Indie devs, know your limits

“We have a tendency to try and do everything ourselves,“ Capybara’s Nathan Vella tells Nordic Game. “It works in development, but not in promotion.”
No spin-off, Codemaster's latest is as crucial to the series as any of its predecessors.

The provocateur filmmaker reminisces about locking himself in the bathroom with his trusty Sega Genesis.

A rollercoaster of setpieces and measured, varied objectives.

At Team 17 or translating German at Blizzard and Synthesis Games.

Our June issue, featuring Crysis 3, is out now.


“We have a tendency to try and do everything ourselves,“ Capybara’s Nathan Vella tells Nordic Game. “It works in development, but not in promotion.”

Announcing the winners of our Unity game making competition.
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President Randy Pitchford tells Nordic Game how its expansions made a franchise for Valve and laid the foundations for Aliens: Colonial Marines.

As Ustwo pulls 'clone' from App Store, Die Gute Fabrik's Doug Wilson clarifies his position on the controversy.

No spin-off, Codemaster's latest is as crucial to the series as any of its predecessors.
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From Mario to GLaDOS, James Leach considers what makes a successful game character.

A match-three puzzler that’s both familiar and richly surprising.

A musical action-strategy which wastes its strong ideas with sloppy execution.

EA's solid sequel introduces plenty of new ideas, but at the cost of its predecessor's homespun charm.

The provocateur filmmaker reminisces about locking himself in the bathroom with his trusty Sega Genesis.

A rollercoaster of setpieces and measured, varied objectives.

The judges' verdicts are in and the winner of a Unity Pro licence and trip to Amsterdam will be revealed on Thursday.
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At Team 17 or translating German at Blizzard and Synthesis Games.

Nintendo adds colour-matching to its spin on the sport.
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Bungie to receive $2.5 million bonus per game if gamerankings.com score 90 or more.

How Ninja Theory is allaying fan fears by retaining the devilish core of Capcom’s series.

Illustrator Jon Caplin's first game is an homage to Bullfrog's 1989 classic

PopCap's Giordano Contestabile dares to dream of the possibilities in what will be one of the defining trends of the next few years.

TT Games employee tweets image of revised tablet design, featuring proper analogue sticks.

Capcom injects a jolt of adrenaline into the Japanese roleplaying game.
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