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." ...

The maker of 3ds Max, Maya, Stingray, Scaleform and other popular game-industry tools has announced a 10 percent layoff to its workforce today. ...

"Even if I don't sell my games domestically, I still want to make games that are culturally somehow South African." - Raheel Hassim, a student in South Africa's first-ever game design program ...

'It's very easy to underestimate the time and effort of just running a crowdfunding campaign for the full duration,' says Mike Wilson ...

As part of the Animation Bootcamp at GDC 2013, experienced animator Amy Drobeck walks you through her process for breathing life into creatures and animals -- from the skeleton up. ...

Today is the last day to register early for GDC 2016 at a discounted rate, and those who do may appreciate the conference's cutting-edge Game Design Workshop. ...