Postmortem: Midnight Hub's mystery puzzler Lake Ridden Lake Ridden is a mystery-puzzle indie game developed by two artists, two programmers/designers, and one producer. In this postmortem, we'll look back at its two-year production.

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Video: Psychosis and the making of Hellblade In this GDC 2018 talk, Ninja Theory's Dominic Matthews and Tameem Antoniades discuss the delivery of the mental health themes in Hellblade: Senua's Sacrifice.

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  Archiving Will Wright's early design notes for The Sims The Strong Museum of Play spoke with Game Informer recently about obtaining the design documents and sketches from The Sims creator Will Wright.

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  Get a job: Rocket League dev Psyonix is hiring a UI Lead Psyonix is looking for an experienced UI Lead to oversee interface design and development on Rocket League.

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  Destiny 2 devs explain the evolution of Gambit's combo PvP and PvE play Gambit aims to merge the mostly-separate player-vs-player and player-vs-everything sides of Destiny 2, but its creation didn't come without its fair share of struggles.

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3 Devil May Cry 5's microtransactions designed as an 'option...to save time' Devil May Cry 5 will include microtransactions for in-game orbs initially obtained through combat or exploration if players wish to speed up the upgrade process and add buffs earlier.

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1 Don't Miss: The value of taking a narrative approach to level design Game designer Jolie Menzel shared some advice on how storytelling techniques can be applied to level design, drawing on her experience making games at Ubisoft and, before that, Telltale.

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  Free-to-play Warface grabs 1.3M registered players in one week on PS4 Overall, the top six countries, including the US, Germany, France, the UK, Brazil, and Russia, only represent around 62 percent of the title’s total registered PS4 players for week one.

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  XRDC speaker Q&A: Charles Yust on the potential of interactive AR exhibits Charles Yust, principal design technologist at frog, gives a preview of his upcoming XRDC talk about the power of interactive AR exhibits in museums.

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  Report: Guild Wars 2 in-game currency no longer available in Belgium The issue appears to be unique to Belgium, as some players in the country have succeeded in buying gems by using a VPN to make it seem like they're connecting to the store from another region.

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8 Blog: Examining the debate behind loot boxes With more concerns regarding regulating loot boxes, today's post takes a look at the appeal, design, and debate of this polarizing microtransaction.

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  Meet the pioneering Japanese indie behind La-Mulana "We’ve created this with the belief that while times and trends may change, there are always going to be players who want games with real challenge to them," says La-Mulana 2 director Takumi Naramura.

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  Video Game Deep Cuts: The Unavowed Ninja's Red (Dead) Redemption This week's highlights include analysis of adventure title Unavowed, a cover story on Fortnite streamer Ninja, & detailed impressions of Rockstar's Red Dead Redemption 2.

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Video: Designing Titans, the 'moving' levels in God of War III In this classic GDC 2012 talk, Sony Santa Monica's Chris O'Neill and Bruno Velazquez share the development story of making God of War III's Titans from elevator pitch to completion.

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  Stillfront acquires Imperia Online developer for $11M The Swedish firm Stillfront Group announced today that it has acquired developer Imperia Online, known for the medieval-themed MMO strategy game of the same name $11.7 million. 

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7 Telltale Games initiates 'majority studio closure' Update Telltale Games, the studio behind games like The Walking Dead and The Wolf Among Us, is all but closing its doors, the company confirmed Friday.

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25 Don't Miss: Exploring the rise and appeal of Roguelikes In this 2014 feature, Gamasutra speaks to a number of game devs to explore the appeal of Roguelikes, both for players and developers.

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2 Google exploring 6DoF and other features for Daydream VR The in-development features could open up augmented reality and additional tracking possibilities for the standalone VR headset.

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1 Blizzard's Diablo series tapped for possible Netflix show Activision and Netflix look to be pulling together a team to develop an animated series based on Diablo, at least according to a now-deleted tweet from a possible writer on the project.

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  Blog: The interplay between order and chaos in games Game designer and engineer John Nelson Rose takes a look at games from the dual processes of bringing order and wreaking chaos.

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  Blog: How Ragna Cycle turned into All-Star Troopers A look into how Norsfell's latest mobile game, All-Star Troopers, started out as a very different project called Ragna Cycle.

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2 Jagex fires RuneScape moderator for stealing player gold Update "During our rigorous routine system checks, irregular activity was identified on small number of accounts, including the movement of wealth and items back into the live game."

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9 Inside the Awesomenauts matchmaking algorithm Joost van Dongen, lead programmer and co-founder at Ronimo Games, addresses the question at the core of online matchmaking: who should play with whom?

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  Record 78.3 million people played Fortnite in August It's a tidbit that highlights the enduring popularity of Epic Games' last-person-standing shooter, which launched in July 2017.

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2 Blog: A tale of two bugs Games industry veteran Niklas Grey gives a detailed account of hunting down two bugs in The Machinery alpha.

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