3D game character animation library Mixamo is making an official release this week of its improved Mixamo 2.0 storefront as it disables the old version, which was reliant on Unity's Web Player plugin. ...

Frank advice from the Half-Life modder: "If I saw these 10 years ago I probably would have thought 'Yeah, seems like good advice' and then promptly forgotten everything listed." ...

"You see, this isn't just a question of video game difficulty levels... It's a question of motivation -- both from a developer and gamer standpoint. It's about what motivates us to play games." ...

A chaotic multiplayer Ludum Dare entry made over Skype? This in-depth postmortem peels apart the layers of Alex Rose's Rude Baer Raid and offers design and dev tips. ...

"It is with a heavy heart that I hang up the old pencil tool for all of our future games. Good art is good art, and nothing beats the real deal. Embracing the medium simply ensures that everybody else knows it." ...

Yooka-Laylee is a Kickstarter smash, coming as it does from a team of Rare veterans. With that in mind, Gamasutra asked for platformer development wisdom from the team. ...

"The Greenlight process is much different than it was even a year ago. The floodgates are opening, and now mostly anybody can get Greenlit." ...

James and Michael Brown from Gang Beasts developer Boneloaf showcase their cheeky multiplayer brawler which features hilarious ragdoll-style physics. ...

In an extract for the book Videogames for Humans, a player has a conversation with the Twine game Rat Chaos, by game creator Winter Lake. ...

A massive survey of 2D game cameras, covering "challenges, approaches and ... the evolution of their solutions" from the 1980s through the present day. ...