How Rare designed Sea of Thieves' infinite pirate generator
Rare lead character artist Sam Chester talks through the conception, design, and implementation of the "infinite pirate generator" character creator in the studio's swashbuckle-'em-up Sea of Thieves. ...
Get a job: Zing Games needs a Gameplay Programmer
Zing Games is looking for talented and passionate gameplay programmers to join us in creating original titles for both the PC and consoles. ...
The Low-Income Pass Lottery returns for GDC 2021
The Low-Income Pass Lottery has returned for the all-digital 2021 Game Developers Conference. Sign up today! ...
Sniper Ghost Warrior devs apologize after offensive press event
CI Games has apologized after a press event for Sniper Ghost Warrior Contracts 2 allowed attendees to fight cariactures of Middle-Eastern opponents ...
Windows 11 brings Android apps to PC via the Amazon App Store
Mobile developers will soon be able to reach PC audiences with little added effort on their part thanks to a new feature announced for Microsoft's upcoming operating system, Windows 11. ...
Learn more about how networking works at GDC 2021
Learn more about how networking work at the all-digital 2021 Game Developers Conference. ...
Bending genres and breaking rules in Draw Me A Pixel's There Is No Game: Wrong Dimension
"What can you do if you don't control the characters? It's like looking at a painting and instead of giving us brushes, we are asked to play with the frame." says the developer of There Is No Game: Wrong Dimension. ...
Blog: Creating a Discord bug-hunting leaderboard
Encouraging and thanking players for submitting bug reports by setting up a pipeline from in-game bug reporting to a Discord leaderboard bot via a Postgres database. ...
EA's latest purchase Golf Clash earned an estimated $133M in the U.S. over the past year
Player spending on mobile sports games rose by 16 percent in the United States over to past 12 months, with EA's recently purchased mobile title Golf Clash leading the charge. ...
Habbo owner Azerion buys German social game company Whow Games
Gaming and entertainment platform Azerion has acquired German online free-to-play developer and publisher Whow Games for an undisclosed fee. ...
Tencent-owned Timi Studios opens new Seattle studio to create triple-A games
Timi Studios, the Tencent-owned developer that's worked on games like Call of Duty: Mobile and Honor of Kings, has opened a new studio in Seattle to create triple-A titles. ...
Game localization for discovery: it's trickier than you think!
Localization is a really important part of game discovery, since it opens up so many new potential markets for your PC/console games. But what are the best languages to localize to, and why? ...
Don't Miss: Rare's postmortem of the N64 hit GoldenEye 007
It's the Nintendo 64's 25th anniversary. Celebrate with a look back at the making of one of its most popular games. ...
Get a job: SideFX is hiring a Senior Distributed Systems Developer
SideFX is seeking an exceptional software developer with distributed systems experience and a talent for producing high performance, robust software to join its Toronto-based R& D team. ...
You can now run Xbox Cloud games at Series X performance levels
It†™s now possible to play Xbox Cloud games running at the same fidelity as their Xbox Series X equivalents. ...
