Tim Schafer, the founder of Double Fine Productions best known for games like Maniac Mansion, The Secret of Monkey Island, Psychonauts and Brutal Legend, has turned to crowd-funding service Kickstarter to fund an adventure game. More »
Amir Hekmati, the US-born game developer sentenced to death in Iran for allegedly engaging in espionage for the CIA, has asked the Obama administration to do whatever it takes, including a prisoner-transfer, to save him from execution. More »
If you want, you can buy your university term papers. This has been true for as long as there have been academic institutions — some students just don’t want to deal with the agony and all-nighters required to pull together a massive paper. They’d rather be socializing than sitting in front of a computer, bleary-eyed, cranking out half-coherent paragraphs about a topic they barely understand. More »
Mark emailed Tracey and me last night, babbling on about some weird dream he had during a fever-induced sleep. It involved snow and FHM magazines. Yeah. We told him to sleep that shit off, so that’s what he’s doing today. Here’s what happened while you were sleeping. More »
Disney’s upcoming Wreck-It-Ralph is “the story of an arcade game Bad Guy determined to prove he can be a Good Guy.” Rich Moore, an animation director whose credits include The Simpsons, Futurama and The Critic, is directing. John C. Reilly, Sarah Silverman, Jack McBrayer and Jane Lynch are lending their vocal talents to the flick, with Reilly playing the bad guy Wreck-It Ralph. More »
Announced yesterday during EA’s Spring Showcase, PGA Tour 13′s Legacy Mode will let players of the publisher’s next golf sim step inside the golf great’s cleats at various points of his life. Including, apparently, Tiger’s awkward yet fashion-forward adolescence. More »
EA founder Trip Hawkins and Atari co-founder Nolan Bushnell both lend their stories to Gamers At Work, a new book that features interviews and anecdotes from a whole bunch of well-known game designers and developers. More »
Harry Lee is no stranger to Kotaku. We’ve played and loved his puzzle game, Impasse, and we were charmed by his enthusiasm at Melbourne Game Jam (Katie mentions him here and here). Now he’s gotten Qantas’ attention by winning the 2012 Qantas Spirit of Youth Awards (SOYA) in the Interactive Content and Gaming category. More »
In a time where every other game is a sequel of some kind, Tim Schafer’s Double Fine game studio has been pumping out original IP with the likes of Iron Brigade, Stacking, and Happy Action Theatre. But according to the veteran game developer, this hasn’t been easy. More »
After joking around about the possibility earlier, Double Fine head Tim Schafer has told Kotaku that a Psychonauts sequel funded by Minecraft creator Markus “Notch” Persson might just come to fruition. More »
