"'What is this entity thinking?' I was always fascinated with this question, and I loved how some triple-A game AIs were able to avoid obstacles... So I began to learn everything about complex AI." ...

This week, our partnership with game criticism site Critical Distance brings us picks from Kris Ligman on topics ranging from the success of Kim Kardashian: Hollywood to how we talk about HipHopGamer. ...

"I was most excited about creating my own game engine because I wanted to know everything that was going on under the hood." ...

Here's what we know: The ethics of paying for YouTuber and press coverage of your game are rather blurred, and become more and more so as revenue share programs and FTC rules come into play. ...

Games inspire us to make games, but so do the people behind them. Here are inspirational developers, as selected by our Twitter followers. ...

UK-based independent studio (Art Academy, Zumba series) is booting up a £300,000 ($509,415) fund to back a "portfolio of studios" and help them find success. ...

"I always found it easy to come up with new game ideas... So here are some thoughts on how I try to figure out if prototyping a game idea or even nurturing it into a full-grown game is worth my time." ...

As part of Gamasutra's 2014 Game Developer Salary Survey, we asked respondents an open question: "Do you have anything to say about the game industry in 2013?" ...

"In a regular game with graphics I would only have the troll hit the horse with a club or something... But in a text game, I have to describe the action to create a vision in the mind of the player." ...

Variable State tells us about Virginia, its in-development narrative game inspired by 1990s TV like Twin Peaks -- character studies, magical realism and what hides beneath the suburban mundane. ...