Dice Summit: The mood at the game industry’s Oscar awards: happy but cautious

Dice Summit: The mood at the game industry’s Oscar awards: happy but cautious

The Interactive Achievement Awards at the Dice Summit represents the industry’s chance to get excited about what it does and to give away the equivalent of the Oscar to its best game developers.

The awards show is always an interesting place to observe the state of… Continue Reading

Dean’s top ten family games of 2008

Dean’s top ten family games of 2008

As always, my other top-ten games lists were chock full of the violent fare that I enjoy. But family games are big in my house too, so here’s my list of the best family games of 2008:

1. Wii Fit (Nintendo Wii) Nintendo. May 2008. Yes, this… Continue Reading

Q&A with Kareem Ettouney on Sony’s great hope: LittleBigPlanet for the PlayStation 3

Q&A with Kareem Ettouney on Sony’s great hope: LittleBigPlanet for the PlayStation 3

NEW YORK CITY—Sony is pulling out the stops to celebrate the launch of a critical game, LittleBigPlanet, from developer Media Molecule. In the game, you can customize a group of ragdoll characters and use them to solve puzzles to navigate a visually cute world that… Continue Reading

Dean’s top ten video games of E3

Dean’s top ten video games of E3

As promised, I’ve followed up on my most anticipated games of E3 with an actual list of the top ten games of the show. I spent four days checking out games and interviewing executives at the Los Angeles media and game business summit. Clearly, I… Continue Reading

Dean’s most anticipated games of E3

Dean’s most anticipated games of E3

For the first time in a few years, I’m not one of the E3 judges who evaluate the best games of the video game industry for GameCriticsAwards.com. Not to worry. I’ve filled up my schedule and I won’t have to try to see every single… Continue Reading