In 2018, women came forward about misconduct at Rocksteady - and were ignored
A story in The Guardian cites a letter dated November 2018 that was detailed publicly for the first time today and addressed to leaders at London-based Batman: Arkham Knight developer Rocksteady. ...
Oculus plans to replace Oculus Accounts with Facebook Accounts
Facebook-owned Oculus is starting to pivot away from the sole use of Oculus accounts on its VR devices, and will eventually end support for Oculus Accounts all together. ...
Electronic Arts' EA Play subscription service arrives on Steam this month
Electronic Arts has been slowly inching toward a Steam launch of its freshly renamed subscription library EA Play, and has now finally announced when that launch will take place. ...
Video: Yooka-Laylee and the Impossible Lair speedrun with dev Chris Sutherland
In this GDC Summer session Davesterio speedruns Playtonic's Yooka-Laylee and the Impossible Lair, with dev Chris Sutherland pointing out a slew of intriguing details about the game's design. ...
Don't Miss: 6 ways to make your game more appealing to speedrunners
Take a look at these tips from the Spelunky, Shovel Knight, Crypt of the Necrodancer, and Axiom Verge devs on making speedrunable games. ...
Hitman 2's multiplayer assassination race Ghost Mode is going dark after two years
Hitman 2 ushered in a somewhat experimental take on how multiplayer could fit into a traditionally single-player experience with Ghost Mode, but the mode won't live on. ...
Tencent picks up minority stake in hyper casual game publisher Voodoo
Tencent has picked up a minority stake in Voodoo, the hyper casual game mobile publisher behind games like Helix Jump, Color Road, and many, many more. ...
Blog: The creative dynamics between games and players
A deep analysis of the creative dynamics between games and players, with implications for game design approaches, emergent narrative and more. ...
Tera publisher En Masse is shutting down after over a decade
The Seattle-based company is best known for publishing MMORPG, Tera, but also worked on other titles like The Dark Crystal: Age of Resistance and Closers. ...
Take-Two Interactive acquires mobile studio Playdots for $192 million
Founded in 2013, Playdots is the developer behind Dots, Two Dots, and Dots & Co., which have amassed over 100 million downloads combined. ...
Blog: Simple performance capture for indie developers
An independent developer New Game Order discuss what was achieved and learned from their experiments in motion capture for third-person sci-fi adventure The Uncertain: Light at the End. ...
Postmortem: A look back at the 5-year development of Eastshade
A look back at the 5-year development of Eastshade, the open-world adventure where you play as a traveling painter. ...
Don't Miss: Secret of Mana's enduring influence
In this classic back-and-forth, game dev Douglas Wilson and Gamasutra's Christian Nutt reflect on Secret of Mana. What made the game so enduring? And what inspirations does it offer modern developers? ...
Get a job: Join Disbelief as a Senior Technical Artist
Senior Technical Artists at Disbelief act as a bridge between the technical and artistic aspects of game development, empowering both programming and art to achieve more than either could on their own. ...
Epic asks court to block Apple's 'retaliation' as Fortnite, Unreal Engine face consequences
Epic is asking a California court to protect it from what the company describes as retaliation from Apple over the escalating conflict between the two massive tech companies. ...
