Game Developer

MAY 8, 2024

Developers Jade Jacson, Steve Kirby and Kelvin Moore dive into horror as a genre, why we like to be scared and how game developers can exploit our deepest fears to create a wide range of scares.

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Game Developer

APRIL 18, 2024

It includes a host of new diverse perspectives from top industry game designers.' This updated 5th edition brings deeper coverage of playcentric design techniques, including setting emotion-focused experience goals and managing the design process to meet them.

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Editing Game Design Game Designer Games 325

Game Developer

MAY 16, 2024

'Ultima and Worldbuilding in the Computer Role-Playing Game is the first scholarly book to focus exclusively on the long-running Ultima series of computer role-playing games (RPG) and to assess its lasting impact on the RPG genre and video game industry.'

Games 288

Games 288

Game Developer

MAY 2, 2024

A game's legacy is not just the nostalgia it will come to evoke after enough time has passed. Its legacy is also in the creativity it comes to inspire in the works that arise in its wake.

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Development Games 323

Game Developer

DECEMBER 12, 2023

A ransomware group plans to sell off the personal information of Insomniac Games employees and information on the studio's Wolverine game.

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Games Studios 272

Game Developer

MAY 22, 2024

RS Gaming has been launched in partnership with ESL FACEIT Group, which is owned by Saudi state-backed investment fund PIF.

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Games 337

Game Developer

MARCH 18, 2024

Denuvo's Tracemark tech will let developers create watermarks that could help find who's responsible for leaking games or assets.

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Asset Games Development 244

Game Developer

OCTOBER 9, 2023

The Humble Games Collection is said to be ending in early November, and at time of writing, has nothing waiting in the stands to take its place.

Writing 336

Writing Games 336

Game Developer

FEBRUARY 22, 2024

Good level design must support the actual game mechanics – this affects both level design, and ultimately, player enjoyment. This article shows how we do things with our popular multiplayer mobile shooter game War Robots.

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Mechanics Mobile Mobile Games 277

Game Developer

APRIL 16, 2024

With so many games fighting for players' attention and interest losing out over time, time sink games are at risk of eventually losing steam.

Fighting 324

Fighting Dev Games 324

Game Developer

JANUARY 24, 2024

Talofa aims to use the newly gotten seed money to build upon its debut game, Run Legends, and create other "games for good." "

Mobile 259

Mobile Mobile Dev Games 259

Game Developer

APRIL 29, 2024

million deal gives Phoenix new games and properties to play with, while PopReach gets to now focus on its "core responsibilities."

Studios 166

Studios Games 166

Game Developer

APRIL 5, 2024

In collaboration with one of our senior rigging and groom artists, we aim to demystify this craft and provide in-depth insights into the process of rigging characters for games.

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Rigging Games 251

Game Developer

MAY 13, 2024

Apart from the traditional screenplay and 3d production hurdles, multiverse narratives and games produce even more complex structures of going about the production of ideas and concepts.

Concepts 175

Concepts Games 175

Game Developer

MAY 23, 2024

Rivals become business partners as Atari now controls the rights to 200 Intellivision games, its brand, and future business opportunities.

Games 246

Games 246

Game Developer

MAY 30, 2024

When Black Ops 6 launches day one on Xbox Game Pass, it'll big a turning point for both Call of Duty and the game service.

Games 202

Games 202

PreMortem.Games

MAY 24, 2024

Jason Nicot , a French solo game developer operating under the name Choose Red , recently announced his latest game Sanctua. In this co-op multiplayer game a group of players have to work together to escape a cursed tomb. He went into transportation management, but game development never really left his mind.

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Dev Co-op Games Game Design 237

Game Developer

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

If game designers are to have any success combating toxicity, we must acknowledge that our own design choices are often the underlying systemic cause, and that it is our responsibility to change them.

Game Design 321

Game Design Game Designer Games 321

Game Developer

DECEMBER 19, 2023

Current and former Insomniac Games employees must now grapple with the exposure of deeply sensitive personal information.

Data 312

Data Games 312

Game Developer

DECEMBER 18, 2023

Find out why Alan Wake 2, Hi-Fi Rush, and Humanity were all among the best games we played in 2023.

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Game Developer Game Development Games Development 342

Game Developer

MAY 1, 2024

Game Workers Unite Montreal has joined forces with Canadian trade union CSN to help workers establish unions at major studios in the region.

Studios 321

Studios Games 321

Game Developer

MARCH 28, 2024

Ahead of its revealing its debut game next week, Yellow Brick is switching to self-publishing to 'take control' of its future as a developer.

Games 223

Games Development 223

Game Developer

FEBRUARY 6, 2024

During her 30-year career in games, McWilliams worked on a number of games such as Gears of War 4, Free Realms, and Deal or No Deal.

Game Design 332

Game Design Game Designer Games 332

Game Developer

APRIL 10, 2024

Game industry working conditions are improving, but occupational burnout still runs amok. Studios and workers have the power to slow it down.

Studios 341

Studios Games 341

Game Developer

JANUARY 30, 2024

"It's been five months since the closure of Volition, but I'm grateful to post that a group of us have re-formed as Shapeshifter Games." "

Dev 363

Dev Games 363

Game Developer

MARCH 5, 2024

Hot Wheels and Barbie toymaker Mattel is expanding its video game interests, with a new publishing arm that will "co-devleop" and publish mobile games.

Mobile Gaming 272

Mobile Gaming Mobile Mobile Games 272

Game Developer

DECEMBER 28, 2023

From Dave the Diver to Dredge to Baldur's Gate 3, these are the Games community editorial coordinator Holly Green couldn't put down this year.

Game Developer 243

Game Developer Game Development Games Development 243

Game Developer

MAY 15, 2024

A promising game cashing in on growing enthusiasm for drag performers couldn't find necessary funding.

Fighting 261

Fighting Development Games 261

Game Developer

MAY 9, 2024

This book contextualises this practical guidance within a philosophical framework of how the relatively abled can ethically address accessibility issues within game design.'

Game Design 219

Game Design Game Designer Games 219

Game Developer

APRIL 2, 2024

According to Unity, games that can be played "instantly" present new possibilities for game developers.

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Game Developer Game Development Development Games 325

Game Developer

MAY 29, 2024

Maverick Games, a studio established by former Playground Games devs in 2022, has found a publishing partner in Amazon Games.

Open World 214

Open World Dev Studios Games 214

Game Developer

MARCH 21, 2024

called out the game industry for its consistent inability to support Black devs. Strange Scaffold founder Xalavier Nelson Jr.

Studios 296

Studios Development Dev Games 296

Game Developer

OCTOBER 5, 2023

Epic Games CEO Tim Sweeney says the company began running into financial problems "about 10 weeks ago."

Engine 356

Engine Engineering Dev Games 356

PreMortem.Games

APRIL 3, 2024

Although she enjoyed her time in Turkey and her engineering studies, she decided to leave both behind to pursue her passion for game development. Today she works at Maliyo Games, based in Lagos, Nigeria. I enjoyed the thrill of playing games with friends and family. I still regularly engage in many outdoor games and board games.

Engine 149

Engine Engineering Game Developer Game Development 149

Game Developer

APRIL 19, 2024

'Any developer, anywhere, and in any language, deserves access to funding structures and opportunities to make great games.'

Dev 334

Dev Games Development 334

PreMortem.Games

MAY 21, 2024

There are plenty of city building games around but Fabledom adds a fairytale twist to the genre. Set in a storybook kingdom filled with magical creatures, kings and castles, the game gives players the opportunity to build their own kingdom and find their true love. He never worked on a ‘real’ game either. Making games is hard!”

Games 104

Games Build Studios Shaders 104

Game Developer

APRIL 12, 2024

All told, Baldur's Gate 3 may have had one of the most successful award runs of any game in years.

Games 223

Games 223