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RuneScape developer Jagex has named former Codemasters exec Rashid Varachia as its new chief financial officer. ...

The entire team at Dundee-based developer Orthrus Studios has been made redundant following the launch of its most recent title, Distant Kingdoms, in May this year. ...

Puzzle platformer Toodee and Topdee offers an interesting perspective on a classic genre. Here's how developers Dietzribi turned a Ludum Dare prompt into this perspective-swapping puzzler. ...

PlayWay shared with its investors some very focused and precise data on Car Mechanic Simulator 2021 - so let's analyze it in detail! ...

What made XCOM: Chimera Squad so dang compelling? Lead designer Mark Nauta told us how Firaxis broke the strategy series down to its juiciest bits in this 2020 interview. ...

Behaviour Interactive has announced that Dead by Daylight's Stranger Things-branded DLC will no longer be purchasable after November 17, 2021. ...

The California DFEH has filed a request asking a court to compel Riot Games to inform employees they are legally able to discuss their experiences with state regulators. ...

Sponsored: Gamasutra speaks with StackPath CMO Nathan Huey who explains how StackPath's edge computing can help game studios, publishers, and tech providers the means to deliver top-tier network performance to their customers. ...

Insomniac Games is looking to hire a combat designer who can tackle a number of different game design challenges. ...

Roblox has announced that it's acquired Guilded, an online communications platform similar to Discord, with features tuned for organizing online game communities. ...

Nintendo has won an injunction against the operator of ROM site RomUniverse, and now a judge is ordering the site operator to 'permanently destroy' all of its pirated games. ...

Today we're looking at best practices for creating a framework for crafting a game economy that keeps your audience persistently enthralled and coming back for more. ...

Global investment fund Altor has purchased a majority stake in Swedish publisher Raw Rury for an undisclosed fee. ...

Games have strong interaction with all the users. How to retain players is a problem we want to explore more. ...

UK-based augmented and virtual reality game studio XR Games has secured $2.1 million in funding to expand its development team. ...

"We noticed that we regularly were too exhausted to play the kind of games we used to like. So, we started working on a game that we could play even when we didn't have energy for anything else." ...

If you love Control, you'll love this look at the Brutalist architecture that inspired The Oldest House. ...

Historians Bob Whitaker and John Harney play Old World. Topics include the game's perspective on the ancient world, Old World's layers of decisions, and comparisons to Sid Meier's Civilization and Paradox games. ...

Sony PlayStation is hiring a Live Ops Analytics director to manage the data that drives games like God of War, Horizon Zero Dawn, and more! ...

Remedy announced today during its quarterly financial report that over 10 million players have played Control. ...

As a veteran Mafia player and as an aspiring game designer launching my first game on Kickstarter, I will share my two cents on the emergence of online multiplayer social deduction games. ...

Here are seven tips for Unity (plus a bonus one) that I have found very helpful when working on our VR project. Hopefully, these tips will make life a bit easier for you if you are just starting out. ...

Starform has raised an additional $5 million to fund the development and marketing of its upcoming release, and scale up the team for future projects. ...

Learn about how Frostpunk managed to tell a grim story without descending into despair or dark comedy. ...

Amazon Games has loosened its rules on personal game projects, a few weeks after the overly restrictive rules were roundly mocked on Twitter. ...

tinyBuild is looking for an excellent communicator and a multitasking person with strong problem-solving skills a passionate for video games to fill the role of a Senior Producer. ...

Update: A number of Activision Blizzard employees have spoken out publicly about poor working conditions for quality assurance testers at the company. ...

Update: Roblox has bought up Bash Video, Jim Greer's post-Kongregate startup, and hired him as a new director of engineering at the company. ...

Check out all the great classes available in the GDC Masterclass Fall section. ...

Spec Ops: The Line creative director and designer Cory Davis has opened a new game studio called Eyes Out with Nine Inch Nails guitarist Robin Finck. ...

An analysis of the relationship between an economy and the placement of resource spots in multiplayer level design. ...

Game service provider Keywords has acquired Romanian art creation studio AMC for €2.8 million. ...

Konstantin Koshutin, creator of Highfleet discusses some of the design decisions that went into this new take on the simulation strategy genre. ...

Angry Birds creator Rovio has acquired Turkish hyper-casual studio Ruby Games in a multi-million dollar deal. ...

Exploring design considerations in creating a video game to evoke meaningfulness through the lens of various disciplinary perspectives such as philosophy, psychology and spirituality. ...

Glu Mobile leaders Nick Earl and Eric Ludwig are stepping down just months after the mobile company was acquired by EA for $2.1 billion. ...

Twitch has pledged to do more to help protect marginalized content creators from harassment. ...

Industry vets Alex Hutchinson and Reid Schneider, co-founders of the new studio Raccoon Logic, respond after a photo of the mostly-white, mostly-male team at their studio received pushback on Twitter. ...

Update: Activision Blizzard has confirmed earlier reports that Diablo 4 game director Luis Barriga has departed from Blizzard, along with two other high-level employees. ...

Question, the team behind The Magic Circle and The Blackout Club, is hiring a Senior Gameplay Engineer. ...