AAA veterans have launched the Costa Mesa-based indie venture Shield Break Studios, and they're looking for a communicative type to work as a community manager for their debut game Bierzerkers. ...

Just Flight is evidently the "new company" former Mastertronic MD Andy Payne mentioned would be spun out of the firm last week as Mastertronic sold it off to a new buyer amid bankruptcy proceedings. ...

Soon, Gamasutra's editorial staff will begin to publish our picks for the best and most significant games -- but that's only half of the picture. Once again, we're asking you to join in. ...

"The idea behind lockstep multiplayer is simple, if every player shares their input with every other player, the simulation can be run on everyone's machines with identical input to produce identical output." ...

"Being a dev team of one means I need to work quickly and efficiently. I've developed a process for producing my levels that will hopefully be useful to someone else out there." ...

"The dust has settled since launch and I feel like I'm in a position to do a 'round-up' piece on Big Pharma, share some of the things I've learned, which range from marketing theory to specific areas of game design." ...

"I recently had a fellow indie dev on Twitter asking how we made the Armoured Engines loading screen, so I wanted to share the process with all of you!" ...

'A theme I settled on early in the project: kill players in horrible, awful, icky ways, but to make those death sequences as memorable as possible.' ...

Three more unmissable Unity plug-ins, as selected by independent developer Sébastien Dubois -- each with its own function that he finds indispensable. ...

Lucas Pope is trying to capture the legibility and simplicity of great Mac games from the era of monochromatic '1-bit' Mac Plus games with Return of the Obra Dinn ...