4A Games Q&A

As tech interviews go, this one’s a corker. Readers of our previous Metro 2033 and Metro Last Light tech Q&As will know that 4A Games’ chief technical officer Oles Shishkovstov isn’t backward about coming forward on the matters that are important...

Twitch bought

Amazon will pay US$970 million to acquire Twitch, a site for live video broadcasts of people’s video gaming sessions. Amazon said in a statement it would pay $970 million in cash to acquire all outstanding shares of Twitch, in a deal that CEO Jeff Bezos said would let...

Women power!

Enraged fanboys across America now have indisputable and unarguable evidence that all those “fake gamer girls” they’ve been complaining about aren’t as fake as they say. Well, more evidence than previous reports saying 45% of gamers are women and the personal accounts...

Top 10 employers

With the explosive growth of the gaming industry, especially in recent years, new graduates are flooding into the field with stars in their eyes, hoping to create the next indie darling or blockbuster mega-hit. It’s a tough business with long hours and high...

Art games

What do you think of when you hear a game being coined as an art game? Do you think: ‘Eugh – pretentious fools’? Or how about: ‘Hmmm, that means no gameplay then. It’s not going to be fun’. You couldn’t be more wrong. A little known genre in the mainstream games...