Indie game company Arcen (AI War) expects to lay off nearly all of its staff by Monday for financial reasons, according to a lengthy blog post published today by company founder Chris Park.  ...

"I feel like the game's graphics have improved significantly with very little effort. Performance was affected, but not enough to make me want to tear any effects back out." ...

Who's still making PSP games? Is the 360 still viable? What's up with Linux? These stats didn't make it into the GDC 2016 State of the Industry report but they're fun to think about, so here they are. ...

The University of California's games program, USC Games, is going to try its hand at being a publisher, starting with games made by its own students. ...

'It would be easy to make myself look cool in a game about myself, but that's not my goal,' says Nina Freeman. 'I want to be honest, which doesn't always make me look cool in the game story.' ...

"The problem every game developer has faced, though, is that when you reach 95% of the project, you get the feeling that it's almost done, the pressure goes down, and yet you still have about 50% of the work remaining." ...

"Sure, the game only generated a fraction of what we spent on it, but we've learned a lot. Now it's time to get up, dust off our shoulders and get the creative juice flowing again!" ...

"Don't half-ass your game audio. Think of the games that influenced you and how they were such epic experiences on account of the great music they had. Don't you want the same for your game?" ...

'The core design of the FPS was largely unchanged since the original Doom. It's nice to see that players want more innovation in the genre than auto-regenerating health instead of med-kits.' ...

"This concept, namely to question what is and isn't real in a medium, is intrinsic to the essence of video games. Without a doubt, video games have the potential to effectively break the line between reality and illusion." ...