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Watch devs analyze what works about Breath of the Wild's design
Watch devs analyze what works about Breath of the Wild's design
Game Informer hosts Campo Santo's Jake Rodkin, 17-Bit's Jake Kazdal, ArenaNet's Aaron Linde & Ghost Story Games' Ken Levine to discuss (in depth!) the design of Nintendo's new Zelda.
April 17, 2017
Gears of War and Forza devs weigh in on making games for Scorpio
Gears of War and Forza devs weigh in on making games for Scorpio
What can game developers expect out of Project Scorpio, Microsoft's upcoming Xbox revamp? Leads from Forza house Turn 10 Studios and Gears dev The Coalition share their advice.
April 17, 2017
Video Game Deep Cuts: Hearthstone's Zero Dawn Shodown
Video Game Deep Cuts: Hearthstone's Zero Dawn Shodown
This week's VGDC highlights include the making of a Hearthstone card, a couple of neat Horizon: Zero Dawn video pieces, and behind the scenes on seminal 2D fighting game Samurai Shodown.
April 17, 2017
Improvisational Game Design
Improvisational Game Design
The article describes an example of total improvisation during the development of The Franz Kafka Videogame.
April 17, 2017
Nintendo Offers $20K to Hack the Switch
Nintendo Offers $20K to Hack the Switch
Ostensibly, the idea is to prevent piracy. But the focus on security is also a bit of a blow to the “homebrew” community.
April 14, 2017
Chat with the ex-BioShock developers behind Perception at 3PM EDT
Chat with the ex-BioShock developers behind Perception at 3PM EDT
If you appreciated our previous chat with BioShock level designer Bill Gardner, you should join him and Amanda Gardner at 3PM EDT to talk about their new horror game Perception.
April 14, 2017
How emergent AI encounters can be beautiful in The Signal from Tolva
How emergent AI encounters can be beautiful in The Signal from Tolva
If you're wondering how to achieve interesting emergent encounters in an indie game, you should see how The Signal From Tolva utilizes its AI.
April 14, 2017
How Perception translates blindness into game mechanics
How Perception translates blindness into game mechanics
If you've wondered how accessibility education can help your game design, you should see how Bill and Amanda Gardner created the blind heroine of Perception.
April 14, 2017
Double Fine founder Tim Schafer has some advice for indie devs
Double Fine founder Tim Schafer has some advice for indie devs
In an interview with Glixel, Tim Schafer talks about setting your own milestones, the allure of difficult games and why he warns every indie dev he meets that "shipping games sucks."
April 14, 2017
Nintendo sold over 906k Switch consoles in the U.S. last month
Nintendo sold over 906k Switch consoles in the U.S. last month
Sales numbers released by Nintendo show that the console fell short of 1 million sales during its first month but the Switch still emerges as Nintendo's fastest selling console to date.
April 14, 2017
Peter Moore says goodbye to the game industry with a farewell video
Peter Moore says goodbye to the game industry with a farewell video
It seems like today was Peter Moore's last day as an EA exec before he leaves the game industry to lead the Liverpool Football Club. To say goodbye, he wrote a fond farewell and made a memory mixtape.
April 14, 2017
PopCap cofounder's VR startup, Pluto VR, nets $13.9M in funding
PopCap cofounder's VR startup, Pluto VR, nets $13.9M in funding
Pluto VR, the VR startup that PopCap Games cofounder John Vechey helped launch in Seattle in 2015 after leaving Electronic Arts, has managed to raise $13.9 million as it works on a VR chat app.
April 14, 2017