last week, Gove pointed to the works of Marcus du Sautoy, professor of mathematics at Oxford University and an advisor to maths games website Manga High. He said: "When children need to solve equations in order to get more ammo to shoot the aliens, it is amazing how quickly they can learn.
There’s more than a little of Half-Minute Hero to Realm Of The Mad God. Marvelous Entertainment’s matchbox-sized charmer used a simple increase in speed to ridicule, explore, and ultimately benefit from the structures and quirks of the RPG, and now Wild Shadow Studios has opted for a little genre gene-splicing in order to do much the same for the MMOG.
505 Games' Zumba Fitness is number one in the UK all-formats software chart for a third week in succession.
Lego Pirates Of The Caribbean climbs three places to number two, and Wimbledon fever helps Virtua Tennis 4 rise 15 places to fifth, ahead of Top Spin 4 in eighth.
Sony's download service, PlayStation Store, is to finally return to Japan this week, 11 weeks after servers were first taken offline after an attack by anonymous hackers.
In a statement on its website - translated by Andriasang - Sony confirms that the store, and Qriocity, will be back online this Wednesday, July 6. PS3 and PSP owners will be able to access the full suite of services including in-game items, code redemption, and Media Go.
As expected Zynga has filed for an initial public offering (IPO), which the firm hopes will raise about $1 billion.
According to the Wall Street Journal, the FarmVille and CityVille maker is ultimately expected to offer up to ten per cent of its shares at a valuation near or above $20 billion.
US developers Red Fly Studio and Blue Fang have been hit by layoffs that reportedly affect a combined total of up to 55 staff.
Austin, Texas-based Red Fly, which was responsible for Wii and DS platformer Mushroom Men, as well as the Nintendo console versions of Ghostbusters: The Video Game and Star Wars: The Force Unleashed II, told GameSpot that around 30 people were let go on Wednesday June 22.
US developers Red Fly Studio and Blue Fang have been hit by layoffs that reportedly affect a combined total of up to 55 staff.
Austin, Texas-based Red Fly, which was responsible for Wii and DS platformer Mushroom Men, as well as the Nintendo console versions of Ghostbusters: The Video Game and Star Wars: The Force Unleashed II, told GameSpot that around 30 people were let go on Wednesday June 22.
While Unity 3D has rapidly established itself as one of the leading mobile development tools, developer Unity Technologies is now looking to court larger teams with its 3.5 update, due this Autumn. We caught up with company CEO David Helgason to discuss competing with the major engines, not leaving indie developers behind and expanding the company.
Maxim Schoemaker is a game designer from the Netherlands, and his latest piece, Narrow, is wonderfully depressing. Narrow is a high-precision platformer about a man named Albert who can’t stop going into a mine to look for gold. It is also, according to an explanatory Tweet by Schoemaker himself, an examination of “the subjects greed and obsession”.
Disney Interactive has confirmed that Brighton-based Split/Second developer Black Rock Studio is to close.
The publisher has informed the studio’s 40 remaining staff, and said in a statement to Eurogamer: “Disney Interactive Studios confirms that Black Rock Studio’s current project has not been greenlit for further development.
“Consequently the company informed employees yesterday of the intent to enter a consultation process on the proposal to close the studios.”
In the few months following the Humble Frozenbyte Bundle and the launch of the Jack Claw project, the community has been building up the foundations by creating tools and code to ease the journey.