Developer 5th Cell’s highly anticipated title, Scribblenauts, launches tomorrow. I spoke with lead designer and 5th Cell co-founder Jeremiah Slaczka during last week’s Penny Arcade Expo about their quirky little DS game, which was a surprise hit at E3 2009 and crowd magnet at PAX. He also showed me a little demo of what can [...]

Montreal developer Ubisoft electrified a crowd of 5,000 on Friday night with its back-to-back presentations of Splinter Cell: Conviction and Assassin’s Creed II. The Sam Fisher game was first, with Creative Director Max Beland giving the presentation. He stressed that this Splinter Cell will change the way people play stealth-based games. According to Beland, typical [...]

Earlier in September I named Twisted Pixel as my favorite indie game developer of the month. It brings a unique style to downloadable titles that we don’t tend to get very often. I certainly didn’t expect to see Twisted Pixel’s next project so soon, but the developer sent out a press release this week that [...]

Participants at this year’s PAX have the opportunity to check out a 10-minute demo of BioShock 2 and I tell ya, it doesn’t disappoint.
The game takes place several years after the first BioShock. The demo starts off with you waking up and finding out that you’re a Big Daddy. Yes, you get to play as [...]

If you happen to know anyone who looks like an incredibly hot, leggy bespectacled babe with extremely long brown hair, then give SEGA and Maxim a call since they may have a job for her. Or you can wake up from your daydream and continue reading this article. Anyway, the two companies are searching for [...]

As some of you may know, a second film adaptation of the classic children’s book Where the Wild Things Are will be coming out this October. Surprise surprise! There’s a video game tie-in. The video game version will be released on all consoles except the PSP at roughly the same time as the film. Here [...]

Welcome to GameOnn’s new monthly column featuring my personal pick on the best indie game developer. As August is coming to an end I thought it would be nice to give credit to the fine guys at Twisted Pixel for making  games that are built upon such a simple concept, yet deliver on so many [...]

The PS3 doesn’t support backwards compatibility these days. The only way players can experience the classic games from the PS2 era is to either dig out the PS2 or hunt down a PS3 online that does have PS2 support. SCEA decided that no one should be left out of experiencing the God of War series [...]

It’s no secret the iPhone has solidified itself as being a legitimate gaming platform. Once a place where independent developers could show off their work, the App store has gotten the attention of big developers and publishers such as EA and id who release smaller games at an affordable cost. So what about mobile gaming [...]

We all know times are hard these days. A lot of people are out of work or had to serious cut back on their spending habits. We gamers are no different from anyone else when it comes to the all mighty dollar. We need every dime we can get and those dimes that we do [...]