Icarus Studios News

... Blockbusters. Portables aside, developers are designing blockbusters with new twists. Fallen Earth, due for PCs this spring (fallenearth.com), mixes post-apocalyptic, first-person-shooting action into the usually more sedate massively multiplayer world. You emerge from a compound in 2156 into a Mad Max-like environment to explore the story of a shadowy corporation. "We feel like we have a really unique mix here," says project manager Colin Dwan. "It gives you this feeling of something bigger than yourself that you are participating in." - Read more »

Why do video games based on movies and TV series somehow suck the life out of the original property they are based on. Bad planning, says Marc Fernandez of Marc Ecko Enterprises. So when Fernandez wanted to create a video based on the TV series Dexter, he opted to start small—with an iPhone game. - Read more »