"The word 'gamer' is regressive. It accepts the portrait of us painted by the mainstream news media, and every time I hear it or read it it actually makes me feel a little sick." ...

"If you play your cards right, you can showcase your game almost non-stop even without a booth, get a lot of valuable contacts and make new friends." ...

'Game culture' as we know it is kind of embarrassing -- it's not even culture. It's buying things, spackling over memes and in-jokes repeatedly, and it's getting mad on the internet. ...

How to tutorial: "Like everyone else, I hate tutorials. Eventually over several iterations, I settled on a much more decentralized tutorial system." ...

The devs behind Sega-published Hell Yeah! needed the game to be a big hit if Arkedo was going to keep making games. ...

"'They shout louder because they're losing.' I don't think it's true, because I think the capital C Conservative group of people who play games aren't losing. The more I think about it, the more I believe they lost years ago." ...

"I decline to draw sharp lessons from this, no what-went-right or what-went-wrong. Each new approach has a little of both." ...

These days, some of the most successful games out there aren't even out yet. Developers engaged in notable paid alpha campaigns share their experiences so far in a roundtable Q& A. ...

In this edition, you'll find lots of great advice, tips and data aimed at preparing you for a career in game development. That includes the results of Gamasutra's most recent >industry-wide salary survey, which offers useful learnings to indie and AAA developers alike. ...

A developer discovers the game he's been slaving over -- which he thought was original -- has similarities to other titles. In this post, he confronts his feelings on finding out. ...