Playfin

San Francisco-based video game developers Double Fine, makers of Iron Brigade, Stacking, and Psychonauts, made headlines this week by raising more than 1.4 million dollars for a new unnamed adventure game via Kickstarter.

Kickstarter, if you haven’t heard of it, is a website that facilitates “crowdsourcing” for a vast variety of projects. Crowdsourcing refers to [...]

An ambitious team of Dutch engineering students from Delft University of Technology recently constructed a world record-setting 12-foot-wide NES controller. The controller, which is constructed primarily from steel, weighs in at a staggering 265 pounds. It took the students one month and roughly $6,000 to build. Perhaps the most impressive feature of [...]

“Cloud gaming” has been all over the news lately. It’s rumored to be an upcoming feature in Google TV apps, LG-brand televisions, and of course the main offering of the new OnLive subscription service. What’s all the fuss about? Come to that, what the heck is cloud gaming?

Cloud gaming, sometimes referred to [...]

Activision-Blizzard’s upcoming action RPG, Diablo 3, has recently been at the center of a heated debate. Blizzard announced several months ago that Diablo 3 would feature an auction house which would give players the option to sell or purchase in-game items for cold hard cash rather than gold, the game’s virtual currency. Fan [...]

Markus Persson, better known to many by the nickname “Notch”, will step down as lead designer of the immensely popular indie world-building game Minecraft. This move, which Notch announced this morning via his personal blog, comes as a surprise to many fans of Minecraft, which is estimated to have generated total sales over $33 [...]