Road Not Taken is deeper than you think
Road Not Taken looks like it could be a mobile game. The gameplay itself takes place on a series of grids, in cold, fantastical forests, where players must combine objects to clear paths and rescue children lost in the woods. It looks as if you could tap, tap, tap a...
Yaiba: Ninja Gaiden Z Review: Entrails from the crypt
It’s a shame that words and phrases like “gnarly,” “radical” and “totally tubular, dude” aren’t considered common these days. If they were, I’d know exactly how to describe Yaiba: Ninja Gaiden Z. I’d know just how to highlight the game’s ludicrous, over-the-top tone and obscene jokes. I’d have a word...
Hands on with Valve’s redesigned Steam Controller
Valve is showing off its newly redesigned Steam Controller at GDC 2014, and Joystiq just tried it out. As avid Joystiq readers are already aware, the new version of Valve’s controller ditches the central touch screen and its odd quadrangle of buttons for a more traditional setup, including four directional...
Sharing legends with the world in Never Alone, a game inspired by Alaskan Native communities
While museums and organizations lock the industry’s most important works behind glass to preserve their memory, development and publishing partners Upper One Games and E-Line Media are using video games to help preserve the legends of a people. In the upcoming “atmospheric puzzle platformer” Never Alone, players live out the...
Making everything new, old again in Alien: Isolation
Though Ridley Scott’s classic Alien takes place in a distant future, the film’s production values were a product of the late 1970s, with sets and props cobbled together with elements from the era. Rather than evolve the original designs-of-necessity in its upcoming and inspired Alien: Isolation into more modern props...
EVE Valkyrie in development for PS4’s VR headset
CCP’s virtual-reality star fighter EVE: Valkyrie is also in development for Sony’s recently announced VR headset, Project Morpheus. Though CCP and Oculus VR had announced a co-publishing agreement for the game, a spokesperson from CCP has told Polygon that the exclusive partnership only extends to the PC version of the...
Paradox Interactive to publish Obsidian’s Pillars of Eternity
Obsidian Entertainment announced a partnership with Paradox Interactive to launch Pillars of Eternity. Paradox will handle the marketing and distribution of the PC game, which is slated to launch by this winter. Formerly known as Project Eternity, the game earned $3.9 million on Kickstarter in October 2012. The game was...
Games that last for one second, one millenium in Pippin Barr’s Durations
Pippin Barr is an expert in crafting oddly insightful, simplistic games, and his latest collection is a testament to this skill. Durations is a group of mini-games, some quick and others that will last long after you’re dead, running for hundreds or thousands of years. They have names that range...
GOG.com to bring classic games to Linux
GOG.com (aka Good Old Games) has announced plans to bring some portion of its catalogue of classic PC and Mac video games to the increasingly well-supported Linux platform. Though not immediately available, this morning’s announcement claims that GOG will enter the Linux market at some point this Fall. “We’re initially...