Games

Shigeru Miyamoto opens up to Polygon about designing games for Nintendo past, present and future.

SimCity’s DRM technology is putting a real burden on legitimate users, who are dealing with server problems and persistent connections that prevent them from playing the game offline. Is it right?

A game developer dad hacked a Donkey Kong ROM so his daughter can play as Peach instead of Mario.

EA’s disastrous SimCity launch has been marred by server problems, which they’re working hard to correct. They’re giving away a free PC game to afflicted players (and a Mac version is coming).

Video game producer Benjamin Sipe offers developers five ways that they can absolutely screw up their new Free to Play game.

EA has clarified its statement that all games will have microtransactions. They just meant the mobile ones.

Pangea Software’s newest game, Air Wings Intergalactic, is ready for download from the App Store.

Electronic Arts plans to add microtransactions (In-App Purchases in iOS parlance) to all future games.

“The Game Over Tinies” is a series of illustrations about video game characters inspired by Edward Gorey’s seminal work, “The Gashlycrumb Tinies.”

Cliff Bleszinski shares his thoughts about the future of the video game market.

Dorkly parodies what’s on the mind of gamers now that Sony has announced the PS4.

Aspyr has collected all Civ V content into one collection, the Gold Edition.

The man responsible for several leaks on Microsoft’s upcoming console, codenamed Durango, has had his home raided by the Australian police and an FBI agent.

People are so stupid.

Avadon 2: The Corruption is a new fantasy role playing game headed to Mac, Windows and iPad later in 2013.

Combined spending on iOS and Android games surpassed that spent on games for handheld systems made for Nintendo and Sony systems, according to a new report.

Baldur’s Gate: Enhanced Edition finally makes its Mac debut on February 22nd.

PC maker Enterbrain is producing Sega-themed laptops for the Japanese market, coming out this summer.

Nat Brown, one of the founders of the Xbox, rails on Microsoft.

LEGO Lord of the Rings is the latest LEGO game to get the Mac treatment from Feral – coming later this month and available through the usual download services.

Michael Barnes rants at the video game industry, which he says has become increasingly clueless and self-deluding about why games aren’t selling to expectations.

Austin Meyer, maker of the X-Plane flight sim, is engaged in a fight with a patent troll over a basic copy protection mechanism used in Android.

Slotz Racing 2 is available – it’s a fun (and free to download) slot car racing game for iOS.

Duncan Jones will direct a “World of Warcraft” movie.

Valve Software’s CEO Gabe Newell says his company’s forthcoming Steam Box faces competition from Apple.

Nvidia explains how Project Shield, its forthcoming game system, was developed.

Android app revenue grew faster than iOS app revenue in Q4, but iOS apps earned 3.5x more than Android apps did, according to a new report.

“As soon as we closed down the earlier Mac beta, we had always planned from that moment to develop a native Mac client that would actually be able to serve the needs of Mac players. We knew it was going … Continued

Some idiot says Borderlands 2 is one of the best games for the Mac.

Some of Atari’s coin-op games – not the most popular ones – are worth remembering.