"Here's some handy tips on how to ignore those pesky playtesters that aren't worth your time... especially when their feedback isn't the kind you want to hear!" ...

Arrowhead's top-down PlayStation Network co-op game Helldivers is coming to Steam next month, but it's being published by PlayStation Mobile, not Sony Computer Entertainment. ...

In this classic '99 Game Developer feature, the world's top level designers (including developers of Doom, Quake and more) offer advice on what makes or breaks level architecture in 3D game design. ...

One indie dev shares lessons learned in good AI design. "Hopefully this little story will help anyone one looking to do Ai for their own indie game, failing that I hope it at least entertains." ...

GDC 2016 is on the horizon, and today organizers are proud to debut talks from experts about what goes into porting games across platforms (including MS-DOS!) and making them look great everywhere. ...

A level designer from Ubisoft Montreal with credits on multiple Splinter Cell games shares some quick tips for sharpening your level design skills. ...

"I wanted to share some of the lessons I've learnt developing Cathedral for the last 8 months, and hopefully there's some nugget of wisdom in here that might be of use to some fellow game developers." ...

"This week, our partnership with game criticism site Critical Distance brings us picks...on topics ranging from a development history of Fallout 4 to intellectual honesty in character design." ...

An ongoing diary of one producer's mental health: "What people need to realize is that a mental health patient...is in most cases someone trying so hard not to be noticed or perceived as ill." ...

'With traditional level design you can hide things, and use smoke and mirrors to make levels look good. But with procedural generation, you can't fake that.' ...