Viber launches Viber Games worldwide Viber launches Viber Games with three titles, Viber Candy Mania, Viber Pop and Wild Luck Casino.

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  Prototyping modes for a competitive typing game "I was imagining a competitive typing game where you would face off against a friend, typing as fast as you can with words / attacks flying in both directions. I thought it to would be very interesting."

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2 Red vs. Blue: Which team should you choose? "The rules of the Olympics stipulate that one competitor is randomly assigned a blue outfit while the other gets red. The researchers found that those wearing red uniforms won a statistically significantly larger portion of their matches."

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2 Water interaction model for boats in video games Avalanche Studios senior software engineer Jacques Kerner (Just Cause 3) walks us through coding "a simplified model that captures the important features of a boat" in this meaty programming article.

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  Road to the IGF: Devine Lu Linvega and Rekka Bell's Oquonie In this interview, we speak to Linvega and Bell about the creation of IGF Excellence in Visual Art finalist Oquonie and its cute but disquieting world.

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2 Blog: Make the kinds of games you can be proud of "Yesterday I started to create some pixel art mockups of how I think the game should look... And a funny thing happened. As I was doing it I realized I felt happy."

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  New net neutrality rules pass, but expect a fight from ISPs The FCC has decided in a split vote to enact new rules that regulate the internet -- but service providers aren't happy about the decision and are expected to sue.

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  Get a job: Wargaming seeks an AI Engineer Wargaming.net is seeking an AI software engineer to work on the company's current and upcoming projects alongside the team in its Chicago, Illinois studio.

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  New DeepMind AI learns to play Atari 2600 games at human levels A team of researchers at Google DeepMind claims to have developed an articial agent capable of learning to play (from scratch) 49 different Atari 2600 games at skill levels comparable to human beings.

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5 Darkest Dungeon, and encouraging the player to have a deep bench "What makes this system so great isn't that it makes things harder, it is that it creates more choices with unclear answers: Questions that are interesting and meaningful to the people in the game world."

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9 Thoughts on turning fifty (as a game developer) Laralyn McWilliams muses on aging in the game industry:"I debated whether to say in public that I’m fifty years old, and what effect that might have on my career."

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26 Don't Miss: How Camouflaj saved République's Kickstarter In this classic postmortem, Camouflaj founder Ryan Payton explains what went right -- and wrong -- in the crowdfunding and development of the studio's debut stealth game République.

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  One of the PopCap co-founders is getting into VR development After leaving EA late last year, PopCap Games co-founder John Vechey has taken the wraps off one of his new projects: Pluto VR, a VR/AR communications software startup.

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  Never Alone leads the 2015 Games for Change award nominees The New York City festival dedicated to celebrating games' positive social impact has announced its list of 2015 award nominees and its "Game Changer" award winner, Tracy Fullerton.

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1 The criteria I used to evaluate arcade games at Nintendo: Still relevant "Perform your own game analysis. Analyze your own game against similar games today and yesteryear. How do they measure up? Define your own key metrics and the criteria you deem necessary for a successful game."

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  Neil Young is back in games, chasing the West's 'Puzzle & Dragons moment' Neil Young and the rest of the core Ngmoco team are back to games at N3TWORK. The San Francisco-based app developer has pivoted to games, and has a couple new titles in the works. We talk to Young.

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  Reminder: On-site registration is available at GDC next week If you're interested in attending GDC 2015 and missed your chance to register online, don't worry! You can still register onsite next week.

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13 Making shooter gameplay more engaging with animated cover An in-depth analysis of an experiment in using different types of animated -- that is, moving -- cover in shooters. "Can we make the most efficient gameplay also the most engaging gameplay?"

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  Make room in your GDC 2015 schedule for these standout talks As everyone finalizes their GDC 2015 conference schedules, we'd like to take a moment to highlight some standout sessions that you should keep on your radar.

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  What to watch out for in AB testing Wisdom earned from six years running an analytics company: "Here are some lessons learned from designing these A-B tests and interpreting the results."

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17 A quick guide to getting your game on the big three consoles A guide to getting in with Sony, Microsoft, and Nintendo from a small indie studio that's been through the process -- "It's way easier to get on the respective platforms then it was some years ago."

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3 Level Design In a Day: An expert roundtable Q&A Level designers behind games such as Gone Home and Sunset Overdrive, and from studios such as Bethesda, Campo Santo, and Blendo Games answer questions about the craft of their discipline.

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13 Announcing contract( ), a free tool for plain-English developer agreements "Contract( ) generates free, plain-English agreements for and between game developers. It’s based on the idea that developers do not need legalese to come to an agreement or to resolve a disagreement."

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  Get a job: Blizzard seeks a Hearthstone VFX Artist The maker of Hearthstone is hiring a visual effects (VFX) production artist to develop new effects, from concept through implementation, at Blizzard's Irvine, CA headquarters.

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26 Don't Miss: Treating 'Old Grumpy Designer' Syndrome In this classic feature, design consultant Alexandre Mandryka examines what happens when game designers have no clear career path, and there's no culture in the studio that helps nurture them.

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