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Steam sales drive game purchases. But what is happening on an individual buyer level? How can we make our games and store pages more appealing to increase purchases? I spent hours watching and interviewing players to find out.
Valve's Twitter account has revealed that the company is working on a new Half-Life video game.
Former Uncharted creative director and longtime game developer Amy Hennig has signed on with Skydance Interactive to build a new team alongside fellow EA ex-pat Julian Beak in San Francisco.
This position will lead the Level Design team in the operation of designing, developing, and polishing game levels including level geometry, enemy encounters, puzzles, and unique gameplay.
In this 2019 GDC session, Rockstar North's Miriam Bellard explores the concept of spatial cinematography in theory and practice using examples from GTA V Online DLC.Â
Google has picked five finalists from over 1,500 entries in its second annual Change the Game Design Challenge, a contest that aims to elevate and encourage teenage girls with game design aspirations.
Gamasutra speaks to voice director, consultant and game industry veteran Khris Brown to better understand how high-quality voicework in games comes together from a developer perspective.
The Germany-based browser and mobile game developer InnoGames has generated over $1 billion in lifetime revenue since the studio was set up 12 years ago.
Logitech has created a new 'Adaptive Gaming Kit' to help make the Xbox Adaptive Controller even more accessible.
Oculus Link, the program Oculus announced earlier in the year to make Rift games playable on the inside-out Oculus Quest headset, has launched into open beta.
A diverse group of developers and industry professionals make up the juries of the GDC 2020 Independent Games Festival, and they'll soon decide the finalists for next year's awards!
Google Stadia works great. But the technical side of game streaming might have been the "easiest" problem to solve when it comes to Stadia's overall acceptance and success.
Nintendo is preparing to introduce a subscription plan into Animal Crossing: Pocket Camp, doubling down on the model initially used in Mario Kart Tour last month.
Google has expanded its Stadia launch lineup to 22 games, mere hours before the cloud-gaming platform officially rolls out on November 19.
Does genre affect your success odds? Using a database of review count-based revenue projections, we dive deep into sales trends on Steam. We look at which tags sell the best, as well as sales trends in release date and review score.
This week's roundup looks at games from Superliminal to Jedi: Fallen Order and Pokemon Sword & Shield, plus behind the scenes at the ESRB & lots more.
Sources speaking to Kotaku say that BioWare and parent company EA haven’t given up on Anthem, the studio's ambitious online shooter that launched with little fanfare earlier this year.
Bungie's Destiny-centric pledge drive brought in $1.6 million in charitable donations during its first event.
Here are just some of the many, many positions being advertised right now on the Gamasutra Job Board.
In this 2017 GDC session composers Mick Gordon, Jason Graves, Grant Kirkhope, Wilbert Roget, Rich Vreeland and Austin Wintory share stories of lessons they learned in the professional trenches.
The annual charity fundraising event Desert Bus for Hope has, as of the close of its latest marathon, raised over $6 million for charity in the 12 years since its very first run.
Devs around the industry (including Nina Freeman, Kevin Snow, and Claire Hummel) reflect on how the venerable virtual pet website helped jumpstart their careers in game development.
Double Fine’s business development VP and longtime developer Greg Rice has announced he’s leaving the studio for an unannounced new position elsewhere in the game industry.
Publisher 2K dominated the conversation online during the third quarter of 2019, with Borderlands 3 and NBA 2K20 sparking the most game-related internet chatter.
The Gearbox team have always made a point of talking up just how many guns they cram into Borderlands, and at GDC 2020 in San Francisco you'll have a rare chance to see how they fit 'em all in!
Sid Meier once described games as "a series of interesting decisions". But how do you design...
It is important for developers of all fields, be they engineers or artists, to have a grasp on the...
Each week I compile a gaming industry insights newsletter that I publish broadly. Opinions are mine.
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This week's roundup includes impressions of a plethora of new releases, from Superliminal to Jedi:...
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Gregory Pellechi details effective techniques for selling your game's story to your team, including tips for making appealing elevator pitches.
Unlock Audio's Elliot Callighan outlines many functions that audio can serve in game design, giving you additional methods of guiding and immersing your players.
Fery Tomi reflects on the five-year development of The Painscreek Killings, highlighting the difficulties his team faced when crafting a mystery-themed adventure game.
Streamline specializes in tech art and creative execution for video games through its integrated 2D, 3D and Animation services.
We are a 40-people game art production studio based in China, we've been serving the global game dev industry for more than 10 years, providing 2D Concepts, Illustrations, UI graphics, 3D Modeling, Texturing, Rigging, Animation (Key-frame & Spine).
Art Bully Productions was founded in 2008 by 3d art professionals who have years of experience in the video game industry. We pride ourselves on delivering AAA quality work at very competitive rates to developers of all sizes.
