Game Industry

Inside Indie Dev: Garry Hamer, Push for Emor

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Update: You can submit your indie project for possible inclusion in this series! Here’s more info! Garry Hamer (@_LupusSolus) Founder, Lupus Solus Project: Push for Emor When I first encountered Garry Hamer, he was eagerly showing around the alpha for his upcoming sci-fi shooter RPG, Push for Emor. We had a lighthearted chat over Twitter–I … Read more

Announcing the Inside Indie Dev Series

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Inside Indie Dev

Update 1/15/16: Want your indie project to be considered for this series? Here’s more info! Update 1/13/16: The first installment of this series is up! Just a quick post to announce the Inside Indie Dev interview series! In these posts you’ll get a look at new and upcoming independent projects and interviews with the creative … Read more

Review – FAST Racing NEO (Wii U)

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FAST Racing NEO

FAST Racing NEO is an anti-gravity arcade racer developed by Shin’en Multimedia with fans of the F-Zero series in mind. The game features a variety of high-speed hovering vehicles designed for use on 16 futuristic tracks in single-player tournaments or competitive multiplayer. As a huge fan of racing games in general it’s nice to see a new competitor on … Read more

It’s Not a Trap: The Case for Star Wars Battlefront

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Star Wars Battlefront

It probably isn’t news to you that players have been very hard on Star Wars Battlefront. While Metacritic awards the PC version a 71/100 based on average reviews from 17 top critics, site users have slapped it with a 3.4/10 (!), citing a variety of complaints including an unfair DLC model, no space battles, and the lack of … Read more

The Coolest Gaming Book I Had Never Heard Of

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While working on a news story noting the 10th launch anniversary of the Xbox 360 recently, I came across a story I could hardly believe. Wikipedia suggested that the 360’s core processor was only a “slightly modified” version of the Sony PlayStation 3’s Cell Processor technology, and that IBM engineers had to “hide” this from … Read more

New Adventures in Gaming Journalism

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Over half a year ago, I left my full-time software development career of ten years to take care of my son and pursue indie game development. Since the closing of NightfallUnlimited.com, I hadn’t given much thought to what would be next in terms of my writing, podcasting, blogging, etc. Then a funny thing happened.

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SMH at the New Xbox One Experience

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I’ve been in the Xbox One Preview Program for several months but, by now, most of us have finally seen the XB1 system overhaul and have had time to decide what they think. Industry writers are singing its praises and Microsoft execs are all but posing in front of Mission Accomplished banners; I’m over here shaking my head.

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