The Vortex Competition is a game design contest run by Bill Marshall, one of the minds behind the Toronto International Film Festival, his wife Sari Ruda, and assorted others. The website claims (spuriously) that this is the fifth anniversary of the competition. According to the site itself, the competition has only been run twice before, [...] Keep Reading

There’s a wave of excitement in the Flash game dev community, as a small band of respectable developers speak out against the villains in their industry, and slowly begin to turn the tide against negative public opinion surrounding Flash game development. This week saw the removal of a post on monetizing Flash games by Russian [...] Keep Reading

i recently received an email from some “concerned members” of the International Game Developers Association: Dear Ryan Creighton, The actions of IGDA board member Tim Langdell since his election in March 2009 have raised questions regarding his suitability as our elected representative. As you no doubt know, the IGDA’s mission is: To advance the careers [...] Keep Reading

Some days, computers are like George Milton from Steibeck’s Of Mice and Men, ushering little old me through a brave new world of terrifying technology that i scarcely understand. Other days, computers are like Lennie Small, the idiot man-child who just wants to stroke things that’s soft. This morning, we tried to create a 301 [...] Keep Reading

The opinions expressed in the following post are those of the author, and do not necessarily reflect those of Untold Entertainment Inc., its employees or its affiliates. i’ve been closely following the Little Big Planet recall fiasco with a few opinion articles. Let me make my stance crystal clear: Sony should not have recalled the [...] Keep Reading