Month: July 2012

Video games are built on a series of triggers, moments that are designed to make the player react emotionally. Some of these are simple, like firing a gun at the baddies, others are more complex, like a conversation with a...

Zynga is a very troubled company. Not only did they release a financial report that cratered their stock, it also turns out that many of their corporate royalty unloaded millions in stock right before the report went public....

Consider for a moment that people have used the physics of Minecraft to create actual working computers inside the game. Sometimes with graphics. Now, the good folks at Minecraft HQ are handing these people a block that can...

Over the last few days, much has been made from Gabe Newell’s remarks about Windows 8, seeing it as a catastrophe for game makers. As Gabe runs Valve, that’s kind of important. Recently, Blizzard’s Rob Pardo...