Modders are already starting to chip away at GTA 5, but this is arguably the biggest breakthrough so far: OpenIV, a modding toolset used to access and edit Grand Theft Auto IV and Max Payne 3, has been updated to support GTA 5. While you shouldnt get too excited about this right now, as the program does not allow for editing of the games files. But if we know the pc modding community it is only a matter of time.

Boston, MA - April 12, 2014 - In front of a sellout crowd at PAX East 2014, ReedPOP, the world's leading producer of pop culture events, and Penny Arcade, one of the largest gaming communities on the Internet, announced the addition of a new PAX event to the calendar - PAX South. Slated to debut in San Antonio, Texas in early 2015, the southern addition marks the fourth PAX show and third to occur in the U.S., continuing the traditio... [ There's more ]

In case anyone here is local to Los Angeles + interested in video game development and / or "The Last of Us", the Creative Director and 2 designers from Naughty Dog will be giving a design panel this Thursday night @ the Art Institute in Santa Monica.

Trust is a critical part of a multiplayer game community - trust in the developer, trust in the system, and trust in the other players. Cheats are a negative sum game, where a minority benefits less than the majority is harmed.
There are a bunch of different ways to attack a trust-based system including writing a bunch of code (hacks), or through social engineering (for example convincing people that the system isn't as trustworthy as they thought it was).
For a game like Counter-... [ There's more ]

Infinity Ward scripter (now at Respawn) Mackey McCandlish is doing walkthroughs of stuff he worked on starting from CoD1. Some really insightful information both tech and design wise on how CoD came to be and is designed – you just have to be patient with him dying a lot (especially in Chateau), but he gets better in later videos.

Chateau -- CoD1 prototype / pre-proof of concept level for making a WWII game.

Once again we packed up our gear and headed out to Seattle for PAX Prime 2013. We came, we saw, we got t-shirts. Check out our special episode of MODSonair as well as the interviews we managed to get.

The mysteries behind the artifacts and events of Dead Space 3 are unveiled...

Isaac returns for the third entry in the Dead Space series, this time with some friends in Co-Operative mode!

A personal thank-you to all of the men & women of the service - and to those who had stood before them - for their sacrifices so that we wouldn't have to.

In Flanders fields the poppies blow
Between the crosses, row on row,
That mark our place; and in the sky
The larks, still bravely singing, fly
Scarce heard amid the guns below.

We are the Dead. Short days ago
We lived, felt dawn, saw sunset glow,
Loved and were loved, a... [ There's more ]

Tiny Troopers (by Kukouri & Iceberg Interactive) was originally released for mobile platforms, and has recently been released for both PC and Mac via Steam.

Sit down and strap yourself in for a somewhat humorous take on war in this RTS, as you guide a miniature sized squad through a multitude of missions that take aim on bringing big fun back into gaming.