Papers, Please documents 500,000 copies sold
Papers, Please, the game in which you bureaucratically decide the fate of hopeful immigrants, has surpassed 500,000 copies sold, according to the BBC. Created by former Naughty Dog developer Lucas Pope, Papers, Please was a 2013 favorite among many members of the Joystiq staff. In a delightful bit of serendipity,...
Rockstar Games weekend sale now live on Steam
Rockstar Games steps into the spotlight for a weekend-long Steam publisher sale, bringing price drops for L.A. Noire and the Grand Theft Auto series, among other deals. Starting today, Steam members can pick up the DLC-bundled Complete Edition of L.A. Noire for just $7.49. The four-game (plus DLC) Grand Theft...
Dear Esther designer Robert Briscoe joins Valve
Robert Briscoe, artist and environmental designer of The Chinese Room’s first-person interactive story Dear Esther, has taken on a job at Valve Software, citing a need to break away from “the solitary life” of indie development. “For the past five years, 90% of my days have been spent working alone...
Anomaly series developer reveals wartime survival game This War of Mine
11 Bit Studios, creator of the multiplatform strategy game Anomaly: Warzone Earth, announced that its next project is This War of Mine, a survival game that explores the brutal reality of civilian life during wartime. This War of Mine challenges players to keep a group of civilians alive as armed...
Brothers: A Tale of Two Sons director on next project, those controls
– Brothers: A Tale of Two Sons director Josef Faras is working on a new project, but it isn’t with developer Starbreeze. Speaking to Digital Spy during a roundtable interview, Faras said, “I can tell you this: If I tell you the idea now, you’d say, ‘I haven’t played something...
PopCap hit with layoffs after recent studio split
Plants vs Zombies and Peggle developer PopCap suffered layoffs today, EA confirmed. The news follows a reorganization at the studio in late February, which saw the developer split into a two teams, one geared towards mobile games and the other for console releases. PopCap CEO David Roberts also stepped down...
Joystiq Streams: TowerFall creator Matt Thorson teaches Joystiq how to arch [UPDATE: Relive the stream!]
From afar we watched Ouya owners, rapt with pleasure as they bounced around the beautiful pixel caverns of TowerFall, hitting each other in the face with arrows over and over again. We, too, wanted to fall through the floor only to re-emerge from the ceiling, poised to strike down our...
Invisible, Inc update comes in from the cold
Klei Entertainment’s turn-based espionage game Invisible, Inc remains in alpha testing, but to whet players’ appetites, the developer has cobbled together the above trailer to demonstrate the additions found in the game’s latest update. Highlights of the update include a new 360-degree field of vision for agents, stronger guards and...
Open-world voxel RPG Planets³ coming to Windows PCs next year
French indie team Cubical Drift announced the upcoming release of Planets³, an open-world, voxel-based role-playing game due to launch next year for Windows PC platforms. Planets³ finds players stranded on a cube-shaped alien world, where they’ll craft items and construct vehicles in order to explore their surroundings. Players can team...
Rumor: Sony to reveal VR hardware at GDC
Sony will reveal its virtual reality headset at GDC next week, during its “Driving the Future of Innovation” panel, Edge reports, citing developers that have the hardware in-hand (or on-head). The panel takes place on Tuesday, March 18 at 5:45PM PT, and it features SCEA R&D Senior Director Richard Marks,...