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Saving video game history begins right now
At Game Developers Conference 2015, Jason Scott, archivist at the Internet Archive, urged developers to start preserving their history immediately.
March 5, 2015
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Being smart, being stupid with Hitman Go's design
At Game Developers Conference 2015, Daniel Lutz, game director at Square Enix Montreal, explained how designing with constraints in mind helped lead to the success of the stealthy mobile game Hitman Go.
March 5, 2015
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The future of Morpheus, according to Sony's Shuhei Yoshida
Gamasutra sits down with Shuhei Yoshida, Sony's President of Worldwide Studios, to talk about the state of Project Morpheus and what developers should know about making PlayStation VR games.
March 5, 2015
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Warren Robinett reflects on his 'signature' game: Adventure
Game industry veteran Warren Robinett reflects on some of the curious challenges he faced in developing Adventure, his seminal Atari 2600 action adventure game, today at GDC 2015.
March 5, 2015
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How games can shape American culture - and vice versa
Mushroom 11 developer Julia Keren-Detar gave a brief a history of early American board games today at GDC, and showed how the games we make influence (and are influenced by) culture.
March 5, 2015
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Balance balls make better games? Tips from Swery65
The always-spirited Swery65 offered a bevy of surprising and insightful development tips on everything from making better motion controls and creating more empathy to getting along with your team.
March 4, 2015
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Xbox's vision for a cross-platform future
Microsoft plans to create a single, unified platform for game developers with the forthcoming launch of Windows 10, which will have Xbox Live integration to allow for cross-play across devices.
March 4, 2015
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How Creative Assembly Brought Fear To Alien: Isolation
Alien: Isolation creative director Alistair Hope speaks at GDC 2015 about how Creative Assembly focused on building a horror game, not an action game, through deliberate design choices.
March 4, 2015
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Outer Wilds wins top honors at the 17th annual IGF Awards
The celestial exploration game netted Team Outer Wilds the Seumas McNally Grand Prize for Best Independent Game (and it's accompanying $30,000 cash award) at tonight's 17th annual IGF Awards.
March 4, 2015
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Shadow of Mordor takes top prize at Game Developers Choice Awards
Monolith Productions' open-world action game netted the Game of the Year award this evening at the 15th annual GDC Awards, which also honored titles like Monument Valley and people like Brenda Romero.
March 4, 2015
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Unity won't be sold, and is planning for a VR future: John Riccitiello speaks
Unity's CEO holds court with Gamasutra, dismissing the possibility of an acquisition, charting the future of the engine, and talking about what sets the company apart. Oh, and yeah, he talks pricing.
March 4, 2015
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Epic's Sweeney: Unreal Engine is at the epicenter of a graphics-intense future
At GDC this morning, Epic Games founder Tim Sweeney gave a talk that essentially had one main point: As realtime, photorealistic graphics rise in importance, Unreal Engine will be at the forefront of that movement.
March 4, 2015