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Get a job: Be a Mobile Game Engineer for Sega Networks 3
Sega Networks' Three Rings studio is looking for developers with strong backgrounds in mobile and server-side engineering to work on new mobile and live operations games in San Francisco, CA.
Jan. 23, 2015
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Get community management tips from MMO experts at GDC 2015
At GDC 2015, veteran online game developers Raph Koster, Richard Vogel and Gordon Walton will team up to discuss smart, effective community management practices.
Jan. 23, 2015
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Interactive storytelling a top priority at new studio from Brothers designer
We talk to Hazelight's writer and director Josef Fares about the transition from Starbreeze to forming an independent studio, as well as his thoughts on the state of interactive story telling in 2015.
Jan. 23, 2015
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Video: Building Glitch City, a Voltron-like indie dev collective
At GDC Next 2014, indie developers Asher Vollmer, Teddy Diefenbach, Ben Esposito and other Glitch City members discuss their failures and successes in founding an indie dev collective and workspace.
Jan. 23, 2015
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DayZ hits 3 million sales after 13 months in Early Access
The popular standalone version of DayZ has hit 3 million sales in just over a year -- as the team works to rebuild its engine from the ground up.
Jan. 23, 2015
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'If you had to pick one game for aspiring devs to study, what would it be?'
What game teaches you the lessons you need to know to make games? What game really matters -- and why does it matter? We asked our followers.
Jan. 23, 2015
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Game Design Deep Dive: The Functions of Transistor
Supergiant launched its atmospheric action game Transistor last year. Here, developer Amir Rao explains the inspiration and design of the game's deceptively simple Function ability system.
Jan. 22, 2015
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The emotional tuning of This War of Mine
"Games are not only for fun," says Michal Drozdowski, design director of This War of Mine developer 11 Bit studio. "They're an immersive experience."
Jan. 22, 2015
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Work for hire horror: How keeping calm can lead to success
Lessons in how not burning bridges and putting up with publisher BS can lead to lucrative development contracts -- if you can keep your wits about you and your head above water.
Jan. 22, 2015
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Goodbye video games, hello board games: An interview with Vic Davis
Following Vic Davis' recently announced departure from making digital games, we catch up with him to talk about what lead to the decision, as well as looking back on over seven years of development.
Jan. 22, 2015
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Get a job: Be a Concept Artist at Zenimax's Battlecry Studios
Zenimax Media's Austin-based Battlecry Studios (currently developing, appropriately enough, Battlecry) seeks an experienced server engineer to help coordinate back-end technology development.
Jan. 22, 2015
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Fresh GDC talks span Sunset Overdrive, Pixar and interior design
Insomniac takes us behind the scenes of Sunset Overdrive's character creator, a CounterSpy artist shares lessons learned at Pixar and a Ubisoft artist dives into interior design at GDC 2015.
Jan. 22, 2015