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Since time immemorial (or at least the 20th century) games have been designed so that players move through levels while overcoming challenges. But if you're making a game that's mainly…
The Gamasutra Job Board is the most diverse, active and established board of its kind for the video game industry!Here is just one of the many, many positions being advertised right now.…
After months of detailing store changes and features coming to its new self-publishing platform, Valve has announced that today is the last day for its soon-to-be-replaced service, Steam Greenlight. As…
Despite the fact that Derek Yu's Spelunky was released for Xbox 360 last year (while the original version has been available for PC many moons now), the game is seeing…
Blizzard has reworked the way it handles Overwatch loot box sales in China in response to a new law that requires game publishers to disclose the probability of item drops…
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Prune is a tiny mobile game about the simple pleasures of growing and cultivating trees.Of breathing life into barren soil and thriving against all odds in a hostile, indifferent world.…
Rapper, producer, and fashion mogul Kanye West has stepped into the world of video games today with the announcement of Only One, a game that depicts his late mother, Donda West. "The idea of…
The future of Activision Blizzard is, indeed, all-in for eSports. Some trends emerged in the company's latest results and, particular, its conference call, which suggest that this is a major…
Newly-acquired Activision Blizzard subsidiary King has reported its revenues for its holiday quarter, the three months ended December 31, 2015, as well as its full 2015 fiscal year, and everything seems…
For the fourth quarter of Activision Blizzard's fiscal 2015 -- the three months ended December 31, 2015 -- the company's earnings are down year-on-year, though digital revenues have increased to…
The Gamasutra Job Board is the most diverse, active and established board of its kind for the video game industry!Here is just one of the many, many positions being advertised right now.…
So you want to make a procedural platformer. You want it to spit out levels on demand, and you want the levels to be awesome, challenging, and fun. You want…
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Things are not looking good aboard the Iktomi. For the last few weeks, my crew of four (down from six after the meteor storm) had been doing an excellent job…
The Gamasutra Job Board is the most diverse, active and established board of its kind for the video game industry!Here is just one of the many, many positions being advertised right now.…
Survey: Hearthstone appreciated as more strategic, less exciting than League of Legends Consulting firm Quantic Foundry has synthesized data gathered from surveys filled out by over 140,000 game players to…
This interview is part of our Road to the IGF series. You can find the rest of our Q&As by clicking here. Kingdom, from indie developers Noio and Licorice, could be called…
Investor Bloc Ventures led a recent $5 million round of funding for Marmalade, maker of the Marmalade 2D/3D game engine that drives mobile games like SimCity BuildIt and Godus. Game developers with an interest in…
User interface design is often neglected until the final stages of game development, but giving the issue even a modicum of consideration at the outset of your project can pay…
Heads up, mobile game makers: cash prize platform Skillz, which lets you accept and pay out real money, has rolled out support for cross-platform tournaments between Android and iOS devices. While mobile…
"Ironically, the most influential aspect of Dungeon Master, a hugely influential game on its own terms, might just be its fuzzy-bit copy protection. Various forms of optical media continue to…
French media conglomerate Vivendi has earned $1.1 billion from the sale of its remaining stock in Activision Blizzard, roughly 5.7 percent of the company, to an unnamed buyer. As part of…
The Gamasutra Job Board is the most diverse, active and established board of its kind for the video game industry!Here is just one of the many, many positions being advertised right now.…
Activision Blizzard is reportedly being sued in French court over what the family of deceased Angolan rebel leader Jonas Savimbi claim is an inappropriate depiction of the man in Treyarch's 2012…
As the independent game industry swells and developers in general grow more comfortable expressing personal experiences through their work, we're seeing more games truck with the realities of game development itself.…
In 2010, Capcom COO Haruhiro Tsujumoto told analysts that his company would pursue a new strategy -- in which the internal development teams in its Osaka studio would forge ahead…
Half-Life 2 modder-turned-indie developer Richard Seabrook has begun taking pre-orders for Prospekt, a standalone Half-Life game made -- with Valve's approval -- using official Half-Life 2 assets. It's a bit remarkable given that most game companies are…
The McArthur Law Firm, which specializes in video game law, is making a show of formally protesting Sony Computer Entertainment's recent attempt to trademark the term "Let's Play." The interesting…
The following blog post, unless otherwise noted, was written by a member of Gamasutra’s community.The thoughts and opinions expressed are those of the writer and not Gamasutra or its parent…
Lucky's Tale, a platformer built from the ground up for virtual reality, will come free with every Oculus Rift headset. This is the second game Oculus is planning on bundling with its…
This is going to be an examination of the first combat encounter in The Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past. We are going to step through the level…
Following my top 5 games of the year list, and in the vast expense of holiday 2015 time with room to chill out and actually _think_, I had the opportunity…
Newsbrief: The Nintendo 3DS has sold over 20 million units - 20.03 million, to be exact - in Japan since launching back in February 2011. The handheld system surpassed the 20…
Nintendo's NX is one of the video game industry's biggest mysteries. Announced back in March as a game platform with "a brand-new concept", no one really knows what form the NX…
The following blog post, unless otherwise noted, was written by a member of Gamasutra’s community.The thoughts and opinions expressed are those of the writer and not Gamasutra or its parent…
The following blog post, unless otherwise noted, was written by a member of Gamasutra’s community.The thoughts and opinions expressed are those of the writer and not Gamasutra or its parent…
DreamWorks Animation is further expanding its How to Train Your Dragonfranchise into games that teach kids about science and technology, while its VFX and gaming divisions find new applications for…
FOUNDED BY ROVIO ALUMS, SERIOUSLY IS TRYING TO DO "HOLLYWOOD BACKWARDS" BY BUILDING OUT ENTERTAINMENT FRANCHISES WITH GAMES AT THEIR CORE. Andrew Stalbow remembers the "a-ha" moment that led…