"I'm fascinated by all the things that lead up to people making up pastimes, toys and time-wasters generally referred to as 'games.' That includes where they live, who they associate with, how they regard themselves and each other." ...

"For the financial strength of the company we need to focus on a few products in the near term that have the ability to get to a retail release before Unsung Story is able to." ...

"We all want to make games played by YouTubers. That's only reasonable, given the role that YouTube has in game publicity in 2016. But what technical and aesthetic choices can we make to get the most out of their play sessions?" ...

Defender's Quest developer Lars Doucet on what Valve's getting right: "The games you see on your front page now depend mostly on you. And that's as it should be." ...

"I manage our in-house content team and cabal of freelancers who create the stories for Sunless Sea, Fallen London, Dragon Age: the Last Court, and our other projects. I'm still finding my feet! But here's five things I've learned so far." ...

The scifi RTS was released eight years ago today. Ironclad's Blair Fraser and Stardock's Brad Wardell wrote this in-depth postmortem on the game's development back in 2008. ...

"I believe that the purpose of AI is to engage the player, not simply to challenge. We have defined good AI as 'difficult to defeat,' when I believe a better definition is 'interesting to deal with.'" ...

Gamasutra talks to Mother 3 fan-translator Clyde 'Tomato' Mandelin about his work translating the Nintendo classic, his day job in translation, and his localization heroes in this '08 interview. ...

"Today I gave my introductory lecture about the game industry to a new group of students at The Los Angeles Film School. There was only one thing they all wanted to know: how much money they were going to make." ...

"A game featuring difficult situations, permanent consequences, and randomized content is seen as something special, something great even." ...