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. ...
Activision Blizzard QA employees speak out about poor working conditions
A number of Activision Blizzard employees have spoken out publicly about poor working conditions for quality assurance testers at the company. ...
Roblox Copration buys up Jim Greer's Bash Video team
Update: Roblox has bought up Bash Video, Jim Greer's post-Kongregate startup, and hired him as a new director of engineering at the company. ...
Registration is now open for GDC Masterclass Fall 2021 courses
Check out all the great classes available in the GDC Masterclass Fall section. ...
Spec Ops: The Line creative director opens studio with Nine Inch Nails guitarist
Spec Ops: The Line creative director and designer Cory Davis has opened a new game studio called Eyes Out with Nine Inch Nails guitarist Robin Finck. ...
Blog: The impact of the economy on RTS multiplayer level design
An analysis of the relationship between an economy and the placement of resource spots in multiplayer level design. ...
Keywords buys Romanian art creation studio AMC for $3.3 million
Game service provider Keywords has acquired Romanian art creation studio AMC for €2.8 million. ...
Designing Highfleet, a strategy game with heavy machinery and twirling knobs
Konstantin Koshutin, creator of Highfleet discusses some of the design decisions that went into this new take on the simulation strategy genre. ...
Angry Birds dev Rovio to acquire hyper-casual developer Ruby Games
Angry Birds creator Rovio has acquired Turkish hyper-casual studio Ruby Games in a multi-million dollar deal. ...
Blog: The importance of player freedom and prototyping exploration mechanics
Exploring design considerations in creating a video game to evoke meaningfulness through the lens of various disciplinary perspectives such as philosophy, psychology and spirituality. ...
Glu Mobile CEO and COO depart the company months after EA acquisition
Glu Mobile leaders Nick Earl and Eric Ludwig are stepping down just months after the mobile company was acquired by EA for $2.1 billion. ...
Twitch pledges to do more to protect marginalized streamers from harassment
Twitch has pledged to do more to help protect marginalized content creators from harassment. ...
Industry vets respond to pushback after announcing mostly-white, male studio
Industry vets Alex Hutchinson and Reid Schneider, co-founders of the new studio Raccoon Logic, respond after a photo of the mostly-white, mostly-male team at their studio received pushback on Twitter. ...
