Dave Perry announced, during last week’s Game Developers Conference, that the cloud-streaming game service Gaikai has gone live to public beta. The service has debuted with five PC demos for Dead Space 2, Spore, Mass Effect 2, The Sims 3, and Linden Labs’ Second Life. The network claims to be “the fastest interactive proximity network […]
As part of Another World/Out of World‘s post-mortem last week at the Game Developers Conference, Eric Chahi, the game’s maker, announced a new platform for the classic retro title. Developed by DotEmu and published by BulkyPix (both companies working out of France), a new version of the roto-scoped adventure game will make its way to […]
The third day of last week’s Game Developers Conference was devoted to a two-part awards show, celebrating the best in indie (Independent Gaming Festival) and major (Game Developers Choice) releases. There were little surprises, with Minecraft and Red Dead Redemption effectively sweeping their respective awards shows with both the most nominations and the most wins. […]
Over this week’s Game Developers Conference, Valve debuted a new addition to their Steam digital distribution platform. “Big Picture Mode” will allow users to display and play with their Steam catalog on more screens throughout the house, from tiny portable TV boxes to big screen living room sets. The feature will allow the formerly mouse/keyboard-exclusive […]