Between 2013 and 2014, solo developer Matthew Brown stepped out from the shadows and released a trilogy of completely unique puzzle games: Hexcells. All three entries came out within the space of a year, and each was significantly better than the last. And the first was already incredible. Over a…

Pokemon GO is officially adding a new Pokemon today that players can only get for a short time before it’s gone. Pokemon GO is no stranger to FOMO and exclusive events that add extremely rare Pokemon. An example is that Pokémon GO celebrated its 10th anniversary with a special event…

Valve has made clear that it has no interest in creating games that are exclusive to the Steam Machine. Bloomberg quotes Valve engineer Pierre-Loup Griffais as saying the company considers “having the whole PC catalog as our ‘launch exclusive.’” Although how exactly you’d create a game that’s exclusive to a…

A brand-new live-service fighting game called DCKO has been revealed, and it is a free-to-play mobile game featuring DC Universe characters like Batman and Superman. While it is not the first DC game on mobile, DCKO features a live PvP experience that is said to be “a first for DC…

We finally have our first true look at Avengers: Doomsday and the first trailer isn’t quite blowing people away. In fact, many are downright disappointed or struggling to summon any strong emotion after watching Robert Downey Jr.’s Doom and Chris Hemsworth’s Thor lay out the stakes of the Marvel Cinematic…

Amid the rash of industry-wide mass layoffs over the last several years, which has seen studios shut down, sold off, split up, and gutted of experienced personnel one after another, I’ve been thinking a lot about the concept of a video game studio. What is a video game studio? What…