'Katamari' Creator Keita Takahashi’s New Multiplayer Game Will Be Available...
By Joseph Leray Keita Takahashi is the man behind “Katamari Damacy” and, more recently, “Noby Noby Boy.” After that, he went on to design playgrounds in England, and eventually came to work on...
View ArticleGDC 2013: Microsoft Wants You To Build the Next Great Xbox SmartGlass Experience
By Kevin Kelly Rosa Thomas, a ten-year veteran and Principal Program Manager at Microsoft, spoke at GDC in San Francisco about the SmartGlass experience that Microsoft has been rolling out slowly on...
View ArticleGDC 2013: The Making of Myst - How Robyn and Rand Miller Created a New World
By Kevin Kelly When I was in college at the University of Texas at Austin, "Myst" consumed most of my waking hours for a few weeks, driving me crazy with its puzzles and mysteries. I skipped classes,...
View ArticleGDC 2013: 9 Takeaways from 'Saving Doug: Empathy, Character, and Choice in...
By Miguel Concepcion The element of player choice was one of the features that made Telltale Games' "The Walking Dead" one of the most critically acclaimed games of 2012. It was an even more meaningful...
View ArticleGDC 2013: Catching up with 'Killer Is Dead' and Suda 51
Miguel Concepcion The more I learn about "Killer Is Dead", the more I think Suda 51 is making his "Mission Impossible 2". In other words, I'm not yet convinced it will present anything new that I...
View ArticleGDC 2013: Going Hands-On with the new DC Comics MOBA Game 'Infinite Crisis'
By Kevin Kelly Warner Bros and Turbine announced on the first day of GDC that a new multiplayer online battle arena game (MOBA) based on DC Comics properties was on the way, and invited us to spend...
View ArticleGDC 2013: Fighting with DC Comic Book Icons in 'Injustice: Gods Among Us'
By Kevin Kelly DC Comics and NetherRealm have crossed paths before although their first meeting was when creative director Ed Boon was working at Midway Studios, and that meeting resulted derailed what...
View ArticleGDC 2013: Putting a Match to EA's 'Fuse' with Insomniac President Ted Price
By Kevin Kelly As a video game journalist, it isn't often that you get to sit down with the head of a studio and co-op through a video game with just the two of you. Often, the events we attend feature...
View ArticleGDC 2013: Bricking up the Marvel Universe with 'LEGO Marvel Super Heroes'
By Kevin Kelly While LEGO has long conquered the realm of real-world toys, they didn't really make a big dent in the video game arena until "LEGO Star Wars: The Video Game" back in 2005. This ushered...
View ArticleGDC 2013: Thief Wants To Pick Your Pocket and Steal Your Soul
By Kevin Kelly A decade has passed since the third and final game in the Thief series, "Thief: Deadly Shadows," was released, and a new generation of gamers who have been raised on consoles and...
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