"There is an immense amount of top quality talent out there and we would love to help some of those see the light of day by offering our support and services as a publisher." ...

"At a first glance, Downwell is too simplistic in its appearance and mechanics: you just jump, shoot while in the air and can glide/walk left or right. But the game is not as simple as it seems." ...

"Your Kickstarter page is an advertisement for your goods. As such, using someone else's trademark could be an infringement unless it meets certain exemptions." ...

Thatgamecompany's John Nesky speaks passionately at GDC 2014 about the importance of good camera design in games, and what he learned about how to make a great camera in his time working on Journey. ...

"If there's one takeaway from this piece, it's that every decision we made was massively influenced by playtesting. I can't stress enough how important this was for ending up with clear, understandable game systems." ...

"Although this is not the best solution for greyboxing, it is the easiest way of doing it without using any third party plugins." ...

"This week's tip is pretty simple, and fairly esoteric. It's not something you'll need to use every day, but it is pretty cool, and who knows, maybe one day you'll suddenly find you need it. Today we're going to make a C# delegate out of thin air." ...

As part of the GDC 2013 Microtalks sessions, Plants vs. Zombies creator George Fan hopped up on stage to quickly run down four questions he'd created to help clarify the themes of his games. ...

This week, our partnership with game criticism site Critical Distance brings us picks on topics ranging from initial critical reception to Fallout 4 to grant opportunities for Unreal developers. ...

Microsoft Studios researcher Sean Baron takes a look into the often discussed but rarely defined concept of 'Flow' in this classic 2012 feature, with suggestions for helping players get into the zone. ...