The Game Developers Conference sees a lot of creativity and interesting ideas pass through the halls of the…
It's not only smaller, younger developers who have to worry about cloning. Idea theft is on the minds of the people at…
Only one award-winning video game developer got violent when I played Tic-Tac-Toe with him last week.
Steph Thirion's games understand the power of touch. While most iOS games require tactile contact to play, so few…
I've never done hard drugs. But I've heard that they're supposed to make you feel invulnerable, ecstatic and…
Markus Persson thinks of himself as more of a programmer than a game designer. "I don't spend a lot of time on…
Games designer, author and all-round very smart man Raph Koster has written a rather interesting piece on his personal…
The creative teams who've made the God of War games have done cruel things to the members of the Greco-Roman pantheon,…
Motion-capture technology's changed the way that today's movies, TV shows and video games look and move. Usually,…
Christina Norman worked for BioWare on Mass Effect. She's with Riot Games now. But she must have felt pangs of sympathy…
Why are so many games just copies of past games? Who is responsible for this state of affairs? Does the industry need…
The Game Developers Conference is nearly done. And what have I learned?
This is from Dan Pinchbeck, writer of PC indie story/thing Dear Esther, while giving a presentation at GDC earlier…
Epic Games' Cliff Bleszinski, speaking at a GDC panel earlier today, gives some practical advice to the fledgling…
When EA first showed off the new SimCity, it didn't show a snip of gameplay footage. It was all idealised, stylish…
The original Fallout was a gamble that paid off big-time; it set in place a tone, gameplay philosophy and fiction that…
If you want to make trees in video games, you can grab a program called SpeedTree and get to growing, pruning and…
Clothes often look horrible in video games. People look like they have their suits and dresses painted on their…
By Wednesday, the Game Developers Conference is really happening. It ramps up slowly every year. You get your mobile…
For as long as there've been video games, there've been attempts to classify the various types of people who play…
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