Valve is kicking off the Steam Game Festival: Spring Edition tomorrow. This event gives studios a chance to show off their in-progress projects through public, downloadable demos. The Steam Game Festival kicks off at 10 a.m. Pacific on March 18. As part of the festival, Valve will showcase more than …
Read More »How Scopely took over the Scrabble mobile game franchise from EA
Last week, Scopely launched Scrabble Go, a new mobile game based on its alliance with Hasbro and Mattel on one of the world’s most popular word games. This could be a big deal in the $ 100 billion mobile game business. The Culver City, California-based Scopely took over the 80-year-old Scrabble …
Read More »Coronavirus inspires University of Washington to create protein-folding puzzle game
To address the coronavirus, the University of Washington has launched a puzzle game that challenges you to build a protein that could stop COVID-19 (the virus’s official name) from attacking human cells. The game is available on Foldit, a website that the Center for Game Science created. Foldit uses crowdsourcing …
Read More »Cosmophobia is Dreadhalls studio White Door’s newest VR horror game
White Door Games, the developer behind Dreadhalls (one of the original — and still scariest — VR horror games), is back. Its new title is called Cosmophobia, and it looks equally as terrifying. Like Dreadhalls, Cosmophobia is a first-person, rougelike horror game. Unlike its predecessor, though, this new game has …
Read More »Phillips SatinShave Advanced is a Game Changer!
Sponsored This is a sponsored post for SheSpeaks/Philips. When I was a young girl, I could not WAIT to shave my legs. I pestered my mom until she finally relented and I got to shave in the 7th grade. Throughout the years I have vacillated between disposable razors and electric …
Read More »Rock Band creator Harmonix announces music-mixing game Fuser
The creators of Rock Band and Dance Central at Harmonix Music Systems are launching a music-mixing game called Fuser. NCSoft is publishing the game made by Harmonix, which continues to be the bastion of music games for fickle video game fans who, once upon a time loved games like Guitar …
Read More »The RetroBeat: Why I switched from physical game collecting to digital
A few years ago, I started building up my collection of classic consoles and games. This was sparked in equal parts by nostalgia, finding some of my original cartridges in my parents’ basement, and the convenient opening of a local store that sold retro games. But after a few years …
Read More »Video Game Makers Want to Get Players Off the Couch
Tiffany Ruiz had tried various gyms, apps, workout routines and diets, all in an effort to get fit and lose some weight. “None of them worked because none of them kept my interest,” she said. Now, Ms. Ruiz is working out at least four times a week, thanks to a …
Read More »Dice Game of the Year: Untitled Goose Game
Honk, honk, honk. Untitled Goose Game won Game of The Year at the annual Dice Awards, one of the most prominent peer awards in video games. The fan-favorite title has added yet another honor for indie developer House House and publisher Panic. The Dice Awards are staged each year at …
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