Video: A practical guide to porting your indie game to consoles At GDC 2018 PlayEveryWare's Thomas O'Connor shines a light on the technical and administrative work that goes into getting a console game out the door.

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  The future of PlayStation may be portable, says Sony exec According to PlayStation boss John Kodera, the possibility of PlayStation embracing portable games may again be a part of the company's future.

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  Sony takes a page from Microsoft by licensing customizable PS4 gamepad While Sony previously tried licensed 'pro' PS4 controllers in Europe, the upcoming Scuf controller is the first licensed PS4 gamepad to do away with the DualShock 4's trademark parallel analog sticks.

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  Wargaming Seattle is shutting down Update This is a big deal given that Wargaming Seattle is the Redmond-based studio formerly known as Gas Powered Games, which was founded in 1998 by Chris Taylor and other former Cavedog devs.

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  Weekly Jobs Roundup: Rovio, Saber Interactive Spain, and more are hiring now! Here are just some of the many, many positions being advertised right now on the Gamasutra Job Board.

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  Blog: Producing tangibly minatory creatures in games Monsters make for daunting foes whose demeanor stands out from standard baddies, but there's more to a creature than just the level of fear they elicit.

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  Don't Miss: How RuneScape maintains its prolific update schedule In this 2016 GDC session, Jagex's Conor Crowley covers how the development team for RuneScape moved from an established development process to multiple agile cross-disciplined teams without missing an update.

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2 Jagex shutting down RuneScape Classic after 17 years RuneScape developer Jagex has announced that it will shut down RuneScape Classic on August 6, 2018, ending support for the early online game 17 years after its first launch.

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  Blog: Game design beyond screens and joysticks - Part 2 Tatiana Vilela dos Santos is an indie designer and digital artist making games with special interfaces, and she wants to talk about game design beyond the world of screens and joysticks.

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  Nintendo is selling a dock-free 'Second Set' Switch bundle in Japan Nintendo is selling a slightly cheaper Switch bundle that doesn’t include a dock or an AC Adapter to help the Switch become a multiple-units-per-home device.

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  Chat with Pillars of Eternity II: Deadfire director Josh Sawyer at 3PM EDT We're streaming Pillars of Eternity II: Deadfire and chatting with the game's director at 3PM EDT.

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3 Crunch can put devs at odds with their own mental health, warns Blizzard dev "We have to take care of our mental health because we put a lot of a pressure on ourselves,"​ cautioned Blizzard's Thiago Klafke.

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6 Blog: Five productivity tips for solo devs Working solo is hard. Procrastination, distraction and lack of motivation can destroy a project. Here are five simple tips to help solo developers stay productive and finish their games.

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  Minecraft surpasses 100M users in China on PC and mobile The Chinese version of Mojang's blocky builder is a free-to-play release, and is operated by internet technology outfit NetEase. 

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1 Sony: The next PlayStation is another three years away Speaking to The Wall Street Journal, the Japanese console maker revealed the next PlayStation won't surface for at least another three years.

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  Blog: Defining variance and understanding replayability For the final part of my look at replayability, we're going to talk about what variance is, and how games have to be designed to be replayable.

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2 Art Design Deep Dive: Rendering the player as a form of pure energy in Recompile Phigames' Phi Dinh writes about how the studio's upcoming Recompile's humanoid protagonist rendered as a form of pure energy, using instanced cube meshes with a custom shader.

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  Video: How For Honor addressed its post-launch problems In this GDC 2018 session, Ubisoft's Damien Kieken and Roman Campos Oriola discuss the story behind For Honor as it traveled from beta, through its launch, to its first post-launch year.

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1 EA acquires GameFly's cloud gaming service Electronic Arts announced its acquisition of the cloud gaming technology assets and personnel of GameFly today.

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8 We Happy Few refused classification by Australian ratings board Australia’s regulatory board that doles out ratings for games seeking release in the country has refused classification to Compulsion Games’ We Happy Few, effectively banning the sale of the game in Australia.

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  New studio Neon Giant launched by former Wolfenstein devs Former Wolfenstein, DOOM, Bulletstorm and Gears of War developers have teamed up to form the Swedish-based studio Neon Giant. 

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  Get a job: Disbelief is hiring a Junior Programmer Disbelief is looking for a full-time junior programmer to work on everything from gameplay to core engine programming as a member of its team in Chicago, IL.

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  UK government takes aim at online games in Internet Safety Strategy response Video games were listed among the many online spaces being scrutinized by the United Kingdom government ahead of new laws that would aim to make the internet and social media safer for UK citizens.

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  Building a light-hearted puzzle game around Friday the 13th's Jason Voorhees “As with Slayaway Camp, we were aware of a fine line when doing comedy this dark," says Friday the 13th: Killer Puzzle dev Nate Schmold. "It can easily cross over from gross-but-funny to just nasty."

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8 Don't Miss: Tim Sweeney on the creation and legacy of the Unreal Editor On the 20th anniversary of Unreal, take a look back at this chat with Epic founder Tim Sweeney about how the UnrealEd level editor emerged as one of the most popular tools of its era.

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