How many hours in your life have you sat watching loading screens? Two? Twenty? Two hundred? Enough, right? Wouldn't it have been nicer to be entertained with a mini-game while you wait? There's a ...

Want to add something more interesting than artwork and trivia to your loading screens? Now you can. Previously, developers were unable to integrate mini-games into their loading screens thanks to a ...

Want to add something more interesting than artwork and trivia to your loading screens? Now you can. Previously, developers were unable to integrate mini-games into their loading screens thanks to a ...

Decades ago, it wasn't uncommon for games to include mini-games during loading screens - simple games to help players pass the time while they waited for the main game to do its thing. But because we ...

The all-timer example of a killer video game feature gated off from the rest of the industry due to a patent is Namco's brilliant idea to place mini-games within loading screens to, in the patent's ...

Loading screens in classic games like Too Human and World of Warcraft were excruciatingly long, making gameplay frustrating. Even acclaimed games like Divinity: Original Sin 2 and Bloodborne suffer ...

The first time you start up Mini-Games Madness Volume: #1 - Hello World!, you might wonder if it's one of those "haunted" games that try to pass themselves off as normal but are actually scary. The ...

In games, nothing breaks player flow like a loading screen, and in virtual reality this problem is amplified tenfold. ‘Presence’ or ‘immersion’, the magical yet fragile feeling of ‘being there’, is ...