Episodic video games aren't for everyone, are they? There's something beautifully cruel about them, because they hook you, get you involved and committed, and then... they make you wait. Sometimes ...

Editor’s note: Figuring out episodic content is definitely one of the industry’s greatest conundrums. Stephen uses the format of older games to explain how stuttered story dissemination isn’t so ...

Right after the Capcom panel on the making of Street Fighter IV, I rushed on over to Room 3 in the San Diego Convention Center to catch a gathering of some of the luminaries of the modern adventure ...

Hideo Kojima has taken to Twitter to share some behind-the-scenes details on Metal Gear Solid V: Ground Zeroes on its 9th anniversary, revealing the game was initially an experiment for a series of ...

The pilot episode is the way TV companies find out if an idea is good. Often the pilot isn't great but will generate the feedback to convince whether an idea has enough potential, as well as what ...

Epic Games VP Mark Rein is no stranger to controversy. Outspoken and honest, his statements always make for good headlines - and carry significant weight, given the huge success of the Unreal ...

Before the public comes storming into the 2008 Games Convention in Leipzig, there's three days worth of developer-focused panels called the Games Convention Developers Conference. Like the Games ...

Telltale's co-founder, Dan Connors, has said that the developer uses episodic gaming as a form of "license incubation" for creating a successful retail product, at GCDC today, in Germany. During his ...

Katelyn has been a writer since they learned to hold a pencil, but was a latecomer to the world of gaming, gradually falling in love with video games over the course of high school and college. They ...

In a nutshell: A few years after the episodic game formula brought Telltale to its knees, a new studio founded by former members of the Malibu-based company is once again experimenting with a weekly ...

You may have been wondering why pre-orders for Hitman were being cancelled earlier this week. Well, it turns out that Square Enix and IO Interactive have decided to adopt a new release structure that ...