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Video: Narrative lessons from Road Not Taken
Video: Narrative lessons from Road Not Taken
Spry Fox's Daniel Cook expounds on the narrative design of his "roguelike puzzle game about surviving life’s surprises," Road Not Taken.
Aug. 18, 2015
New platform Fig adds investing to video game crowdfunding
New platform Fig adds investing to video game crowdfunding
Spearheaded by Double Fine alum Justin Bailey, with input from Tim Schafer, Feargus Urquhart, and Brian Fargo, its first campaign is IGF winner Outer Wilds.
Aug. 18, 2015
Riot launches 'tech blog' with League of Legends game dev secrets
Riot launches 'tech blog' with League of Legends game dev secrets
Learn from the developers at Riot Games with in-depth discussions of how League of Legends is created -- from the ground up.
Aug. 18, 2015
This Week in Video Game Criticism: The poetics of ragdoll physics
This Week in Video Game Criticism: The poetics of ragdoll physics
This week, our partnership with game criticism site Critical Distance brings us picks from Kris Ligman on topics ranging from an Ovid's Metamorphoses of ragdoll physics to the recurring themes in the games of The Chinese Room.
Aug. 17, 2015
Get a job: Havok is looking to hire a Software Engineer
Get a job: Havok is looking to hire a Software Engineer
Handy with C++? Cross-platform game engine tech company Havok is looking for a software engineer like you to work on developing tech and doing developer relations at its office in San Francisco, CA.
Aug. 17, 2015
Video: Watch a blow-by-blow account of animating EA's UFC games
Video: Watch a blow-by-blow account of animating EA's UFC games
As part of the popular GDC 2015 Animation Bootcamp, EA's Geoff Harrower and Lee Dowsett deconstruct the complex animation systems that underlie the visceral combat of the latest EA Sports UFC game.
Aug. 17, 2015
Rovio appoints new country director for India and South Asia
Rovio appoints new country director for India and South Asia
Angry Birds creator appoints Anurag Sachdeva as its new Country Director for India and South Asia.
Aug. 17, 2015
F2P studio Rumble sells majority stake to China's iDreamSky for $10M
F2P studio Rumble sells majority stake to China's iDreamSky for $10M
Chinese company iDreamSky, best known for localizing Western games for China, has spent $10 million to acquire a majority stake in California-based free-to-play game studio Rumble Entertainment.
Aug. 17, 2015
Study: 72% of teens play games, but boys overshadow girls in online play
Study: 72% of teens play games, but boys overshadow girls in online play
The Pew Research Center has published a study suggesting that while the majority (72 percent) of teens play video games, teen girls are far less likely to play online than their male counterparts.
Aug. 17, 2015
Amazon Game Studios loses one of its top hires
Amazon Game Studios loses one of its top hires
UPDATE Amazon has been staffing up for big-time internal projects, but it's lost a key staffer -- Gamasutra can confirm that Splinter Cell dev Clint Hocking has left the company.
Aug. 17, 2015
Hackers Can Replace Apps on Your Android Device with New Vulnerability
Hackers Can Replace Apps on Your Android Device with New Vulnerability
Android Device | IBM researchers presented a zero-day vulnerability which allows hackers to replace apps on a device without permission.
Aug. 16, 2015
Video: Your brilliant idea has been done before -- but do it anyway
Video: Your brilliant idea has been done before -- but do it anyway
Real talk: Your amazing, innovative, one-of-a-kind game/story/character/song has almost certainly been done before. Probably more than once. At GDC 2014, Nika Harper explains why that shouldn't stop you.
Aug. 14, 2015