A short chat with Mr. Homestuck, Andrew Hussie (Interview)

Homestuck Andrew Hussie Interview Phoenix Comicon 2013

Chances are, if you know what the interwebz is, you’ve read our guest’s comic at least once… We spoke to Andrew Hussie,  the creator of the infamous web comic Homestuck at the TopatoCo booth during Phoenix Comicon 2013. In this very brief, impromptu interview, we gain some insight about the ideas and themes in Homestuck. We also learned a bit about Hussie’s gaming history and what he’s … [ Read More... ]

Region Free Consoles Will Benefit Japanfans

Region Free Consoles Will Benefit Japanfans

One of the coolest new features of the next generation of consoles is that they will be region free. There was a time, long ago, where I’d read gaming magazines that would have a section about Japanese releases. Many of these games never made it stateside such as the Playstation 2 Berserk game, based on the hyper violent anime and manga series. In other cases, it was beloved games … [ Read More... ]

Retro City Rampage dev happy about his free Unity Pro dev kit for Wii U

Wii U free unity pro dev kit

Canadian indie game developer Brian Provinciano posted the above on his Twitter account. This is interesting for 2 reasons. 1 it confirms that official Wii U developers get a free copy of Unity Pro (worth at least $1,500). The other being that Retro City Rampage developer Vblank Entertainment is working on a Wii U game.

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Xbox Live to implement a new reputation system

Xbox Live to implement a new reputation system

Tired of playing online with cursing 15 year olds? Microsoft may have the cure.

Microsoft’s senior product manager Mike Lavin explains, “What we’re looking at doing is creating a very robust system around reputation and match-making. If people are in your friends list, we’re not touching that, we’re just making it easier for you to come together. It’s really the anonymous side of things where we’re making these investments. [ Read More... ]