The videogames industry has come a long way since the days of Mario Bros. on the Nintendo Entertainment System. And with this maturity comes a media ecosystem that also evolved over the years. In today’s wild games journalism world, the Super Bunnyhop YouTube channel and its creator, George Weideman, stand out.
It took eight years, but they finally did it: the developers of Wube Software, in Prague, published the official « 1.0 » version of the factory management game Factorio a few weeks ago. For one of the original creators of the game, however, this is just the beginning.
What do you do when the industry you’re usually covering for your job basically shuts down? For this week’s episode of Entretiens journalistiques, Oliver Sachgau talks about his experience as a journalist forced into lockdown.
Parle-t-on assez de santé mentale en journalisme? À l’occasion du 36e épisode d’Entretiens journalistiques, Mathieu Charlebois, chroniqueur pour L’Actualité et Curium, ainsi que producteur du balado Comment être drôle se penche sur un aspect souvent négligé du travail dans les médias.
Pour cette deuxième édition de la série Les jeux préférés de…, il est déjà temps de s’éloigner un peu du cadre établi en discutant avec Mandalore Gaming, un YouTubeur spécialisé en jeux vidéo, que l’on pourrait considérer comme un observateur de l’industrie.
On oublie trop souvent que l’information n’est pas limitée aux grandes villes. Au Québec, on retrouve l’expression « Montréalisation de l’information », soit le fait de centraliser le traitement de l’actualité autour de la métropole. Et pourtant, il s’en passe des choses, au-delà des ponts! Le journalisme peut même y prendre une couleur différente, à la fois plus simple et plus complexe.
The scent of spices on a cold night in the desert. The faint light of torches, far away. And between two houses, a shadowy figure: our hero, who will need all of his wit – and probably his wip, to triumph against the forces of Evil. Welcome to the City of Brass.
The road to videogame success is treacherous. Release too early, or without major features, and you’ll risk alienating you fanbase and ruin your chances to sell the right amount of copies. Wait too long, and players will lose interest and buy something. And for Little Green Men Games, developer of Starpoint Gemini Warlords, the challenge consist in releasing a « complete » product, while still providing additional content for the months – and maybe the years – to come.
One. More. Turn. A known feeling for any fan of strategy games, especially for the gamer who likes to build his empire slowly, methodically, be it on Earth or in space.
It’s been a wild ride: following the very last moments of the fifth and ultimate episode of Orwell, some time is necessary to catch our breath. And for the people at Osmotic, the team behind the game, the experience was thrilling… and exhausting.