Video: The making of the Xbox Adaptive Controller This GDC 2019 talk covers the process of designing the Xbox Adaptive Controller and how it required the Microsoft Devices team to rethink how they engineered controllers altogether.

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  GB Studio offers a free Game Boy-inspired way to create 2D games 30 years out from the release of Nintendo’s iconic handheld, GB Studio offers a way to create Game Boy-esque games that can be played in browsers or emulators.

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  Get a job: Rockstar Games is hiring a Facial Animator Rockstar Games is hiring a talented animator to create facial animations for characters and animals appearing throughout cinematic and gameplay sequences in its games.

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  South Korean FTC to review in-game purchase policies South Korea’s Fair Trade Commission has laid plans to review the consumer practices, particularly policies dealing with in-game purchases, of game companies. 

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1 Don't Miss: Maintaining tension in Nex Machina "We needed to cut as much of excess fat as possible and figure out what was really necessary to get the feeling you are on the "knife's edge"." - Henri Mustonen, Senior Level Designer at Housemarque.

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  Boldly she rode: How Heaven's Vault reinvents adventure games "Inkle has done something radically original here, a breath of fresh air in a game industry all but stultified by unimaginative impersonations and safe bets," says Gamasutra columnist Katherine Cross on Heaven's Vault.

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1 Blog: What happens when game artists design a mural While 99% of the time we're using our skills to make games, sometimes we get to use them to create something truly special—in this case a mural for a hospital room in partnership with Momentum Children's Charity.

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2 Apex Legends is on the decline with streamers after a record-setting month A report from StreamElements says that Apex Legends viewership has seen a steep decline in the last month as major streamers move on from the game.

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  Blog: The morality of anti-heroes in video games Video game heroes are bastions of virtue admired by players far and wide - but what about villains? Why are some of us drawn to nefarious characters, and what does that say about us?

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  Over half of PUBG Corp's 2018 revenue came from Asia PUBG Corp saw $920 million in revenue for 2018, most of which came from the PC version of its multiplatform game PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds.

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2 Behind Dawn of Man's style of 'ant colony' city-building Dawn of Man sped to the top of the Steam charts last month with its compelling style of simulation and city building. We got with Martiño Figueroa of developer Madruga Works to find out more about the game's development and design.

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  Video Game Deep Cuts: The Panzer At Heaven's Vault This week's roundup includes a Panzer Dragoon series classic postmortem, impressions of the eagerly awaited Heaven's Vault, as well as secret MMO servers, homebrew Game Boy Games & the return of D&D.

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  Video: How co-op VR is used to help train astronauts for space At GDC 2018 a panel of game makers and experts from Boeing and NASA discuss how the tools of game development can be used to help train astronauts for their voyages to the edge of known space.

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  Contributing devs up in arms over Capcom's use of the FB Alpha emulator Developers that have contributed to the open-source emulator and other members of the emulation community are voicing concerns over the deal, with some arguing that FB Alpha can’t be licensed for commercial use. 

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  Get a job: Insomniac Games, Deep Silver Volition, and more are hiring now! Here are just some of the many, many positions being advertised right now on the Gamasutra Job Board.

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1 Don't Miss: Making debugging into a mechanic in Beglitched "While debugging is considered to be one of the more odious aspects of programming, I felt that under the right circumstances, it could actually be exhilarating," says AP Thompson, designer of Beglitched.

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1 Amnesia dev makes the case for why lying to players is sometimes good game design Frictional Games' Thomas Grip explains how considering what players assume about features can sometimes matter more than the actual features themselves.

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  Take me to the hole: Loss and triumph in Astroneer It wasn't until columnist Katherine Cross fell into a hole that she truly understood the genius of Astroneer.

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2 Blog: Referencing objects—Names vs GUIDs A comparison of the main ways to reference objects: names and GUIDs.

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  China's game approval rules will soon apply to HTML5 and WeChat mini-games China's game approval process has undergone a lot of change in the past year or so, including a full-on freeze for most of 2018, but more changes are set to hit the program this month.

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  Blog: Three lessons for narrative game design students Three general lessons for students interested in narrative and game design on communities, supporting people, and the role of practice in trying to improve skills over time.

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  Street Fighter II designer walks through the creation of the game's stranger fighters Akira Yasuda talks about how some of the more unusual Street Fighter characters were born out of an unspoken rule that encouraged them to push the boundaries of their designs.

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2 Blog: Discussing the ins and outs of composing for games at the Library of Congress Composer Winifred Phillips shares a transcript from the Q&A session that followed her lecture at the Library of Congress, the very first video game composition lecture given at the establishment.

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  The imperfect science of Falcon Age's baby bird-based social media marketing Outerloop Games co-founder Chandana "Eka" Ekanayake talks about the baby bird that won Twitter's heart, and also a bit about Disneyland-like level design in Falcon Age.

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  Video: Procedurally creating Manhattan for Marvel's Spider-Man At GDC 2019 Insomniac's David Santiago shares a behind-the-scenes look at the open world pipeline of Marvel's Spider-Man and how it was architected to procedurally author an open-world Manhattan.

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