Like many indie developers, TimeGate Studios’ origins are humble. “We set up a card table and called it TimeGate. That was a little over 12 years ago,” president and CEO Adel Chaveleh recalled during our recent meeting. “We knew the game we wanted before we knew how the hell to make a game,” he added with a wide grin. That game was Kohan: Immortal Sovereigns, which went on to earn an 87 Metacritic score and a handful of awards.
Today, TimeGate isn’t far from launching its first digital-only title, Section …

Interstellar Marines, the indie AAA shooter by Zero Point Software, has been in development for a long time now. But they want you to keep the faith and support them in realizing their dream of creating a AAA indie game without a corporate publisher to tell them otherwise!
The good Reverend Anthony had a minor quibble about the space marine thing a year ago. But as long as the game is good and the shooting mechanics are solid, I couldn’t care less whether you are a space marine, a scientist with …

You might think of a laser as light forced into a single, directed beam, but scientists have recently discovered that if you fire a laser in one direction, the air itself can fire another right back. Using a 226nm UV pump laser, researchers at Princeton University managed to excite oxygen atoms to the point that they emit infrared light along the same channel as the original beam, except this time pointed back where it came from. Since the return beam’s chemistry depends on the particles in the air to generate …

Oddworld brainfather Lorne Lanning has revealed that Just Add Water is working on a full HD remaster for the classic PlayStation title, Abe’s Oddysee. On the one hand, it’s sad to see that it won’t be an all-new game. On the other, it’ll be cool as Hell to see that game in HD.
“Abe HD is going into production,” revealed Lanning. “It’s basically Abe’s Oddysee being redone in a 3D physics engine as a 2D side-scrolling platformer. So the way Just Add Water wants to approach it, we thought was very smart; they …

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It’s a Dead Space kind of week with Dead Space 2 and its portable brother filling the gaming section. Hope you are still clamoring for some handheld talk because Sony’s NGP steals the spotlight for a huge chunk of the show. What were they thinking? Don’t be an insta-dummy, put down that Redbook and catch this week’s Joystiq Podcast.
Thanks to Alan Black for this photoshop of the boys bringing the scares.
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Dead Space 2‘s hardest difficulty setting is unlocked upon the completion of single-player. Hard Core mode, as it’s appropriately dubbed, limits you to three saves. Only three. And when you die, you start back at your last checkpoint. F*ck!
As demented as that sounds, it might just be worth for the unlock. I don’t want to ruin the surprise for anyone, but I will say that the item in question can go “bang bang” and “pew pew pew.” Their words, not mine. Anyone here going to give Hard Core a shot?
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Tiger Woods PGA Tour 12: The Masters doesn’t just add the titular tournament of masters — for the first time, caddies will feature in EA Sports’ golf sim. The club-toting sidekicks have been introduced in an effort to make the game more accessible to players that don’t know much about real golf (let alone the great luxury of a personal sidekick).

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Say it with us, finally a PS3 firmware update that actually does something useful! We’ve grown so accustomed to Sony refreshing the software on its console just to spite jailbreakers that we almost started to believe that’s all the word “update” entailed. But, here comes Kotaku with word that v3.6 of the PS3′s firmware will come with a neat little addition: saving games to the cloud. This seems a very logical step toward delivering Sony’s overall goal of giving users a holistic, integrated experience. Indeed, during the NGP presentation, guest …