‘Batman Unburied’ will be Spotify’s first exclusive DC Comics podcast

Earlier this year, we learned that Spotify was teaming up with DC Comics and Warner Bros. to create a lineup of exclusive, narrative audio podcasts featuring DC characters like Batman, Superman and Wonder Woman. Today, Spotify announced the first ser...

‘Thomas Was Alone’ developer launches another sci-fi text game

Here we go again. In August of last year, developer Mike Bithell, responsible for popular games Thomas Was Alone and Volume, did something rather unique. He released a small, $5 narrative game called Subsurface Circular -- first on PC and Mac and th...

‘Life is Strange’ comes to iPhone and iPad December 14th

If you haven't had the chance to play 2014's Life is Strange or its recent sequel Before the Storm, now's your chance. The brilliant episodic narrative game revolves around teenaged Max and her ability to rewind time, returning to her hometown only t...

How ‘Life is Strange’ landed in Deck Nine’s hands

Idol Minds had been making video games for 20 years when it rebranded as Deck Nine in May. It's not just the studio's name that changed -- its entire mission refocused. Instead of working on titles like Cool Boarders 2001 and Pain, developers built a...

Motherhood, nature and technology in ‘Horizon Zero Dawn’

Horizon Zero Dawn is Guerrilla Games' first original creation since releasing the original Killzone in 2004. Not only is it Guerrilla's first foray into a brand-new universe in 13 years, but it's a completely new genre for the studio: an open-world,...

City of the Shroud’ is an RPG with a truly player-driven story

Adventure and role-playing games have always focused on telling stories, and that tradition has permeated into almost every other genre. Whether linear plots, or branching, adaptive tales, developers are putting story everywhere. And just as the tech...