Minecraft developer makes "serious" offer to fund Psychonauts sequel
In the annals of video gaming, 2005's mind-bending platformer Psychonauts is right up there with Earthbound and Beyond Good and Evil in the ranks of games that have a devoted cadre of fans eagerly demanding...
DRM server transition to make some Ubisoft games unplayable starting tomorrow
While DRM schemes are designed to make sure only legitimate purchasers can play a game, the opposite will be true starting tomorrow for some Ubisoft titles. That's when a planned server migration will temporarily disable the DRM...
Weekend Time Waster: Solitaire Blitz brings excitement to lonely card clicking
Digital forms of Solitaire have been included with Windows since it reached version 3.0, and they may well represent the most widely played video game series this side of Angry Birds, enjoyed by bored cubicle workers...
Week in Gaming: Misleading game trailers, Online Passes and cat MMOs
This week, an animated trailer for an imaginary Zelda game got us wondering why exactly games often can't live up to the thrilling scenes we're shown in pre-release videos. We also looked at the slow redefinition of what an...
Fun Game: An Unexpected Guest Decides to Hang Out With You…Against Your Will!
Every week Mac Games and More features a fun, casual game you can play over the weekend. This week’s selection has you getting out into the countryside for some peace and quiet but that’s the last thing you find once you arrive… Download it...Atari team rejoins to make mobile titles
Seamus Blackley is one of the co-creators of Microsoft's original Xbox console, and he put together a really interesting team of old-school Atari game developers recently to make mobile games. Blackley's new company is called Innovative Leisure, and ...
The Best iPhone Train Game Just Got Better
A few months ago, Days of Wonder released the $2 iPhone version of their overwhelmingly popular, award-winning board game, Ticket to Ride. Ticket to Ride Pocket amazed everyone by including all the elements of the iPad version in a smaller, tighter, but just as engrossing package...Boom to bust: THQ’s "revolutionary" uDraw now filling warehouse shelves
Back in the long-ago days of the 2010 holiday season, it looked like THQ had a hit on its hands with its out-of-left-field uDraw Game Tablet, a slate-like controller that used a stylus to let...
Bloody *@#%$ Wingsticks! Cutting Edge Shooter Rage:Campaign Edition Hits the Mac App Store
If today’s release of Id’s mind-blowing, Wasteland-themed Rage: Campaign Edition first-person shooter on the Mac App Store is any indication, the days of your mouth-breathing PC friends making fun of you because “you can’t play games on your Mac” may be numbered. That’s because,...Former Xbox Live marketing exec may join Apple
Apple conquered the smartphone and tablet market, and it may be turning its sights on the gaming market next. According to a report from MCV, Robin Burrowes, the Xbox Live marketing manager for EMEA, has left Microsoft to join Apple. Burrowes will su...
Daily Update for February 2, 2012
It's the TUAW Daily Update, your source for Apple news in a convenient audio format. You'll get all the top Apple stories of the day in three to five minutes for a quick review of what's happening in the Apple world. You can listen to today's Apple s...
Final Fantasy XIII-2: better than the last one, but not not by much
Final Fantasy XIII-2 takes place three years after Final Fantasy XIII. Vanille, Fang, Snow and Lightning are gone; either dead, encased in crystal or disappeared to unknown adventures. Serah Farron, Lightning's sister and S...
