Nordisk Games acquires 40% ownership of MercurySteam Today, Copenhagen-based Nordisk Games expands its portfolio of successful game studios and announces an investment in MercurySteam, the Spanish company behind such high-profile titles as “Clive Barker’s Jericho”, the “Castlevania: Lords of Shadow...

A few of the Mario classics!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F0QwAhUnpr4 The paper is a collaboration between Nvidia and University of Copenhagen. Cool bananas! The paper: Detailed Rigid Body Simulation with Extended Position Based Dynamics https://matthias-research.github.io/pages/publications/PBDBodies.pdf A more detailed and...

Haven't gotten to around to give Hades a spin. But word on the street is that it's pretty amazing.


How 6 Months of COVID-19 Quarantine Affected Life at Supergiant Games

And now another DK project that went under my radar. Aviator Arcade (2014) And Aviator Arcade II (2018) for Commodore 64 by Mark Hindsbo, Saul Cross and Thomas Egeskov Petersen. A true retro project. Running on the actual the C64 hardware. (That's pretty cool btw) :) The first game was developed in ...

One of my former colleges from the NDS Denmark days has soft launched his little mobile retro inspired space shooter, Danger Grid. The official space time survival simulator. Danger Grid is a retro futuristic action adventure game, with elements of exploring, trading and occasional furious laser com...

Indigo Gaming has a really nice documentary on cyberpunk in gaming and media. Something to enjoy over the weekend. Part 3 is under way. Basically they are summing up a sizeable chunk of my game and media consumption in my younger years. It's also interesting seeing all the cool games and movies pres...

So the kiddo (10 years old) has introduced me to some VR craziness. Ree kid and Emi. It's full on foul-mouthed screaming. Highly immature and not for the overly sensitive types.

VR has truly become a thing of it's own.

Full steam ahead for MSP. Claus Lykke Jensen har tjent stort på populære børnespil - nu vil han udvide forretningen betragteligt Spillet Moviestarplanet, der henvender sig til børn og unge, har givet pæne millionoverskud i de seneste mange år, men ejeren ønsker nu at udvide forretningen med en treci...

Oh had a nice little demo play-through today of Little Nightmares II from Tarsier in Malmö. The demo has been out of a little while. :) I have a few former colleges from my Sweden years working on it. Btw. Never got around to give the mobile game (Very Little Nightmares) a spin. Looked nice though! ...

Oh a bit late here! But Ubisoft also has a few days of free games.
Today is Trials Rising.
Last day is the 19th December 2020.

Grab it on Ubisoft Connect (Formerly Uplay)
https://ubi.li/happyholidays/

Besides the weekly free games on the Epic Store. In approx 10 minutes at time of writing. The daily free game will unlock. There will be a new free game for the next 15 days! 🎮🤓👍 My Epic account is totally ready to recieve the gift rain of more games I will probably never have time to play. 😅 PC gam...

And a new education (or shorter course it seems) for game producers has emerged in Denmark. Not really sure that DK game development ecosystem job market can truly support that role in great numbers. But it's always a great addition. It will mostly likely be people who has entrepreneurial startup bl...

I totally missed this DK release back in april 2018 from Alimote ApS. Sadly it doesn't look like it went running really. The game seems have a fairly strong inspiration in Subway Surfers. But with the some additions like wall running and jump pads. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gwon1UOhAdY GoogleP...

An today is release day for DK developed Headland. By Northplay! Grats on the release! :D An article on DR reveals a bit more behind the game. Dansk spil gør op med forhadt tendens: 'Folk siger, det er idiotisk' https://www.dr.dk/nyheder/kultur/gaming/dansk-spil-goer-op-med-forhadt-tendens-folk-sige...

More cutesy platforming from the DK based developers plus a mostly international team at Gears for Breakfast. The developers of the VERY well revived A Hat in Time. Has announced Here Comes Niko! Frog Vibes is the main studio behind the project. And Gears for Breakfast seems to have a smaller co-pro...

Well... lets celebrate the Cyberpunk bugs then! :) It's safe to say the game should have had some more time in the cooker. Especially on base console! And CDPR has been pulling some wool over peoples eyes. Not cool. But they seem keen on fixing the bugs... Though I kind of like the bugs! At least on...

Great stuff @JonathanTheDev ! XD

And from (DK) Slipgate Ironworks comes a (very) time-limited demo of retro inspired action shooter RPG'ish Graven. Available until the 13th december 2020. Had some problems with the demo not starting at all due to shader errors earlier today. But on another machine I got it running. Just about to gi...

So it's Cyberpunk 2077 launch day! One of the years biggest releases. Also it's my 3 years work anniversary at PortaPlay. But that is >completely< unrelated. ;) There are a near infinite numbers of reviews out there. So I won't bore you with that. But Digital Foundry takes an early look at the rende...

DIGITALE SPIL KAN OGSÅ VÆRE KUNST
Digitale spil er en fortællende kunstart, som udvikles og produceres på højt niveau i Danmark. Kunstfonden støtter danske spiludviklere med arbejdslegater og rejselegater på linje med filmskabere.
https://www.kunst.dk/digitale-spil-kan- ... aere-kunst

Kawaii! :) SUPER NINTENDO WORLD™ Grand Opening February 4th, 2021! As part of Universal Studios. Osaka, Japan. Not the first game IP based theme park. I remember the Chinese doing a rip off World of Warcraft/Starcraft themepark. But his Super Nintendo World looks slick and on point! https://www.yout...

DADIU productions 2020 Gneiss: a misshapen journey http://www.dadiu.dk/gneiss A lonely rock sets out for acceptance, but is smashed to bits in the process. Only a squishy core of flesh remains. Stretch and freely transform your new body to overcome an imposing world. Experiment and find your own fav...