Blog: Some game economy design essentials
Today we're looking at best practices for creating a framework for crafting a game economy that keeps your audience persistently enthralled and coming back for more. ...
Altor investment fund grabs majority stake in Swedish publisher Raw Fury
Global investment fund Altor has purchased a majority stake in Swedish publisher Raw Rury for an undisclosed fee. ...
Blog: How social interaction influences players in MMORPGs
Games have strong interaction with all the users. How to retain players is a problem we want to explore more. ...
VR dev XR Games nets $2.1 million to expand team and create new franchises
UK-based augmented and virtual reality game studio XR Games has secured $2.1 million in funding to expand its development team. ...
Embodying comfort and coziness in Here Comes Niko!, a '3D platformer for tired people'
"We noticed that we regularly were too exhausted to play the kind of games we used to like. So, we started working on a game that we could play even when we didn't have energy for anything else." ...
Don't Miss: The real buildings that inspired Control's Oldest House
If you love Control, you'll love this look at the Brutalist architecture that inspired The Oldest House. ...
Blog: Historians discuss Old World
Historians Bob Whitaker and John Harney play Old World. Topics include the game's perspective on the ancient world, Old World's layers of decisions, and comparisons to Sid Meier's Civilization and Paradox games. ...
Get a job: Sony PlayStation is hiring a Live Ops Analytics Director
Sony PlayStation is hiring a Live Ops Analytics director to manage the data that drives games like God of War, Horizon Zero Dawn, and more! ...
Over 10 million players have checked out Control
Remedy announced today during its quarterly financial report that over 10 million players have played Control. ...
From Mafia to Among Us - can social deduction evolve as online multiplayer?
As a veteran Mafia player and as an aspiring game designer launching my first game on Kickstarter, I will share my two cents on the emergence of online multiplayer social deduction games. ...
Blog: 7 Unity tips for a beginner 3D artist
Here are seven tips for Unity (plus a bonus one) that I have found very helpful when working on our VR project. Hopefully, these tips will make life a bit easier for you if you are just starting out. ...
Seattle-based Starform raises $5 million to scale up ahead of game reveal
Starform has raised an additional $5 million to fund the development and marketing of its upcoming release, and scale up the team for future projects. ...
Don't Miss: Making Frostpunk grim without descending to dark comedy
Learn about how Frostpunk managed to tell a grim story without descending into despair or dark comedy. ...
Amazon Games loosens rules on personal projects
Amazon Games has loosened its rules on personal game projects, a few weeks after the overly restrictive rules were roundly mocked on Twitter. ...
Get a job: tinyBuild is hiring a Senior Video Games Producer
tinyBuild is looking for an excellent communicator and a multitasking person with strong problem-solving skills a passionate for video games to fill the role of a Senior Producer. ...
