Bit.Trip Runner’s bits take the trip to Steam today

Bit.Trip Flux isn’t the only release in Gaijin Games’ abstract series to arrive today. While CommanderVideo’s journey is ending today on WiiWare in Flux, his highly-choreographed run is just getting started on Steam with the debut of Bit.Trip Runner for PC and Mac

PSN-exclusive ‘Amy’ inbound from Flashback creator

You may know French game designer Paul Cuisset from what is widely considered his masterwork, Flashback , an adventure game released by Delphine Software in 1992. You might also know him from his work on what is widely considered to be a really bad game ..

Now Playing: February 28 – March 6, 2011

No, for real. You had a fly on your face. Choose your platform to jump to a specific release list: Continue reading Now Playing: February 28 – March 6, 2011 Now Playing: February 28 – March 6, 2011 originally appeared on Joystiq on Mon, 28 Feb 2011 17:00:00 EST.

‘Painting with Pixels’ crowdsources 8-bit art during GDC

GDC isn’t just a place to witness developers speaking passionately about their chosen craft, it’s also a place to take part in random acts of nerdery, as evidenced by this year’s “Painting with Pixels” project. A 20×8-foot wall sitting in the belly of the Moscone Center’s North Hall holds 5,760 2×2-inch spots, each spot anxiously awaiting a colored block.

Gaikai is live with streaming demos of Mass Effect 2, Dead Space 2 and more

Following more than a year of media demos and beta testing, cloud gaming startup Gaikai is letting the public try out the fruits of its efforts: Demos of Mass Effect 2 , Dead Space 2 , Spore and The Sims 3 are all playable from within your web browser. That is, if you have the bandwidth — we don’t, apparently.

2K Australia studio head resigns in the middle of XCOM; 2K responds

Earlier this month, internet snoop supererogatory noticed 2K Australia’s studio head Martin Slater resigned, right in the middle of development on the upcoming XCOM reboot.

3DS disassembled, put under the microscope

Believe it or not, this may be what puts the “3D” in 3DS . The image above is an extreme closeup of what the Nikkei Electronics Teardown Squad believes to be a “parallax barrier,” the magical component that forces the left and right eyes to see different parts of the handheld’s screen

We’re live from GDC 2011, in sunny San Francisco

If San Francisco suddenly seems a bit stranger and a bit more wonderful, it could be thanks to the global game development community’s annual pilgrimage to the Game Developer’s Conference. This year marks the conference’s 25th anniversary and, to celebrate, it’s featuring nearly a dozen classic gaming post-mortems like Prince of Persia , Maniac Mansion and Doom . That’s in addition to our usual gauntlet of interviews, demos, meetings and late nights.

PS3 shipments blocked in Europe as LG wins preliminary injunction

The struggle between hardware manufacturing juggernauts Sony and LG — the latter of which claims that the PS3 infringes on a number of its patents relating to Blu-ray technology — has finally drawn some blood. The civil court of justice in the Hague has granted LG a preliminary injunction for customs to seize and confiscate all PS3s coming into Europe (from manufacturing plants, etc.) for up to ten days. The Guardian reports that the collected consoles are temporarily being kept in Dutch warehouses until the case moves forward

Hunted: The Demon’s Forge preview: Through thick and thin

Hunted: The Demon’s Forge has a major problem.

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