The tactical strategy genre is sacred ground. Plenty of developers have tried their hand at the genre but few can get out of the shadow of fabled franchises like Fire Emblem, Advance Wars, and Final Fantasy Tactics.…
Switch driving sales at Nintendo as foreign exchange…
Profits are down at Nintendo, despite Switch hardware and software continuing to drive sales at the Japanese console maker. According to the company's fiscal report for the three months ended June 30, net sales rose…
PlayStation 4 software revenue dips as hardware shipments…
Sony has released its financials for the three months ended June 30, 2019, and it looks like a slight drop off in software revenue has negatively impacted the company's video game division. According to the report,…
PlayStation 4 software revenue dips as hardware shipments…
Sony has released its financials for the three months ended June 30, 2019, and it looks like a slight drop off in software revenue has negatively impacted the company's video game division. According to the report,…
Making the bizarre, hilarious world of Trover Saves…
The VR game Trover Saves the Universe was created by Rick and Morty creator Justin Roiland and shows off much of the show’s trademark bizarre humor: for example, the game’s villain gains cosmic power by…
Dont Miss: The Blue Shell and its discontents
"The Blue Shell is everything that's wrong with America." Ok, nobody said that, but you can imagine someone having done. The Blue Shell steals progress from a rightfully earned win on behalf of the…
Creating terrifying, memorable 2D monsters
Video games have always been fertile ground for experimenting with monster design. While technology has allowed developers to push their artistic limits and build out photo-realistic three-dimensional dioramas of their greatest fears, there's something striking…
Video Game Deep Cuts: GTA Onlines Casino, Game…
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Blog: Implementing data structures – Part 1
Any programmer can benefit from some understanding of different data structures and how to analyze their performance. But in practice, I’ve never found any use for AVL trees,red-black trees, tries, skip lists, etc. Some data structures I just use for…