As we dabble in how to "measure" PR, I thought I would share some insights on the past month and how (some) games were covered by media.
Social games company Kabam is looking to take advantage of its current positive financial situation, announcing this morning that it has acquired San Francisco-based studio Phoenix Age.
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Hearthstone lead designer Eric Dodds shares insight into the game's design and explains how its small team signals a significant departure from Blizzard's typical approach to development.
Facebook is announcing the return of its F8 conference, last held in 2011, as a developer-facing event with practical tracks centered on building games and apps.
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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.
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