Oculus VR, developer behind the upcoming Oculus Rift virtual reality headset, has obtained $16 million in Series A funding through Spark Capital and Matrix Partners.
Gamasutra will not be reporting on the monthly NPD Group U.S. video game sales releases for the foreseeable future. EIC Kris Graft explains why.
Most "serious games" exist for some other purpose than to be played, says scholar and designer Ian Bogost, suggesting at 2013's Games for Change that earnestness, not seriousness, is what's needed.
Games For Change award nominee Data Dealer is designed to help players understand the risks to their privacy online -- and this Q&A from the conference reveals more about its development.
The industry can make small, impactful games -- and nowhere is that more evident to Journey developer Robin Hunicke than on her latest project: Working with kids to make games.
The Witcher developer CD Projekt RED is expanding to a second studio in Krakow, Poland, managing director Adam Badowski confirms.
For developers considering jumping in when the U.S. lets the doors open, this post from Betable's William Chambers offers hard data on how big it could potentially be for game developers.
Copenhagen-based Hitman: Absolution developer IO Interactive has laid off half of its work force and canceled non-Hitman projects, in order to consolidate resources on the franchise.
This week, our partnership with game criticism site Critical Distance brings us picks from Johannes Koeller on topics including representations of religion and aniwey's Candy Box.
Want to go off-road? This jam-packed tutorial offers C++ code snippets for simulating water, mud, and different lighting conditions in a natural driving environment.
As announced last week at the Worldwide Developers Conference, Apple's next update for iOS devices, iOS 7, will add a kids games category to the iTunes App Store.
"CCP is actively searching for a Technical Game Designer to work on the upcoming World of Darkness MMO."
Clark Gibson and John O'Brien of Red Storm Entertainment (Rogue Spear, Shadow Watch) discuss improving AI, with a focus on designing, organizing, and implementing team AI in this free GDC video.
In a bid to fight the monetary race to the bottom on the iOS App Store, 2K and Firaxis Games today announced that the upcoming iOS version of XCOM: Enemy Unknown will cost $19.99.
A lawsuit against pop star Beyonce Knowles, in which a game developer claimed that the singer dropped out of an agreement to develop a game based around her persona, has been settled.
Even the biggest-budget title can have the drama sucked out of it by bad lip synch, argues indie developer Ben Serviss -- who suggests some clever workarounds culled from games of the past.
Ever heard of Survivor Squad? The first standalone PC game from a Flash developer has been on sale for a month -- and he shares his stats to help you gauge how well a no-hype indie can do.
Naughty Dog's The Last of Us saw the biggest launch of a new IP in the UK sales charts last week since L.A. Noire in early 2011, while Animal Crossing: New Leaf was also a big hit.
Square Enix has launched a new mobile game studio in Indonesia, as the publisher says that game development efforts in the region have significantly increased over the last several years.
Gamasutra editor-in-chief Kris Graft isn't as down on this year's E3 as he was last year's. Here are thoughts on cynicism, development talent and letting go.
Insomniac Games: "We are looking for a designer to help develop and create content for the assigned project in the form of systems, levels, features and modes."
Brian Provinciano reflects on business and programming lessons he learned being a one-man developer and publisher, in this GDC 2013 lecture.
In an Investor Meeting hosted by Wedbush on June 12th, EA disclosed that its PopCap acquisition was unlikely to make back more than a fifth of its $550 million earnout.
Bugs aren't all bad, argues Gaia Interactive's Greg Pollock. They can lead to inspiration, he says, if you "ask what a different game would look like where the mistake was instead correct."
Social games are designed to extract money from players rather than meet their emotional needs, writes producer Rosstin Murphy, who contrasts the '90s toy with Zynga's design ethos.
Applied Virtual Economist Ramin Shokrizade introduces the concepts of "group monetization" and ...
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What's the psychology behind cheating and dishonesty, and what are the factors that can reduce or...
In mobile gaming we are continuing to see too many "me too" game designs the latest incarnation of...
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