Roy Shapira invites you for Petrograd adventure

Roy Shapira is a brilliant game designer, dedicated to the point that you might call him a workaholic. After single-handedly completing his award-winning Crysis mode “Combat Training”, which took him 9 month of work, he now leads an 18-members game-developing team in order to create “Petrograd” -  a viable independent AAA game by 2009. In this interview [...]

Petrograd – The Official Trailer

In the last post we wrote about game designer Roy Shapira and his ambitious project – Petrograd. Today, Roy and his group released official in-game trailer. Here some more information about the upcoming video game, Petrograd: Petrograd: an action-thriller first person shooter. Enter the shoes of a Black-Ops Special Agent, investigating the disappearance of a full city’s [...]

Ohad Barzilay’s “Mytopian” vision

In a perfect world, you could interact with your friends online anyway you want. There would be no boundaries, no limits on platforms or networks, and you could pkay or chat with your buddies from system to system any time… Sounds nice, eh? Problem is, this vision is quite Utopian (like Ohad Barzilay’s Mytopia suggests. Many [...]

Vera Sachs, Patent Seeker: Looking for your Game

Vera Sachs is a paralegal in a patent register office but she doen’t look or act like you would expect from one. With fresh attitude and sharp mind, she came to the Game UnConference to find the next best Idea. Nothing, not even the world financial crisis, will prevent her from finding the newest game addiction.

The truth behind Motion gaming

CamTrax brings motion to games everywhere. They are doing what every company dreams of: much more for much less money. Yaron, the founding CEO saw the potential of controlling games with gestures, several month before the Nintendo WII came to be. He created his company in order to turn every webcam equipped computer into a physical playing [...]