according to The far side editor, Gary Larson's creative process was more like a novelist than a cartoonist – which is what made him create such a unique, unique work. during his career. For artists, Larson's process offers insight into how to create work that is unmistakably their own. In his presentation The Complete Far … Read more
Creative UK has launched a fund aimed at small and medium-sized creative businesses in the North East of England. The non-profit organisation says its aim is to “give recipients the creative freedom to exclusively test ideas and develop a new product or service for the benefit of the sector”. THE North East Shared Success Fund … Read more
By Ubisoft Star Wars Outlaws is the latest in a long line of single-player open world games from the multinational developer/publisher, but if it surprised you that Tom Clancy's The Division development studio, Ubisoft Massive, was in charge of the project, you'd be right. Although part of the team was working on Avatar: Pandora's FrontiersThis … Read more
A co-founder of Stonemaier Games, the publisher responsible for releasing board games such as Wingspan and Scythe, has confirmed that the company will not use AI in the creation of its titles. AI has become an increasingly frequent topic of conversation in the tabletop gaming industry and community, with several companies discussing its use or … Read more
More than a year since the publisher of Dungeons & Dragons abandoned its publicly maligned fight to change the popular tabletop role-playing game's Open Game License, Wizards of the Coast has announced that its upcoming rulebooks will release their material under a Creative Commons license. A new system reference document, called SRD 5.2 by Wizards, … Read more
“2024 has been a pretty fucked up year for gaming, so I can say ‘fuck that shit’ on the count of three,” says Good Afternoon co-founder and executive producer Sarah Brin, opening an electric slalom of Hyper Talks at AMAZE Sheffield. Those in attendance duly surrendered. Brin took the podium briefly (Hyper Talk speakers are … Read more