Giant Bomb Presents

Home designer Benjamin Rivers is tackling something altogether different with Alone With You, a dating sim-inspired adventure with a gender ambiguous main character meant to attract a wider audience.

The publisher you're surprised is still around hopes to help smaller developers make a bunch of cool stuff. You know, like Costume Quest 2. VP of publishing Casey Lynch laid out the company's vision to me this week at GDC.

A graphical overhaul of Oddworld: Abe's Odyssey is only the first step in the designer's big plans for the future of the beloved series. If people buy it, of course.

The only thing stranger than Frog Fractions itself is the story of how the game came to be, as told by developer Jim Crawford.

Microsoft user researcher Deborah Hendersen explains how her team works with developers to make better games by talking to players early in the design process.

GDC begins as mission designer Hugo Giard and director of narrative design Jill Murray discuss the challenges of making a game about slavery, and expanding the scope of game stories.

Vinny, Brad, and Rorie chat off the cuff about their first weekend with From's new RPG. Warning! Contains tons of random info about the game's first dozen hours.

The prolific Spelunky player keeps setting world records, and it just might be enough to let him quit his job.

Christopher Livingston runs the DayZ blog "hey are you cool" (heyareyoucool.tumblr.com), in which he recounts hilarious, sad, and boring stories from the apocalyptic frontlines.

Kotaku writer Evan Narcisse, whose parents were actually born in Haiti, joins me to discuss the moral, ethical, and emotional reactions we experienced playing Assassin's Creed IV: Freedom Cry. WARNING: Spoilers ahead.

Alex Swaim's interest in the technical side of video game art has prompted him to spend lots of time looking at the parts of virtual worlds we hardly ever think about.

I've already explained why I fell in love with Dark Souls, but part of the reason I started playing was because of Giant Bomb's users loving it so much. So I asked them why. Warning: This podcast begins with colorful language.

Dungeon Keeper isn't the only game getting warped by new business models. Touch Arcade's writer Shaun Musgrave breaks down how the SNES JRPG has been "modified" for 2014.

Manfred “Manny” Sideous is the player who wasn't able to pay a bill...and paid the price. His group, Pandemic Legion, was marching forward until disaster struck.

Alex "The Mittani" Gianturco is one of EVE Online's most notorious players, the leader of Something Awful's Goonswarm Alliance. He was also victorious at B-R5RB.

Bandai Namco's Brian Hong tells us whatever it is he knows about the new RPG from From.

Passage and The Castle Doctrine designer Jason Rohrer believes our newfound culture of video game sales is hurting players and developers at the same time.

It is no longer the year of Luigi. We're lost. So we asked some "experts" for help.

Christopher Kinniburgh was one of 300 people chosen to receive a Steam Machine from Valve. We chatted about how he was picked, and what it's been like to live in the future.

The latest court ruling was handed down earlier this week, and Law 360 reporter Michael Lipkin's here to explain why it's likely the end of the road.

Zombies, Run! and The Walk have been big successes for Six to Start, even as some in the fitness world are still scratching their heads.

Mythic Entertainment GM Paul Barnett can't be bothered to listen to things like "rules," so instead of 10 games, he's got 10 moments. And instead of a text list, he came into San Francisco to sit down and chat.

Mythic Entertainment General Manager Paul Barnett swings by to talk to Jeff Gerstmann about his concept of a "golden era," what it means to run a studio, why you'll probably never see a new Road Rash, and the weird, almost-exclusively British love of Para

Flower and Halo 2600 (?!) have entered the museum's permanent collection. Film and media art curator Michael Mansfield explains how the museum picked these games, and explains why the time is now for the medium.

Last week, Riot Games declared its paid players could not stream everything from DOTA 2 to...Fat Princess? It eventually backed down, and I called up OnGamers senior eSports editor Rod Breslau to learn more.