Shoot Many Robots gets M rating, peek behind the developer’s curtain

Demiurge’s still dateless Shoot Many Robots may be closer to release than it seems, as the Metal Slug-esque shooter has been granted an “M” rating by the ESRB for sexual themes, strong language and the use of alcohol. Now, we’re [...]

Journey: Behind the Music

Wondering what goes into crafting Journey‘s beautiful orchestral soundtrack? Thankfully, it has absolutely nothing to do with the stadium rock band of the same name, and everything to do with the Macedonia Radio Symphonic Orchestra. No joke! Journey: Behind the [...]

HP’s Defunct and Failed TouchPad is No. 2 Tablet Behind iPad

All hail the TouchPad, the second most popular tablet in the universe! Wait, what? Believe it or not (and we wouldn't blame you if you didn't), Hewlett-Packard has sold more tablets so far in 2011 than any other company, save [...]

Telltale devs caught juking Metacritic user reviews, studio stands behind them

When Telltale employees aren’t busy getting into protracted online arguments over the handling of promotional Jeeps, they’re apparently artificially boosting the user review score of the studio’s latest release, Jurassic Park: The Game. GameSpot spotted as much this week after [...]

Behind Amazon’s Silk browser lurks a really fast supercomputer

We were hardly shocked to see Fujitsu atop the most recent list of the world’s fastest supercomputers, but perhaps more surprising is the fact that Amazon cracked the top 50, as well. Turns out, the company’s Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) [...]

How an AT&T smartphone comes to life: behind the scenes (part two)

By now, you’re probably getting a pretty good idea at what goes into the development of a groundbreaking smartphone. In part one we followed the development of the Motorola Atrix 4G, discussing the process of how AT&T decided upon a [...]