The existence of the sequel to the skills-testing platforming game was casually announced by Metanet Software president Mare Sheppard on a GDC panel today. No further information was forthcoming – no release date, no platforms, no images – but the announcement is good news on its own. ... Read More.

The employment of female exotic dancers at an International Game Developers Association at a party during this week's Game Developers Conference has caused high-profile members of the trade group to resign in protest. Most notably, Brenda Romero, an experienced and respected game developer whose resume stretches all the way back to Wizardry and Jagged Alliance, resigned her position with the IGDA this afternoo... Read More.

Today at the Game Developers Conference in San Francisco, California, the 10th annual and final Game Design Challenge took place. The decade-long series of contests tasks talented game makers with making a game based off an abstract topic. In years past, SimCity creator Will Wright made a romance game built within Battlefield 1942, and Journey lead Jenova Chen created a Facebook game that examined the concept of ... Read More.

Jay Wilson of Blizzard, director of Diablo III until he transferred to a different project within the company in January, said in his GDC talk that he feels both the gold and real-money auction houses "really hurt the game." While the auction houses reduced the fraud and effectively killed grey-market transactions between players and item- and gold-farming companies that hurt the online Diablo II community, Bliz... Read More.

The PC indie puzzle platformer, Thomas Was Alone, has received much praise since its release last July. The game is now being ported to the PlayStation Vita and PlayStation 3, so players can solve the multi-character, 2D puzzles on the go. We checked it out at the Game Developers Conference in San Francisco and the simple little downloadable surprised us. The game starts out simple, teaching players how to move... Read More.

During a Sony event at GDC 2013 we checked out Rain, an upcoming PSN game about a young boy on a cold wet journey to find a girl. Rain is being developed by the same internal Sony teams that created Echochrome and Tokyo Jungle. The game tells the story of a young boy who begins to follow a young invisible girl who is being chased by a group of ghost-like monsters. After entering a mysterious alternate dimension,... Read More.

Not only did Vander Caballero let me know about Papo & Yo coming to Steam this morning, but but he also discussed his next project with me: Silent Enemy. Silent Enemy is an adventure game set to lauch later this year. In my time with Caballero he discussed making it on iOS and hinted he's looking into other platforms. Caballero talked about how the company has found its place with helping people cope their... Read More.

Free-to-play may be the darling economic model in the game industry at the moment, but according to Capybara president Nathan Vella, the reports regarding the death of paid games on mobile and tablet platforms have been greatly exaggerated. During his GDC talk "Still Kicking: The Viability of Paid Apps in the Era of F2P," the Sword & Sworcery EP co-creator reiterated that huge profit potential still exists... Read More.

Even if you watched the show, you didn't catch the winner for every category. Here's the full list. Game of the Year The Walking Dead: The Game Studio of the Year Telltale Games Best Xbox 360 Game Halo 4 Best PS3 Game Journey Best Wii / Wii U Game New Super Mario Bros. U Best PC Game XCOM: Enemy Unknown Best Handheld / Mobile Game Sound Shapes Best Shooter Borderlands 2 Best Action Ad... Read More.

Here we have brand new trailer for upcoming video game God of War Ascension, Trailer was released during PAX 2012, Enjoy the  Goddess of Revenge Trailer below: ... Read More.

That's a wrap for PAX Prime 2012. attended all three days of the show, and this is our final collection of photos from the show floor. Check out some Resident Evil cosplay, glimpses at elaborate booths, and shots of exhibitors packing up. ... Read More.

Ron Gilbert and Double Fine's adventure-game-platformer is coming to the Wii U's digital distribution platform. Double Fine is showing the game at PAX this weekend, and it was there that it revealed that it will be available on Nintendo's upcoming console. The closest thing The Cave has to a release date right now is early 2013. Presumably it will be available for PlayStation 3, Xbox 360, PC, and Wii U all at on... Read More.

Warner Bros. and NetherRealm showed off two new playable fighters at PAX 2012. One is Nightwing, Batman’s former sidekick-turned-autonomous superhero, and Cyborg, the half man, half robot popularized in Teen Titans. I got to battle as both across the Batcave and Metropolis. Though I’m not the best at Mortal Kombat and NetherRealm’s other fighters, I had a fun with the overpowered spectacle of Injustice. ... Read More.

A trio of talented Disney artists are stationed at the Epic Mickey 2: The Power of Two booth at PAX Prime 2012. Disney fans are waiting in line for over three hours to ask these magicians to draw their favorite characters to life. I snapped some photos of the charming sketches and dropped them here for you to look at. ... Read More.

Along with a trailer, Konami and Hideo Kojima have revealed lots of new information about Metal Gear Solid: Ground Zeroes. The game will be a prologue, will be available for PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360 if Microsoft's logo at the end of the trailer is any indication, and Kojima is not ready to call the game Metal Gear Solid 5. The game was shown running on a PC, so presumably it will release for that platform as ... Read More.