The approaching week heralds the start of the annual Game Developers Conference over in San Francisco. As the name suggests, it’s more of a developer shindig than a marketing exercise, but you generally tend to get a bucket of announcements before, during and after the event that tend to mix things up a little. However, instead of just pulling through what’s going on during the week and what’s in the announcement pipeline, I thought I’d [...]

Every so often there’s a game that appears to come out of nowhere, that grasps previously untapped gameplay mechanics or concepts, or redefines an existing genre through a completely new approach. They’re precious moments, passed like open secrets from gamer to gamer when talking about the games that were truly special to them. We all have them – games that we look on fondly as a moment in our lives, and even though they didn’t [...]