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Guacamelee! As to Some Qs!
Guacamelee! is an upcoming action-platformer in the Metroidvania style for the PlayStation 3 and PlayStation Vita. Drinkbox Studios, the creators of the Tales from Space series, developed the title as a cross-buy game for Sony. The Canadian developer has worked hard on the title since its early stages back as a simple PowerPoint presentation in 2011 to the [...]
Larian Studios Designer Farhang Namdar Talks Dragon Commander
Larian Studios is a Belgian game studio best known for their hardcore role-playing games (RPG). The developer established in 1996 is responsible for the Divinity RPG series. However, Larian’s upcoming game strays from RPG to the world of real-time strategy (RTS). Dragon Commander is a RTS game mixed with RPG, third-person action and board game [...]
PDP Discusses Gaming Accessories
Performance Designed Products, better known as PDP within the industry, specializes in affordable video game accessories such as headsets and controllers. At the recent International CES in Las Vegas, our own Joe Van Fossen had a booth tour to discuss some of the new PDP products coming in 2013. Gaming Illustrated (JVF): This is Joe [...]
Flutter: Butterfly Sanctuary Interview with Director Tim Nixon
Flutter: Butterfly Sanctuary is an iOS game in which players collect and nurture butterflies in their natural rainforest habitat. Developers Runaway and Mobage worked hard to recreate the realistic habits and lifecycle of butterflies in the freemium title. Previously only available as a Facebook game, Flutter: Butterfly Sanctuary has been completely reworked for iOS devices. Gaming [...]
EVGA Talks New PSUs and 2013 Strategy
At the recent International CES in Las Vegas, EVGA was gracious enough to invite Gaming Illustrated to its suite at the Bellagio. There, they unveiled their new line of high quality, performance designed Power Supply Units (PSUs) as well as showcased their existing 2012 product line. We sat down with veteran product manager for EVGA, [...]
Sam “Samwise” Didier Discusses Everything Blizzard
Sam “Samwise” Didier has been an Art Director at Blizzard Entertainment since 1991 and is responsible for creating and directing the artwork for all franchises that the company has produced, including StarCraft, WarCraft and Diablo. He remains a popular figure in the video game industry and has a reputation with Blizzard fans as being a [...]
NVIDIA Discusses Tegra 4 and Mobile Gaming
At the recent International CES in Las Vegas, Gaming Illustrated met with the folks from NVIDIA to discuss the upcoming new Tegra 4 chipset. If you aren’t familiar with the technology the Tegra 3 is the much heralded chipset made popular in many Android-powered devices, such as the Google Nexus. We met up with Doug [...]
Interview with Darbee Vision’s Aaron Spann (HDTV Technology)
Darbee Vision is a company whose product, the Darblet DVP 5000, received positive reviews from this site and others. The product enhances the HDMI video signal to produce a superior signal displayed on your television, be it for HDTV, Blu-rays or even video games. At the recent International CES in Las Vegas, Gaming Illustrated sat [...]
ZOTAC Unveils New ZBOX Units at CES
ZOTAC is a company well known for its top performing video cards, but the company has also had success in Mini-PCs, known as the ZBOX line. These ultra low impact systems come with everything you need, save for an operating system, for a nice performing HTPC or other similar use case. We met up with [...]
