"The way that the music is calming, and even quiets down as you pause to think about a tricky puzzle, really lends itself to a sort of †puzzle-solving meditation†style of play..." ...
Dirt dev Codemasters is losing its executive leadership following its acquisition by EA earlier this year. ...
The EA-owned game development studio unveiled its new name and look today, noting in a blog post that, while DICE remains part of its DNA, the team was eager to carve out its own unique identity as Ripple Effect. ...
Game journalist and streamer Imogen Mellor will be your host for the 35th annual Game Developers Conference. ...
Our colleagues at Omdia will be on hand at GDC 2021 for all your marketplace research needs. ...
"When you find an object you have not seen for a long time, you start to figure out why you had that object. That moment felt very human to me." ...
A subgenre of strategy games, optimization/logistics games have attracted fans to a different kind of gameplay and thinking that I wanted to talk about today. ...
Ubisoft says working from home has fundamentally changed the way games are made, allowing it the chance to increase collaboration on future Assassin's Creed titles. ...
"There†s depth in the Death Trash world," says creator Stephan Hövelbrinks. "It's just consumed in a different way." ...
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Health Scholars is looking for an experienced Unity Software Engineer to help develop virtual reality simulations on multiple platforms including PC and Android devices. ...
Nintendo president Shuntaro Furukawa stated in a recent shareholders meeting that the company has not identified any use of forced labor in its current supply chain. ...
Amazon†s Lumberyard game engine is now fully available as an open source project under the newly organized Open 3D Foundation. ...
In this final post, we discuss four reasons why games need better NPCs: 1) players want them, 2) bad character AI is a creative bottleneck, 3) better collaborative NPCs can make games more inclusive, 4) they're a necessary part of our 3D & XR future. ...
A major Apex Legends on July 4th prevented players from entering matches and forced the team to work on a holiday weekend. ...
The developer of Kristallijn share what interested them in exploring the space between the blinks of a strobe light, and what questions the game aims to ask as players see what lies in the moments of darkness. ...
Sometimes, as a game†s creator and 'the little guy', you feel helpless in the face of 'the big guy'. So let's talk about game platforms, and what devs need from them! ...
In this 2019 GDC talk, Playlines' Robert Morgan breaks down the challenges of designing branching digital narratives for real spaces and real players. ...
Omdia's game console analyst, Matthew Bailey, assesses Nintendo's announcement of its new Switch OLED model and explains why it isn't - and never needed to be - the "Switch Pro" many were expecting. ...
Atari Gaming is pivoting away from its free-to-play mobile game business to instead refocus on premium games for console and PC, and in turn create more titles for its recently-released Atari VCS console. ...
Amazon Web Services will be showing off its Game Tech tools in a sponsored Devnote at GDC 2021. ...
Facebook's first attempt at VR ads on Oculus has fallen flat, but there is still room for ads to become a substantial VR monetization stream that the ecosystem badly needs. However, finding the right formats and contexts for VR ads will be crucial. ...
Nintendo today (finally) officially revealed the next hardware iteration of its highly successful Switch. ...
There's plenty of research suggesting players really want non-player characters to be more believable and meaningful. Let's discuss it here. ...
Video games continue to become more and more complex, and developers need to know that the tools they use are up to the challenge. ...
Take a look back at this chat with Hugo Martin about the combat design of Doom Eternal. ...
Legends of Learning is looking for a Senior Systems Designer for an upcoming game. ...
Doom Eternal executive producer Marty Stratton has announced the cancellation of a promised multiplayer mode for the monster-slaying sequel, driven in part by the COVID-19 pandemic. ...
Hewlett-Packard will be presenting a Devnote session at GDC 2021 focusing on its new Omnicept XR platform. ...
So, we made it through our first Steam festival in one piece. Here's what we learned after running the gauntlet. ...
Take this one with a pinch of salt, but Rockstar co-founder and former VP of creative Dan Houser could be about the re-enter the world of video games. ...
In this post, I want to talk about how most horror games tend to run out of steam before the end, and where things can be improved. ...
Love Island: The Game developer Fusebox Games has reportedly laid off a number of writers and narrative designers. ...
Swedish digital entertainment company MTG has fully-acquired word game developer PlaySimple for an initial $360 million. ...
Over 1.5 million people are now playing cloud-streamed games on Facebook Gaming in the United States every month. ...
Worms creator Team17 has acquired Irish educational app developer StoryToys for an initial $26.5 million. ...
"When we spoke to the people who played the prototype, we didn†t talk about our game, but more about our personal relationship with the word 'No' and how hard it is for us to say it." ...
An Xbox engineer working on the digital storefront was able to use a bug in the company†s testing software to bilk Microsoft for $10 million, and turn it into personal wealth using Bitcoin. ...
Go behind the development of Star Wars: The Old Republic in the lead-up to its launch in 2011. ...
Microsoft is hiring a Senior Software Engineer with a focus in Performance Tooling for its Xbox Graphics team. ...
Humble says that the new iteration of sliders will still allow buyers to customize how much money goes where, but there will be a minimum amount earmarked for Humble from every purchase. ...