Category: News

Game Workers Unite Condemns ArenaNet for Inciting Further Harassment of Their Employees

By Team Unwinnable • July 12th, 2018

Why have ArenaNet and Mike O’Brien not condemned the harassment of Jessica Price, Peter Fries and countless others in the games community?

Facebook Privacy Concerns Mark Shift for Oculus VR

By Daniel Sims • May 17th, 2018

Oculus reveals new privacy tools Sunday. As digital privacy concerns for Facebook companies mount, Daniel Sims looks at what drove Oculus to change and what that change might mean.

Boyfriend Dungeon Weaponizes Cuddles

By Levi Rubeck • May 9th, 2018

Boyfriend Dungeon wears a dating sim on its sleeve but bears a dungeon crawler as its beating heart.

IGDA, Union-Busting and GDC 2018

By Michelle Ehrhardt • March 22nd, 2018

Former Kingdom of Amalur CEO shockingly comes out as anti-union at GDC

Blizzard, Just Announce Sombra Already

By Sam Desatoff • September 8th, 2016

Overwatch clearly isn’t going anywhere, and now we’re all left to wonder when Sombra is going to arrive.

4K Will Devour Your Hard Drive

By Matt Sayer • June 28th, 2016

4K is finally almost here, and it will consume us all.

A Less-Than-Sunny Press Release from the Nintendo of 2020

By David Shimomura • May 12th, 2016

It’s less of a good time to be Nintendo, here in the year 2020.

A Sunny Press Release from the Nintendo of 2020

By David Shimomura • May 12th, 2016

It’s a great time to be Nintendo here in the year 2020!

The Future of Fairy Tales

By Matt Sayer • March 22nd, 2016

The latest motion-capture technology could completely change the way parents interact with their kids.

The Fresh Ingredients of Furi

By Charles Singletary • March 15th, 2016

Combine one part action, two parts speed, plenty of style, a dash of bullet hell and pressure cook with high intensity.

Why Aren’t You Already Following @WhoresofYore

By Amanda Hudgins • February 29th, 2016

People have been doing the hunka chunka for a long time. Amanda is kind enough to give us a valuable historical resource to scroll through on our lunch breaks.

Paragon: Making MOBA Less of a Dirty Word

By Tim Mulkerin • February 24th, 2016

If you’re not in the MOBA club, you’re not in the club. Paragon is making accommodations for those not willing to invest 200 hours to learn the basics.

University of Minnesota Struts its Culture with a Game Jam

By Jeremiah Cheney • February 11th, 2016

Game culture has permeated all the way to the grim and frostbitten North!

GameStop’s Publishing Future

By Jeremiah Cheney • February 4th, 2016

GameStop is nothing if not malleable. Where are they going with their future as a publisher?

Do Your Part, Get Danny DeVito to Voice Pikachu

By Tim Mulkerin • February 3rd, 2016

Pikachu has a soulful, wise human voice in the Japanese trailer for Detective Pikachu. Why not just turn him into Frank Reynolds for the Westen audience?

Square Enix’s Hitman model is dangerously consumer positive

By Charles Singletary • February 2nd, 2016

While Final Fantasy 7 Remake being broken into parts was met with disappointment, Hitman’s model is a cause for celebration.

How Undertale Broke the Internet

By Megan Condis • December 22nd, 2015

When Undertale won GameFAQs’ annual Best Game Ever bracket, the community went insane. But why?

A Very Viking Christmas Interview

By Declan Taggart • December 17th, 2015

Sing a Rune Carol this Christmas

ESPN Analyst’s Rage Supports Esports Growth

By Charles Singletary • December 15th, 2015

Through his constant negativity, Colin Cowherd has documented a wealth of progress in the eSports gaming community.

The Growing Pains of Games Journalism

By Charles Singletary • December 7th, 2015

Lines have been drawn in the sand when it comes to video game journalism, the consumers, and the developers. Self proclaimed not-journalistic-writers and journalists live in a fog of marketing and advertising, but we have a chance to see things clear as ever.

The Mark Hamill Movie Marathon: A How-To Guide

By Declan Taggart • December 4th, 2015

For as long as mankind has loved Mark Hamill, it has also faced its greatest foe: properly preparing for Mark Hamill Movie Marathons. Together, with this How-To Guide, we can beat that foe.

Social Media Break Up Coordinator

By Riley MacLeod • December 2nd, 2015

Personalized service for all your awkward social media break up needs.

What is Bob Ross Doing on Twitch?

By Megan Condis • November 23rd, 2015

I looked away for 30 seconds and missed an entire foreground.

The Road to Space is Procedurally Generated

By Dave Andrews • November 20th, 2015

Elite: Dangerous will be seeing planetary add-ons. No Man’s Sky continues to wait in the wings. They’re very different games, but they’re both carried by high technology.

PRACTICE: Game Design in Detail

By Riley MacLeod • November 19th, 2015

Designers and critics have more in common than you might think.

Two Billion Miles: You Have Two Choices and None of Them Involve Staying Here

By Declan Taggart • November 12th, 2015

Two Billion Miles shows you 3000 people toiling to live together in a deserted shopping mall, sharing 1 water source and 7 portaloos between them. Then it makes you one of those people.

The Road to an Android Future goes through the Uncanny Valley

By Charles Singletary • November 9th, 2015

Science Fiction of old oft envisions humans coexisting with androids as does Quantic Dreams recently revealed game Detroit, but Japan may have taken the first step toward that reality with their android actress.

Tusks, The Dating Sim About “Otherness” and Hot, Gay Orcs

By Tim Mulkerin • November 4th, 2015

Tim Mulkerin sat down to see what Mitch Alexander’s all male, orc dating sim was all about and how it fits into the LGBTQ community.

Grandpa Pip’s Birthday or Why Fred’s on Fire Today

By Declan Taggart • October 27th, 2015

Grandpa Pip’s Birthday belongs to that age-old tradition of art that emphasizes just how terrible life is by gorging on cuteness and whimsy.

Trick r’ Treat Is Back. Just Not On the Screen.

By Jeremiah Cheney • October 20th, 2015

There are werewolves. There are zombies. There’s a version of Sackboy when he’s off his medication. What more do you need from Halloween entertainment?

A Perfect Storm is Brewing for Monster Movies

By Jeremiah Cheney • October 19th, 2015

Legendary conformed that we’re going to be flooded with King Kong and Godzilla movies for the next few years. They could be good. They could be so, so good. Ask me how!

No Quarter, NYU Supports Indie Devs for Sixth Year

By Riley MacLeod • October 12th, 2015

NYU brought indie game devs together with players for a sixth year with the No Quarter Exhibition. Riley MacLeod shot over to Brooklyn to check it out.

Video Game Voice Actors Preparing to Strike

By Jeremiah Cheney • October 8th, 2015

SAG-AFTRA may be a funny acronym, but there won’t be anything funny when Steve in accounting is voicing your protagonist.

The Virtual Road of the HoloLens

By Jeremiah Cheney • October 7th, 2015

The HoloLens dev kits will be getting into people’s hands shortly. Jeremiah Cheney takes a second to remember the road that got it here since E3.

Push Play

By Stu Horvath • March 24th, 2013

Play Week begins and Team Unwinnable arrives at GDC 2013.

The Next Gen Food Chain

By Sam Machkovech • January 7th, 2013

Nvidia, have fun with your Shield. Valve’s running in with a sword.

E3 2012: Give Us a Minute

By Stu Horvath • June 8th, 2012

We need a little more time to figure out what the hell we just went through at E3 2012.

The App Hole: Facebook Buys Instagram? There Goes The Neighborhood!

By Don Becker • April 9th, 2012

In which Don Becker sees the coming of the Social Media Wars. Remember that scene in Terminator 2, when the robot steps on the skull? It’s going to be like that.

Get Ready for SimCity 5!

By Michael Sheridan • March 8th, 2012

Maxis and EA have officially announced SimCity 5, the first Sims sequel since 2003.

Confessions of a ‘Downton’ Dude

By Matt Marrone • February 3rd, 2012

Matt Marrone publicly embraces his love of Downton Abbey and gets himself featured in the New York Post.