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Musical Moments: Bastion
Music is an integral part in a great game. Some of the best games not also have fantastic music, but they utilize the music at crucial points in the game…
“Maestros of Video Games” Panel Announced For PAX East 2014
With events like Game Music Connect, the Video Games Live symphony, and MAGFest, it would seem as if video game music is experiencing a surge in popularity right now, and…
USERGENERATION: Thiago Vidotto
User Generation looks at user-generated content and the people who use video games to create something for themselves. The subject for this week in Thiago Vidotto, a character artist and…
Blurred Lines: Virtual Reality and the Future of Player-Character Relationships
With augmented reality slowly worming its way into our daily lives and virtual reality headsets like the Oculus Rift looming on the horizon, it seems more and more likely that…
Achieving Empathy And Understanding Through Video Games
As video games continue to grow towards the comfortable position of “legitimate” artistic medium, we’ll continue to see them expand on what they can accomplish. From simple fun, to distractions,…
The Art of Cradle
Cradle is an open-world RPG in development by Mojo Game Studios to be released in the summer of 2016. Right now there is a Kickstarter campaign going on to fund the project. The…
New Screenshot For The Walking Dead Shows How Awesome The Episode Will Look
Recently, TellTale Games, the studio behind The Walking Dead, Back To The Future, and the upcoming Tales From The Borderlands, revealed a single screenshot for the upcoming second episode of The Walking Dead: Season Two,…
The Lore Writers: Becoming a Video Game Writer
The Lore Masters Graphics, gameplay, level design, fun – it takes a healthy balance of all these things to create a truly engaging game experience, but storytelling is becoming more…
Deck-building Goes Down the Rabbit Hole Into a Wonderful New World, and I Love It!
Introducing Fantastiqa As children, and maybe sometimes even as adults, we’ve probably all been captivated by the world of imagination. A world where our tricycle is in fact a powerful…
Setting The Mood: How In-Game Environments Affect The Way We Play
I step out into the world, the sudden flash of sunlight blinding me for a few seconds as my eyes adjust, and look out across a vast expanse of arid…