A decade's worth of information on how long developers really work -- culled from surveys given to game developers and interviews with them, as crunched by two academics who know the subject well. ...

"The progress of my research in interactive Global Illumination (GI) for two-dimensional (2D) games will be discussed, and one particular method will be explained namely, Signed Distance Fields (SDF)." ...

"Cortana gives us the best personal assistant money can buy, but the system also offers a very extensive speech system that is available to us humble developers. Using the power of Cortana, we can bring the full power of speech to our games." ...

Gamestop announces new publishing initiative GameTrust, we speak to VP Mark Stanley about what this initiative means for developers and game distribution as a whole. ...

This week Ark: Survival Evolved developer Studio Wildcard agreed to settle a contentious lawsuit with Trendy Entertainment owner Insight Ventures for an undisclosed sum. ...

At GDC 2016, Psyonix design director Corey Davis stepped up to the stage to share examples of how the Rocket League team avoided screwing up what evolved into a simple, but deep, experience. ...

"We come to perhaps the most common use of leitmotif -- the representation of characters. Nearly every major character in the game has an associated leitmotif, often spanning multiple tracks in the soundtrack." ...

"I've opened my own game studio and we've begun work on our first game, Stardust Command. Until recently doing this in China would be almost impossible." ...

Games are often about traversal, metaphorically or literally. Many mechanics are, at their core, about closing the gap between self and other, between the familiar and the unfamiliar, and critical writing on games often walks the same ground. ...

Meet the team behind the 3.6.0 update of the venerable NetHack--the first update since 2003. Some are former fans. Others have been involved with the game since it first debuted in the summer of 1987. ...