We ask developers the best ways to trick their players on this, the day of April Fool's. ...

Speaking at GDC 2014, Klei's Kevin Forbes shares lessons learned from developing a polarizing game -- and how you can apply those lessons to find and foster the audience that will love your game. ...

"I am going to 'unpick' the extraordinary music of Jessica Curry: Christian music for video games by an atheist composer. My study will focus on her entire soundtrack output." ...

"Of all the awesome features in Unity, I find the ability to script the editor and make it do what you want using almost the same tools and API that the original developers used to make it one of the best features available to developers." ...

"When a game supports controllers, the player is likely using an analog stick at all times. Nailing the input processing can have a substantial impact on quality throughout the experience." ...

"What if we removed experience and years of study from the equation? How much would that level the play field? What if every chess game was different and you had to learn it on the fly?" ...

"Getting realistic ropes working required tackling several different problems. It was mostly traveling development paths that others have already blazed and then making whatever adjustments were needed for my specific needs." ...

After cancelling a small Wii U project following the firing of Alison Rapp by Nintendo, developer Brandon Sheffield discusses why, and the subsequent fallout. ...

The latest release has some not-so-insignificant improvements, of a number of different stripes -- whether your concern is international audiences or cutting-edge graphics, sound, or more. ...

Just a quick reminder that the call for submissions to present lectures and panel sessions at the Game Developers Conference Europe in August ends tomorrow: Friday, April 1st, at 11:59 PM Pacific. ...