Our February issue, which is on sale January 17, will include an in-depth Post Script interview with creative director and co-founder of Chair Entertainment, Donald Mustard, on the challenges of developing for mobile devices and the inspiration behind the game's distinctive look.
Have you read Fat, Ugly or Slutty? If not, it's an education. Not a revelatory one, perhaps, but it's nonetheless a pretty shocking lesson on the behaviour male gamers exhibit towards women online.
But that's the way the internet is, right? Men act like turds because there's little threat of personal retribution. There's not much anyone can do, is there? It's just the way things are.
Limbo was 2011's best-selling self-published indie game on the US PlayStation Store, SCEA has announced.
Playdead's monochrome adventure tops the list posted on the PlayStation Blog, ahead of The Behemoth's side-scrolling brawler Castle Crashers.
SCEA also reveals that Pixeljunk Shooter 2 was the best-selling game published by Sony itself, with Hoard topping the list of games that Sony part-funded through its Pub Fund.
Japanese early adopters of 3DS get ten free Game Boy Advance games as part of the Ambassador Programme this Friday, December 16.
The scheme is Nintendo's compensation to those who supported the system before the global price cut in August, and the release of the GBA games follows ten free NES titles, released in September.
Super Meat Boy and Shank are among the games on offer in the Humble Indie Bundle 4, which launched yesterday.
The latest pay-what-you-want promotion - the fourth in the last three months - also includes Jamestown, Bit.Trip Runner, and NightSky HD. Those paying more than the average - currently $5.34 - also get Gratuitous Space Battles and Cave Story+. As always, the games are DRM-free and run on Mac, Windows and Linux.
Super Meat Boy and Shank are among the games on offer in the Humble Indie Bundle 4, which launched yesterday.
The latest pay-what-you-want promotion - the fourth in the last three months - also includes Jamestown, Bit.Trip Runner, and NightSky HD. Those paying more than the average - currently $5.34 - also get Gratuitous Space Battles and Cave Story+. As always, the games are DRM-free and run on Mac, Windows and Linux.
Gareth Edmonson, former managing director of Ubisoft Reflections, has been appointed chairman of UK industry network GameHorizon.
Edmonson left Reflections - founded by his brother Martin - last month, after ten years with the studio. He then joined Liverpool-based mobile publisher Thumbstar Games as CEO, and took a seat on its board of directors.
Everything’s already been done,” rants Tom Sizemore in Strange Days, a movie about VR junkies and social entropy on the eve of the 21st century. “Every kind of music’s been tried, every kind of government’s been tried, every fucking hairstyle, bubble gum flavour, breakfast cereal… How are we gonna make another thousand years?” The answer, we’re now discovering, is to revive the previous 50.
A US federal judge has dismissed a class-action lawsuit brought against Sony over its removal from the PlayStation 3 of OtherOS, a feature allowing users to install a second operating system such as Linux on their consoles.
Nintendo's 3DS sold 378,114 units in Japan last week, the best week of sales the system has seen since its launch in February.
The surge in sales - an increase week on week of 84 per cent, beating the system's launch-week sales by almost 7,000 units - was driven by Monster Hunter Tri G, which has sold 471,055 since its release on December 10.
Codemasters has announced Dirt Showdown, an "action-packed extension" of the series due in May for PlayStation 3, Xbox 360 and PC.
An arcade racer, Showdown features three event types: standard races; demolition derbies; and "Hoonigan", a stunt-based gametype featuring "accessible controls." Codemasters says it will be its most connected game ever, with split-screen multiplayer, eight-player online races, on and offline party games, and integration with video sharing service YouTube.
Codemasters Studios Birmingham, the team behind F1 2010, is looking for additional talent as it begins work on a brand new title. Positions available include senior audio programmer, lead programmer and principal level designer, among others. Find all Codemasters' vacancies here.
If you’ve ever fragged or been fragged by a frag then you’re probably familiar with the immediate and simple pleasures of the hand grenade. Very few of us, however, have spent time deeply considering the design of grenade mechanics and how different decisions creep their way up into the aesthetics of play. Their sheer and sudden power means they can reinforce or undermine a design. It is therefore crucial to understand the basic parameters of grenade design and the impact different design decisions relating to grenades can have on your game.
Nintendo has confirmed that charming Wii music game Minna No Rhythm Tengoku will be released in Europe next year, titled Beat The Beat: Rhythm Paradise.
The company's 2012 release schedule confirms a European release for the game which topped the Japanese chart on its release in July, selling almost 120,000 units in its first week on shelves. It will be released in the US as Rhythm Heaven Fever in February.
Shigeru Miyamoto has moved to clear up reports that he is stepping down from his current role at Nintendo, insisting: "Nothing has changed."
Sony has confirmed that Team Ico boss Fumito Ueda has left its employ and is overseeing completion of The Last Guardian on a freelance basis.
In a statement passed to Gamasutra, Sony confirmed reports of Ueda's departure but insisted he was "committed to completing" the game.
GSC Game World, Ukrainian developer of the STALKER series, has admitted that it is facing closure.
News broke last week that the studio was to close, with a Ukranian news site claiming founder and CEO Sergei Grigorovich had informed staff of his decision to drop the shutters on the Kiev-based studio for unspecified personal reasons.
Minecraft developer Mojang hopes to release its first publishing venture, Cobalt, for PC this Friday.
Speaking to us this afternoon, managing director Carl Manneh told us that Cobalt, a side-scrolling action game developed by fellow Swedes Oxeye Game Studio, would be released on Friday as long as Mojang can tie up a few loose ends.
Epic Games has admitted that Mojang's indie virtual world Minecraft in part inspired Fortnite, the game the company unveiled at the Spike VGA on Saturday.
Call Of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 brought in a billion dollars for Activision in its first 16 days on shelves, the publisher has announced.
Total US videogame sales at retail rose by 0.4 per cent last month, grossing $3 billion in total, according to market research firm NPD Group.
That modest growth comes despite declines in sales of hardware - which fell nine per cent despite an increase in unit sales because prices are lower than this time last year - and accessories. With no equivalent to last year's Kinect release, sales fell by 34 per cent.
Eutechnyx has announced plans to establish a London-based publishing team to support the release of upcoming free-to-play online racer Auto Club Revolution.
The news follows the award last month of £1.8 million in government funding, which the Gateshead-based studio said at the time would be used to set up a publishing division and more than double its current headcount of 160.
Read previous parts in our account of Hogrocket's rise here.
So there we were - two months into the crazy adventure of running our own games company. We had announced Hogrocket to the world a few weeks earlier, and (fortunately) had been fighting off interview requests from the press and e-mails from potential partners. Our website was doing the business; sign-ups to our mailing list were gradually rising as was our Twitter follower count. We even got a couple of CVs through! So far so good.
Publisher THQ has laid off 30 staff including an executive vice president from its uDraw team after disappointing sales of the tablet peripheral.
Speaking to Game Informer, THQ confirmed the layoffs following the reduction last week of its third-quarter revenue forecasts by 25 per cent because sales of uDraw on Xbox 360 and PS3 had been "weaker than expected."
Electronic Arts has announced Command & Conquer Generals 2, promising to take the beloved strategy series "back to its roots".
The game, announced at the Spike VGA event on Saturday night, runs on DICE's Frostbite 2 engine, is exclusive to PC and will be released in 2013. It's being developed by Victory Games, the strategy studio EA set up in February which is now part of the BioWare label and has been renamed BioWare Victory.