Ubisoft, EA, Activision and Take-Two are rooted in physical retail -- but they've all been working to capitalize on digital game sales. Here's how the big four are managing the digital shift.
Alyce Myatt, director for Media Arts at the National Endowment for the Arts, explains what she looks for in video game applicants, and why only one game received a grant in the last round.
Sony Online Entertainment pulled the veil back on the previously-announced MMO EverQuest Next, and also made a surprise game announcement.
Governmental agencies give grants for research or business innovation -- often for serious game projects which don't aim to entertain but instead to educate. Learn more about getting this money.
Last year's 7-Day FPS (7DFPS) game jam challenged developers to explore innovation in the tired old first-person shooter genre. Now the initiative is back...
Digital Capital's funding model offers project-based funding, with a concentration on digitally-distributed video games. Co-founder Todd Tribell explains.
The National Endowment for the Humanities' Office of Digital Humanities offers funding to developers and scholars of interactive media. Is this funding right for you?
The Xbox Live Arcade charts are out, and July's game lineup was weak, Ryan Langley says. But did Xbox's PlayStation Plus-like free Games for Gold promotion have an effect on sales?
Game code is often written to be highly functional -- and is rarely well documented. Programmer Timo Heinapurola of Bugbear Entertainment (Ridge Racer Unbounded) argues that it's essential.
Namco Bandai is continuing to adopt its recognizable game franchises to today's digital-centric business landscape.
30+ year industry veteran Chris Gray (Boulder Dash, EA) explains why small, independent developers like Imangi (Temple Run) will continue to make the big hits on mobile.
The third part of Anita Sarkessian's Kickstarter-funded Tropes vs. Women in Video Games series explores how modern indie and mobile games have perpetuated the "damsel in distress" trope in video games.
Microsoft said today that it has tweaked the insides of the upcoming Xbox One console since E3, in a bid to optimize the console in the run-up to launch.
Casper Bodewitz knew his engineering background would help him understand game dev from a cost and schedule perspective. He shares his post-project thoughts on budgets and schedule here.
After hearing good things about it, Jennifer Canada installed Tiny Tower and played it -- for 35 hours. It's left her wondering: From a design perspective, was she even playing a game at all?
"I can categorically say that we’re not abandoning core, triple-A console and PC games." - Phil Rogers, CEO of Square Enix's European and American branches, talks openly about the company's future.
Kickstarter's head of community Cindy Au answers our burning questions, while also divulging general tips for those developers looking to get a Kickstarter underway at some point in the future.
In his annual keynote for QuakeCon, John Carmack wrote off high-end graphics, and deemed next-generation consoles Xbox One and PlayStation 4 essentially identical pieces of hardware.
In this reprint from the July 1997 issue of Game Developer magazine, id Software alum Ned Purdom reveals how Quake was first brought to the Total Entertainment Network in the late 1990s.
In an earnings call, Activision Blizzard addressed flagging World of Warcraft subscription numbers, and how the company is looking to prop up its MMO offerings in both the intermediate and long-term.
"We are looking for a Character Artist with the motivation and desire to work on a world class team to build awesome and amazing characters for an upcoming online title."
DeNA's always-outspoken Ben Cousins talks about The Drowning, Scattered Entertainment's attempt to address the evolving mobile space.
In November 2012, industry veteran Jason Della Rocca set out to establish a new kind of games incubator program in Montreal. Gamasutra catches up with Della Rocca to hear how Execution Lab's new teams are doing.
Natural Selection 2 opened up for funding before the scope of the project became apparent. Director Charlie Cleveland shares lessons learned over the years of development.
Veteran producer David Mullich identifies just why games get so far off schedule during development -- and how to prevent your project from getting off track.
An epic post detailing the long and winding journey that JumpCore Productions has taken thus far in...
To err is human & to game is often to err. This blog takes a look at two of the main types of human...
So how do you manage something as complex as a real-time strategy game? Especially if you’re a...
When you are trying to fund a game you are trying to gather money to make money.
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EA strikes out in Ninth Circuit Court Appeal in the Keller right of publicity case. Here's an...
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Game Developer magazine talks to Aditya Vijayakumar of Carnegie Mellon, who is one-fourth of the student design team behind the eye movement-controlled game Aquario.
BioWare veteran Ethan Levy offers his insider knowledge in this series of tips for up-and-coming designers looking to land a job in the games industry.
Despite its potential, Nintendo's Wii U console suffers from disappointing sales and a lack of developer support. Can you save the console with a breakout hit?
