Aug 4, 2011

May’s Mysteries: The Secret of Dragonville will be hitting shop shelves very, very soon (12th August in fact). We tracked down developer V5 Play Studio to ask some questions; but not before solving puzzles for complete strangers we met along the way, and looking for a fork hidden in a paddling pool full of spoons. CG: Why release your first game on DS?...

Jul 29, 2011

Having played through Bastion and come out the other end with a praiseful grin on our collective face, Critical Gamer accosted writer and level designer, Greg Kasavin, for a chat about Supergiant Games and their latest release. Critical Gamer: Bastion is your first game, which means there’s a lot riding on it. Was it difficult balancing elements proven to...

Jul 25, 2011

Petroglyph President and Co-Founder Michael Legg has seen many sides of this industry in his career as a lead programmer and occasional designer. He’s most famous for his work at Westwood Studios, where he gathered 17 years of valuable experience and stories . After that, Legg decided to co-found his own studio; Petroglyph. With the majority of the studio...

Nov 1, 2010

What would be in your perfect world? In ours Dubya would never have decided to “help” Iraq (where nobody would ever have heard of Saddam Hussein), it would rain chocolate peanuts, and Ant & Dec would have followed through on a suicide pact many years ago. None of which Perfect World Entertainment can help us with, sadly; but their Director of...

Oct 24, 2010

Rather than the humorous introduction we would usually write for e mail interviews (which, while daft, make it clear that the article which follows is a question and answer format) we thought that today it would be best to directly quote Michael Pachter himself, from the most recent e mail received from him: “Please make sure you mention that you solicited...