Gamasutra writes: I just couldn’t take it anymore. I was about 15 hours into Far Cry 3, and the next mission involved sitting down to play a game of poker with the game’s main villian, Hoyt. It was sure to lead to a...

Small indie studio Checkpoint had a deal with Japanese publishers Marvelous to release two games by the end of 2012. Those titles, AviNation and Party Politics, are both now out. But according to a report on Gamasutra, Checkpoi...

Shortly after firing about 150 people, Zynga has even better news for investors. It’s getting into a sure-thing moneymaker, online gambling. Gamasutra said on Thursday that Zynga saw a decent bump in its stock price after...

While speaking with Gamasutra, director Yohei Shimbori said that “everybody at the studio was pretty shocked. It really made us take another look at the game and why that reaction was there. One of the things that I learn...

Why is the PlayStation Vita floundering? One reason is that people just weren’t interested in developing games for it. At least that’s what Sony boss Shuhei Yoshida believes. “One thing that was surprising and...

Middle Manager of Justice, the latest zany game coming from Double Fine (previewed here by Kirk Hamilton) was one of the most downloaded titles on the iTunes App Store when it released on Tuesday. It just wasn’t supposed ...

There were a lot of one-hit wonders in the 1980s, but David Crane isn’t one of them. The Activision programmer was behind Decathlon for the Atari 2600, Ghostbusters, one of the first great film-to-game adaptations on PC, ...

Ralph Baer basically invented video games. During the 1960s, when television itself was still fairly newfangled, he was piecing together how the first video game console, launched in 1972, could work. It wasn’t just video...

Ubisoft’s CEO has claimed that the lack of new consoles has damaged the entire games trade for consumers and developers alike. In an interview with Gamasutra, Yves Guillemot shared his feeling that the lengthy console cyc...