This week, our partnership with game criticism site Critical Distance brings us picks from Zolani Stewart and Cameron Kunzelman on topics including race and the recent "Left Behind" chapter of The Last of Us.
The director of 1994 hit X-COM: UFO Defense shares the story of designing the seminal real-time base management sim and turn-based tactical combat title in this free video.
There's a lot of good advice out there about game development, and a lot of bad advice. Today, we took to Twitter to try to get a taste of both the best and the worst.
Chinese developer Junxue Li explains how Chinese mobile game players perceive the very act of paying for a game, with a dash of history and pop psychology to help you understand.
Game Developers Conference has just confirmed a vendor session from Sony Computer Entertainment America that you’ll want to keep an eye on.
Conference organizers share more details on Ryan Payton's talk about the design challenges of developing Republique, as well as the perennially popular Rant Apocalypse and GDC Microtalks sessions.
The fact that Citybound creator Anselm Eickhoff found the latest SimCity underwhelming isn't surprising; what’s surprising is how he dealt with the disappointment -- by building something better.
This asymmetrical co-op heist to erase all student debt is like two games in one, where one player engages in first-person stealth action as a thief, and the other solves puzzles and manages resources as a hacker.
$75,000 goal, but $250,000 raised -- how did Darkest Dungeon do so well? Tyler Sigman explains, and shares the stats, in this blog post.
Mega Man creator Keiji Inafune announced that he has partnered with Japanese developer Inti Creates to create Azure Striker Gunvolt, a side-scrolling action game for the Nintendo 3DS.
Apple has refused to post Intern Saga: Trademark Lawyer, a free iOS game that takes a critical look at King's Candy Crush Saga legal action, without giving a good reason, writes its developer.
When Niklas Hansson left Activision Blizzard subsidiary Massive Entertainment in 2008, he took a little break from video game development. But he never did lose the itch for making games.
With less than two weeks remaining before GDC 2014, organizers share more details on the ever-popular Experimental Gameplay Workshop session led by Robin Hunicke and Daniel Benmergui.
Three Rare alumni gathered to create fairytale adventures for kids in the tablet space -- and this is the story of the development their most ambitious project yet.
When Rickard Westman and Henrik Flink first decided to make a game together, it didn't go so well. Now the pair is turning heads with its game Pavilion, an experience pulled from that initial wreckage.
For anyone who follows Radiangames, his latest announcement will come as quite the surprise. For his next trick, Schneider has swapped his neon-filled blast-em-up style for... a Powerpuff Girls game?
With the Chinese console ban easing, what will happen to the market -- and what opportunities to localize your games might be? An insider takes a look.
Prison Architect artist Ryan Sumo is flying to Kyoto for BitSummit, Japan's premier indie event -- and this blog post not just tells his story, but shares tricks for presenting on the cheap.
What better way to understand the difficulty of creating replayable narrative games than to experience it first-hand? This Twine game blog post from Ben Serviss illustrates the principle in action.
The game animation experts behind GDC's Animation Bootcamp answer questions from the development community. Even if you don't work directly in animation, this is worth a read.
With 1.2 million units of The Room 2 solid, the acclaimed franchise has now hit 5.4 million units total, Fireproof Games co-founder Barry Meade reveals.
Lara Croft's reboot is about to cross the 6 million unit threshold with help of next-gen versions, Square Enix's head of product development reveals.
A digital download for the the popular racing game will be available to new Xbox One buyers for a limited time, Microsoft has announced.
Gamasutra talks to the aptly-named Paralect Team about its Independent Games Festival-nominated Paralect, which is up for the Excellence in Narrative award.
GDC 2014 is less than two weeks away, which means now is an ideal time for attendees will All Access passes to schedule meetings using the Business Matchmaking system established by GDC organizers.
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Why I'm doing open development on my next game.
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