An apparent leak of the digital edition of July's issue of Game Informer spoils a surprise from Respawn Entertainment that was probably intended for next week's E3 extravaganza.
Epic Games today launched the Unreal Engine 4 Integrated Partners Program, bringing together more than a dozen middleware technologies and software platforms.
Caspian Prince stirred up a hornet's nest when he declared the demo dead. Now, he's back to defend his point, add context, and dispel misunderstandings arising from his original blog post.
Online retail giant Amazon has launched an "Indie Games Store" on its website, with the aim to highlight indie games and help indie devs reach more consumers.
Tower defense is a popular genre for indie and mobile games -- and Goal Defense's developer shares the secrets -- and the math -- behind the balance in the popular smartphone game.
A year ago, Facebook announced that it was abandoning its Facebook Credits system, in favor of local currencies. From September this year, the Credits system will finally be killed off once and for all.
BioShock Infinite designer Tynan Sylvester examines why complex simulations often fail to impact players -- and how using tricks of the human psyche, you can design ones that will.
You Don't Know Jack developer Jellyvision Games has rebranded as Jackbox Games, announcing intentions to directly bring its games to new platforms.
"The game business has succumbed to High Concept Disease," writes J.C. Herz, in this column reprinted from a February 1998 issue of Game Developer magazine.
Some of the most interesting people in game development present "progressive, philosophical, future-looking game design inspiration."
From Apple's products to OUYA, from Microsoft to Nintendo -- what platform makes the most sense for indie developers? And Yet It Moves developer Martin Pichlmair considers the issue.
"Treyarch is looking for a passionate and talented user experience designer to build compelling and accessible interfaces for our games."
"When you play a game, who are you?" asks Droqen, creator of IGF finalist Starseed Pilgrim -- and in this post, he explores different approaches to the tension between player and character.
There are frequent calls for more diversity in game development. What does the future look like? Here, three academics report their findings on the demography of game dev students.
The blue blur himself will be gracing Ouya consoles later this month, with three previously released mobile-ready titles headed for the platform.
App Annie has launched a new version of its mobile data tracking database today, with new tools that will allow customers deeper and near real-time access to the insights the company's data provides.
Will developers learn better if their tool tutorials are gamified? Autodesk tried it with 3ds Max and shares the method and the results in this blog post.
Stephanie Beth, director of documentary Us and The Game Industry, writes about the creative process of Journey and what drew her to concentrating on indie developers to begin with.
"Most layoffs are sad... This was the opposite." - a former OMGPOP employee describes how his team felt after being laid off by Zynga earlier this week.
Deadlight's puzzle system just wasn't working, writes designer Lucas González -- until the team dropped the constraints of the "puzzle" for something simpler yet more satisfying to players.
The troubled public funding saga of Precursor's Denis Dyack-helmed Shadow of the Eternals entered a new chapter today with Precursor announcing the freezing of its Kickstarter campaign.
Market analyst group Newzoo projects games to reach a $70.4 billion global industry in 2013, with significant growth in Latin American and Asian-Pacific markets.
A handful of experienced devs offer some career advice on how to break into the games industry for a down-and-out QA contractor and Kotaku contributor.
You can't let trolls take over your community. But what do you do? Adam Saltsman (Hundreds) discusses why trolls do what they do -- and how best to deal with them.
Rich Vreeland, better known as Disasterpeace (Fez) shares code for and explains a generative music system -- a "springboard" to use to leap into the world of code-based tunes.
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With new consoles being introduced this year, you can expect post-E3 hangovers to impact your team...
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