SAN FRANCISCO– Lego and LucasArts is obviously a winning combination. The previous pairings of the two brands in the various Lego Star Wars games have been nothing but money makers for the brands and publishers involved. So it came as no surprise when LucasArts earlier this year revealed that another of its flagship characters–swashbuckling action […]

SAN FRANCISCO–The Game Design Challenge is one of the annual attendee highlights of the Game Developers Conference. Every year, Gamelab’s chief design director Eric Zimmerman takes one current industry trend and asks a trio of industry legends to come up with a game that takes that trend to its logically absurd conclusion.

In 2005, Zimmerman skewered […]

SAN FRANCISCO–In recent months, the PlayStation 3 versions of many multiplatform games have been released after their Xbox 360 counterparts–or canceled outright. Others, like Grand Theft Auto IV, have seen both versions delayed because, having optimized the game first on the 360, the developers encountered difficulties with the PS3 edition.

This week at the 2008 Game […]

SAN FRANCISCO–The next Far Cry will see gamers hunting down an evil arms dealer, and then discovering the evil within themselves. Peter Redding, game designer at Ubisoft Montreal, let the audience at his ‘Do, Don’t Show’ talk at the Game Developers Conference, have a little sneak peak of the upcoming game.

Redding said that the company […]

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Take a look at this trailer of Black Rock Studio’s upcoming ATV racer.
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SAN FRANCISCO–Let’s face it; a good chunk of the racing genre is just annual rehashes of things we’ve all played time and time again. These days, it seems that if you’ve played one ATV racing game, you’ve played them all. […]