The field of VR technology is not new but in fact it can trace it origin back to the late 60’s however over the last few years it has seen a massive boost in popularity, mainly thanks to one device the Oculus Rift. Oculus VR the company behind the device have been steadily gathering steam over the last year creating a huge amount of hype about the capabilities of their device. Continue reading
Over inflated budgets, managerial fallout, publishing deals revoked, creative blocks or simply just much too ambitious design concepts. These are some of the numerous reasons why some games are cancelled or postponed and in all likelihood will never see the light of day. Continue reading
Minecraft once again received an update this week, over 18 months after the game was officially released and it begs the question will this game ever be finished. The 1.6 update will add some new mobs and blocks among other gameplay and mechanical tweaks. However do the developers at Mojang need to continually update this game when the community has taken that task upon themselves and not just from the point of modders creating their own content, such as Dr. Zhark whose Mo’ Creatures mod lead him to working with Mojang on this latest update. Continue reading
Minecraft is probably one of the most talked about games in the industry at the moment and its creator Markus Persson more affectionately known as “Notch” is hailed as a pioneer breaking new ground in the video game development scene. In a recent documentary that explored the success behind Mojang which is Notch’s company, many industry veterans such as Peter Molyneux and Tim Schaffer quoted Minecraft’s development process as being an inspiration for them to break away from the industry standards and attempt to emulate Notch. However both have opted to use Kickstarter to fund their projects and have not followed the same development path as Mojang did with Minecraft. It seems that many were praising Notch and his successful development process but few were looking to imitate that process until last week with the release of Don’t Starve an open world survival game that does bear a lot of similarities to Minecraft, most important of which was the development process.