Sony Online Entertainment acquired successful online card game PoxNora -- and its developers learned a lot of hard lessons they applied to their next game, and share here.
Valve has been a big supporter of virtual reality games and hardware in recent months, adding official Oculus Rift support to a handful of its own games earlier this year.
This year saw Apple introduce gamepad support for iOS devices. Now Android is about to get its own take on the mobile game controller, as Samsung today revealed its own controller hardware.
DayZ, the zombie survival game that started as an Arma II mod, was released as a standalone game earlier this week, and subsequentally racked up 142,403 sales within its first 24 hours on sale.
Free-to-play consultant Ethan Levy discovered that the world of IAP can be perplexing to novice users. He explains why an "off button" would be a good option for some audiences.
Gamasutra editor-at-large Leigh Alexander continues our end-of-the-year series by sharing her picks for the best games of 2013.
Revenue on the Google Play store jumped up significantly this year, alongside significant increases in total mobile app revenue across Japan, China and South Korea. Mobile developers, pay attention.
Moving a design from punishing failure to rewarding success is a change all players appreciate, writes Toni Sala, and layering a reward system with many types of rewards is great for casual and hardcore players.
UPDATED The Smithsonian American Art Museum recently added video games to its permanent collection for the first time: Ed Fries' Halo 2600 and thatgamecompany's Flower.
The juries behind GDC 2014's Independent Games Festival will include highly lauded developers deciding the finalists for the Excellence in Visual Arts and Excellence in Audio Awards.
The latest mobile game to make a meteoric rise up the revenue charts is Knights and Dragons, the product of a partnership between Gree's San Francisco studio and IUGO Mobile in Vancouver.
Gamasutra editor Mike Rose continues our end-of-the-year series by sharing his picks for the best games of 2013.
Designer and educator Lewis Pulsipher often hears the advice that developers should play as many games as possible -- but is it good advice? To a point, and then...
In an interview with AllThingsD, Benchmark's Mitch Lasky talks about the untapped potential for mobile games to quickly build large playerbases in new markets via distribution on social networks.
Defender's Quest developer Lars Doucet explains how continuing to develop his game resulted in spikes in sales throughout its lifespan -- creating a lucrative long tail.
Hail is a tech demo from Midnight Status that is experimenting with a neat twist that could quite possibly feature in the future of video games -- 3D-rendered video chat built into games.
Extrasolar is a tough game to describe, but here goes: It's a free-to-play alternate reality browser game about exploring an alien planet, that doesn't actually use the free-to-play business model.
James Coote went to Microsoft's outreach event in London for its ID@Xbox program. While some details are NDAed, he offers his thoughts on the value of attending and the program itself.
Patent reform legislation is making its way through Congress -- but what should we expect from it? Attorney Jonathan Sparks explains what's happening right now.
Apple has revealed its top mobile game picks for 2013, honoring Ridiculous Fishing from Vlambeer and Badland from Frogmind as the top iPhone and top iPad games of the year respectively.
Gamasutra contributing editor Kris Ligman continues our End of the Year series by sharing her picks for the best games of 2013.
ID@Xbox director Chris Charla has said that the first games in the program will hit "early in the new year... closer to the third month."
1979 - 1994 collection of games and documents from the company best known for the "gold box" Advanced Dungeons & Dragons games heads to the National Museum of Play.
Endemol, producers of reality TV and game shows like Fear Factor and Deal or No Deal hopes to expand its digital reach via investing in Plumbee, a social casino dev started by ex-Playfish execs.
Left 4 Dead designer Michael Booth explains how cooperation was successfully forced implicitly, through enemy design and count, rogue player punishments, vocalizations, and limited resources.
The way we think about concepts like "winning" and "losing" in the world of single player digital...
Kihon Games creative director and co-founder Dan Kopycienski discusses the design decisions made...
A look at some of the best designed games of 2013.
The trend of building custom arcade cabinets for indie installations is more than DIY spirit - it's...
In this article I introduce some OO techniques that can be applied to the Unity3D component...
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