Digital developers share funding
Feuding royals, giant robot cricketers and dungeon-crawlers.
Entertainment
Plenty of wrinkles to be ironed out
Plenty of wrinkles to be ironed out
Let me make one thing perfectly clear: we don’t know how lucky we are when it comes to the range and quality and insane depth of modern sports video games.
Back to the future
Back to the future
Stop me if you’ve heard this before, but packaging an old game series and re-releasing it can be a risky business.
1920s dieselpunk setting explores a 'what if' world
1920s dieselpunk setting explores a 'what if' world
Iron Harvest has a great dieselpunk aesthetic going for it. There’s a lot of care that went into the look and feel of the game, and it really shows. But this effort is somewhat squandered by mediocre story, writes Michael Robertson.
Bugs and LeBron
Bugs and LeBron
Don Cheadle and director Malcolm D. Lee share how Space Jam: A New Legacy brings the classic franchise into the digital age. Peter Sblendorio reports.
Bringing life to game characters
Bringing life to game characters
The ODT’s Ben Allan talks to actor, voice and motion capture (MoCap) performer for video games Brandon O’Neill.
Slow burner delivers the goods
Slow burner delivers the goods
It feels odd to write this but, for a game that likes to throw a million things at you at once and makes it clear the only pace it likes is fast, this is a bit of a slow burner.
Keep the Peeps happy
Keep the Peeps happy
Michael Robertson finds there's a lot to like about Before We Leave, from Dunedin’s own Balancing Monkey Games.
Game Jam for budding developers
Game Jam for budding developers
The next great computer game may very well start here in Dunedin today.
Covering all the bases
Covering all the bases
A Sony game — and an elite sports title that has long been exclusive to PlayStation — published on Xbox for the first time. These are indeed strange times.
The threat hanging over our thriving gaming industry
The threat hanging over our thriving gaming industry
There's really no point anymore in dismissing the stereotype of video gamers as pimply, jaundiced teenagers huddled over a luminous screen in a darkened room.
Game on: Holly stars as Tokyo Paralympics avatar
Game on: Holly stars as Tokyo Paralympics avatar
Dunedin-based Kiwi Paralympian Holly Robinson may not have won gold in Tokyo yet, but she’s set to be immortalised as a character in the official video game of the Tokyo 2020 Paralympics.
School of video games proposed for city
School of video games proposed for city
Dunedin could become the epicentre of video game development if an Otago Polytechnic plan gets off the ground.
Be amazed on repeat
Be amazed on repeat
I am Selene. I have crash-landed my spaceship Helios on a hostile alien planet called Atropos. Something attacks me. I die quickly.
Witty, charismatic mystery-solving
Witty, charismatic mystery-solving
Once more unto the breach, dear friends.
Carinn’s game to take on world’s young code writers
Carinn’s game to take on world’s young code writers
A time-travelling cat with no name, looking for a place to call home.
‘Game-changer’ tool for agricultural aircraft safety
‘Game-changer’ tool for agricultural aircraft safety
A new tool has been launched to make sure agricultural spreader pilots are safer in the air.
Destiny awaits
Destiny awaits
After getting his hands on its latest major expansion, Destiny addict Ben Allan checks in on the state of the game franchise, still rolling on in its seventh year.
Game promises to invoke joy of albatross flight
Game promises to invoke joy of albatross flight
The peace and joy of flying across the Pacific on the giant wings of the toroa-albatross await players of the interactive game Toroa, now in its prototype phase.
Game on for Dunedin studios
City game studios gain Code grants
Dunedin’s stake in the multibillion-dollar global game industry was boosted yesterday as the New Zealand Centre of Digital Excellence dished out its first grants to new and emerging local studios.