The Best Games Of 2023 So Far | GI Show
In this week's episode of The Game Informer Show, hosts Alex Van Aken and Marcus Stewart determine the best games of 2023 (their favorites, actually, but "best games" is better SEO) by l...
How Dlala Studios Is Building Disney Illusion Island Around The Joy Of Movement And Mickey
Years ago, Disney reshaped its approach to gaming. Recognizing the potential to connect its global audience to the world’s most financially successful entertainment industry, it hired former PlayS...
25 Years Later, I’m Finally Playing The Sequels To My Favorite Games
“Listen to my story. This may be our last chance.” With those immortal words uttered by Tidus in the opening moments of 2001’s Final Fantasy X, my life changed forever. But it wasn’t just Tidus’ s...
What Scares Horror Game Developers
During his childhood, Sam Barlow experienced a traumatic event: Being chased by monkeys around a swimming pool. He was around age 5, living in Tanzania in East Africa. His parents did nothing, he ...
Behind The Dangerous Stunts Of Nintendo’s Iconic Mario Commercials
“I was raising my hand as if to say, ‘I’m about to die; someone save me,’” Tim “Fireball” Lawrence says. He was about to drown in a swimming pool. While wearing a Yoshi costume, no less.
“The hea...
The Real-Life Kamurochō: A Yakuza History Lesson with Tokyo Vice’s Jake Adelstein
It’s an uncomfortably humid night in the bustling Shinjuku ward of Tokyo, Japan. I futilely try to circulate air in my sweat-stained shirt at an intersection surrounded by questionable bars and se...
Netflix Is Betting Big On The Game Industry. Will It Work?
If someone sees the term “video game publisher,” a few names likely come to mind. Nintendo, Xbox, PlayStation, Activision, and Ubisoft routinely publish some of the biggest titles in the game indu...
How Is Capcom’s RE Engine So Versatile?
Exoprimal is built using Capcom’s proprietary RE Engine, which is surprising considering the other Capcom games that have used the engine are quite different. The first game to publicly use it was...