As the end of the year approaches, it's once again time for Gamasutra Top 10 Developers of the year--and selecting the final 10 was as tough as ever. ...

Adding a harder difficulty level to this sidescrolling action game wasn't just about tweaking health stats. It was about making players completely rebuild their strategies and playstyles. ...

A Wharton School of Business researcher surveyed over 47,000 Kickstarter backers and concluded that successfully-funded Kickstarters still have a roughly one in ten chance of failing to deliver. ...

VR Samples have been added to Unity 5.3, released today, to help budding virtual reality developers get to grips with the new tech. ...

How speech recognition, voice, narrative, and gameplay converge in the upcoming indie game, Plan Be. ...

This solo developer's game was featured at The Game Awards--but it still made him wonder if working on a game alone for a year was worthwhile. ...

L.A.-based indie studio Tangentlemen is looking to hire someone with Unreal Engine experience and a taste for scary games to work as a senior level designer on the studio's current project. ...

"If the definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting a different result, Hotline Miami 2 believes that sanity is repetition with slight variation until you no longer die." ...

The writers behind Everybody's Gone to the Rapture, Her Story, and Sunless Sea will be going head-to-head at next month's Writers' Guild Awards. ...

This week, our partnership with game criticism site Critical Distance brings us picks from Zolani Stewart on topics ranging from Destiny flavor text to addressing toxicity in development spaces. ...