"MS led the pack with bringing indies onto consoles in a big way with XBLIG. We're just hoping that it can continue into the current generation a bit larger that it is so far." ...

Skulls of the Shogun programming wizard Borut Pfeifer and veteran community manager Matt Fairchild join the speaker lineup at GDC Next 2014 featuring ADC this November. ...

The challenges and opportunities of trying to develop a game that uses eye-tracking tech as one of its control mechanics -- how to design for that, and how players interact with it. ...

"I ran a 30 day Kickstarter for my cyberpunk 2D shooter Contract Work; it finished just over it's goal of $5000 with 110 backers." ...

Interaction with a high-speed, 2D world -- how do you achieve it, and make it feel right? This Velocity 2X developers share their secrets. ...

This weekend, the White House invited game developers -- from independents to well-known studios -- to come, make, and present educational games. ...

Streamers sell games, and Twitch knows this -- as CEO Emmet Shear's comments today clearly indicate. But don't expect the site to change to an Amazon-powered e-commerce platform. ...

Speaking at GDC Europe 2014, Paradox CEO Fredrik Wester explained the business advantages of originality, how to find and express your vision, why passion is unclonable, and the power of community. ...

"If you team up with another person, you get 50% of the pie, but it's a much tastier pie. Even though you have to give up profits, the difference that makes to the quality of the game offsets the money you would lose." ...

"It's been suggested to me several times that I should do something to encrypt playerdata.xml, which contains all of the player's unlocks, high scores, and stats. I don't agree, though." ...