Hades wins the Nebula Award for Best Game Writing

Supergiant's roguelike action dungeon crawler Hades has been honored with the 2020 Nebula Award for Best Game Writing. ...



Facebook Gaming acquires Crayta developer Unit 2 Games

Facebook Gaming has acquired Unit 2 Games, the UK developer behind collaborative game development and publishing platform Crayta, for an undisclosed fee. ...



How IGF finalist Arrog explores death, mourning, and acceptance

Arrog, which was nominated for Excellence in Visual Art, follows a man through his dreams as he accepts his own death. It's an exploration of finding acceptance in death, aiming to reshape our look at death and mourning. ...



Take a look back at the making of Star Wars Galaxies at GDC 2021

Raph Koster and Richard Vogel are presenting a postmortem of Star Wars Galaxies at the all-digital GDC 2021. ...



Get a job: Join Rare and Xbox Game Studios as a Rendering Engineer

You'll be working as part of the Rendering team, liaising closely with the Art and Design teams to help them achieve the artistic vision for our games. ...



Activision seemingly sets up new in-house studio for triple-A mobile games

The Call of Duty Mobile-maker has seemingly set up a new internal studio to focus solely on the growing platform, and specifically create "the best AAA mobile games in the world." ...



Finnish studio Quicksave Interactive nets $1.3 million to create HTML-5 chat games

Helsinki-based game studio Quicksave Interactive has raised $1.3 million to create HTML-5 social games that can be played on messaging platforms. ...



Blog: The two sides of Doom Eternal

I recently went through the entirety of Doom Eternal and I wanted to share my thoughts on specifically how the two DLCs offer two sides of the same experience. ...



Report: Balan Wonderworld game director Yuji Naka departs Square Enix

UPDATE: Sonic the Hedgehog co-creator and Balan Wonderworld game director Yuji Naka has seemingly left Square Enix. ...



Tencent opens new L.A. office to consolidate workforce and enable further expansion

Chinese tech and game company Tencent has opened a new office in Los Angeles that could house up to 300 employees. ...



Video game charts: a series of lenses

Sure, you're looking at the top games on the Steam charts, but are those really the 'top games'? This and lots more discoverability takes in this latest round-up. ...



Get a job: Join Treyarch as a Senior Gameplay Engineer

A successful Senior Gameplay Engineer will have an †œeye† for gameplay and a knack for understanding how to deliver exciting features that millions of fans are going to love. ...



Steam now lets devs join forces and create their own bundles

DIY Collaborative Bundles are a new way for devs to team up and sell their games as part of a package deal without needed to work directly with Steam's staff to do so. ...



Don't Miss: Water interaction model for boats in video games

Avalanche Studios senior software engineer Jacques Kerner (Just Cause 3) walks us through coding "a simplified model that captures the important features of a boat" in this meaty programming article. ...



Knockout City hits 5 million players during ten-day free trial

EA and Velan Studios' extreme dodgeball brawler Knockout City has attracted the attention of at least 5 million players during a free event spanning the first ten days of its launch ...