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Video: How Bungie built the technology to render Destiny
Video: How Bungie built the technology to render Destiny
At GDC 2015, Bungie's Natalya Tatarchuk cracks open the renderer Bungie developed for its striking, open-world cross-platform shooter Destiny to show fellow developers how it works.
June 26, 2015
Making gender matter: Lessons from tabletop RPG Night Witches
Making gender matter: Lessons from tabletop RPG Night Witches
How can you make gender relevant and interesting without subsuming characters beneath stereotypes? Night Witches, a tabletop RPG based on female members of a real Soviet bomber regiment, has some answers.
June 26, 2015
Koji Igarashi on the power and responsibility of being Kickstarter-funded
Koji Igarashi on the power and responsibility of being Kickstarter-funded
Gamasutra had a chance to sit down with Koji Igarashi and talk about the successful Kickstarter campaign for Bloodstained: Ritual of the Night, and how he feels about breaking records, and breaking free.
June 26, 2015
Devs work with Apple to restore games cut for Confederate flag use
Devs work with Apple to restore games cut for Confederate flag use
After a surprise culling yesterday, reports are coming in from affected developers that Apple is allowing games with Confederate flag imagery back on the App Store -- with some caveats.
June 26, 2015
Robbie Bach remembers lessons learned from a decade leading Xbox
Robbie Bach remembers lessons learned from a decade leading Xbox
In a new interview with Polygon to promote his book, former Xbox chief Robbie Bach shares some interesting anecdotes about what it was like behind-the-scenes at Microsoft during the Xbox and 360 eras.
June 26, 2015
Video: An art direction autopsy of Firaxis' XCOM: Enemy Unknown
Video: An art direction autopsy of Firaxis' XCOM: Enemy Unknown
At GDC 2013, XCOM: Enemy Unknown art director Greg Foertsch digs into the art design process of doing a big-budget remake of a seminal title like the original X-COM: UFO Defense.
June 25, 2015
Get a job: Retro Studios seeks a Character Artist
Get a job: Retro Studios seeks a Character Artist
Nintendo-owned developer Retro Studios (Donkey Kong Country: Tropical Freeze)is looking for a character artist to do modeling, texturing and art design in Retro's Austin, TX office.
June 25, 2015
Stonehearth studio nets $4.5M to keep making PC games
Stonehearth studio nets $4.5M to keep making PC games
Indie studio Radiant Entertainment has secured $4.5 million in investments from firms like London Ventures Partners as it continues to develop its Kickstarted PC game Stonehearth.
June 25, 2015
Want to find the right game? UC Santa Cruz debuts a new discoverability tool
Want to find the right game? UC Santa Cruz debuts a new discoverability tool
It's a big problem: Players can't find the games they might like. And developers can't locate prior art, either. Here's an attempt at solving discoverability issues.
June 25, 2015
France loosens up the rules for video game tax breaks
France loosens up the rules for video game tax breaks
Mature games are now eligible for funding, retroactive to projects from 2014 -- and the government is getting more flexible about smaller-budget games and staffing costs, too.
June 25, 2015
Make a game like it's your last, and burn bright
Make a game like it's your last, and burn bright
Advice from the Fire Emblem team: The venerable series had reached its conclusion -- but Awakening revitalized the franchise, and now it's a core Nintendo series.
June 25, 2015
Apple pulls games that feature Confederate flag from the App Store
Apple pulls games that feature Confederate flag from the App Store
Amid reignited controversy surrounding the use of the Confederate flag in America, Apple has reportedly pulled all games that feature the flag from the App Store.
June 25, 2015