It's hard enough to get players to pay for games or items -- so it's dangerous to be unaware of the how the payment process. This blog post explores the complexities of international payments.
Social games studio King is said to be preparing an initial public offering following the success of Candy Crush Saga on Facebook and mobile, according to media reports.
Experienced Flash developer Zac Zidik has been transitioning to HTML5 and written an open-source engine, complete with tutorials posted here on Gamasutra, that you can give a spin.
Forget what you think you know about automated testing. BioWare QA engineer lead Alex Lucas explains why you need to rethink where in the dev cycle you automate and even what you automate.
Games for Change, in conjunction with SEXECT.org, has announced the $35,000 winner of its sexual awareness game design competition, Safe Sex with Friends.
3DS launch title Steel Diver is reincarnating with a new free-to-play entry, Nintendo's Shigeru Miyamoto confirms in a new interview.
Google Play, Twitter, Facebook and YouTube are blocked in China -- so how can Western mobile games succeed? Yodo1's Henry Fong suggests a complete re-write for marketing.
Droqen (IGF nominee Starseed Pilgrim) writes about what really breaks immersion -- bad creative decisions on the part of a game's creator -- and how to use the game's world to "whyproof" it.
"Reporting to the VP of Technology, this role's primary objective is to direct the development of significant tools technology across multiple Activision studios and titles."
While everyone else was focused on the Microsoft-Sony horse race, editor Patrick Miller was paying attention to the Oculus Rift, eSports, and a collection of creator-driven games as the real next gen.
When your game must be played in a group, you should design your business around fostering great group dynamics and not "rewarding narcissists," argues virtual economist Ramin Shokrizade.
Organizers have confirmed a classic postmortem of Kick Off from Dino Dini for August's GDC Europe, also adding talks on Warface's low-end PC optimizations and Heidi McDonald on romance games.
Supercell today announced that it has launched its hugely popular Clash of Clans free-to-play game in Japan -- and a cross-promotion with GungHo will no doubt help it storm the charts.
Its first game was Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles. In a few years, it was building major oceanfaring sequences for Assassin's Creed III.
Rage of Bahamut launched a card battle crazy, but is enough enough? Mobile developer Joseph Kim takes a look at the market after speaking to too many devs following in its trail.
We all know some players will inevitably cheat, but why? This blog delves into the psychology of cheating and the effect it has -- and some solutions to it.
Although Nintendo chose to stay out of the fray at E3 last week, the publisher has come out swinging this week with a large-scale update to its 3DS handheld.
The man behind the massive viral campaign for Portal 2, which employed a dial-up BBS and hidden messages in indie games, shares the secrets of building a successful alternate reality game.
Oculus VR, developer behind the upcoming Oculus Rift virtual reality headset, has obtained $16 million in Series A funding through Spark Capital and Matrix Partners.
Gamasutra will not be reporting on the monthly NPD Group U.S. video game sales releases for the foreseeable future. EIC Kris Graft explains why.
Most "serious games" exist for some other purpose than to be played, says scholar and designer Ian Bogost, suggesting at 2013's Games for Change that earnestness, not seriousness, is what's needed.
Games For Change award nominee Data Dealer is designed to help players understand the risks to their privacy online -- and this Q&A from the conference reveals more about its development.
The industry can make small, impactful games -- and nowhere is that more evident to Journey developer Robin Hunicke than on her latest project: Working with kids to make games.
The Witcher developer CD Projekt RED is expanding to a second studio in Krakow, Poland, managing director Adam Badowski confirms.
For developers considering jumping in when the U.S. lets the doors open, this post from Betable's William Chambers offers hard data on how big it could potentially be for game developers.
This post highlights a number of common traps that many QA Automation strategies fall into. Based on...
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King recently decided to abandon in-game advertising. Why? Let's look at the situation and the...
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