Journey’s art director starts his own studio

Visual mastermind Matt Nava started Giant Squid, where he'll work with Journey's composer and Flow's designer.

Ouya confirms March 28 console shipping and hires ex-Journey developer Kellee Santiago

The company shows that Ouya is still gathering momentum as the little console among the living room giants.

Indie studio Thatgamecompany raises $5.5M to create magical games for wider audiences

The journey of indie game developer Thatgamecompany is about to get a lot more interesting. The maker of Journey, a big hit and highly original game on Sony’s PlayStation Network, has raised $5.5 million from Benchmark Capital.

The Santa Monica, …

GamesBeat Weekly Roundup

Here are some of the stories that ran on GamesBeat this week. We’re running more articles exclusively in the GamesBeat section of VentureBeat, particularly when they’re mainly of interest to our game readers. The broader-interest posts will continue to run …

Journey team loses one of its co-founders

Kellee Santiago, co-founder of Journey developer Thatgamecompany, has decided to leave the Santa Monica, Calif.-based game studio that she started with Jenova Chen, according to Gamasutra.

The split is described as an amicable one, and Santiago said it was time …

A roundup of stories from the Game Developers Conference

Our GamesBeat team is exhausted after five days of covering the biggest show for game developers in San Francisco. Here’s a day-by-day roundup of the major stories that we wrote from the Game Developers Conference this week. We’ve also thrown …

How Thatgamecompany designed its new game, Journey

Kellee Santiago is co-founder and president of Thatgamecompany, the Santa Monica, Calif.-based game studio she started with Jenova Chen. After three years of work, the company’s Journey game on the PlayStation 3 will go on sale as a downloadable title …

Journey will take you into the cloudy heights of video game artistry (review)

Your first words when you start playing Journey, the new PlayStation Network game from Thatgamecompany, will be something like “Wow,” or “Cool!” From the moment you start walking through the sand, you know you’re in for a different kind of …