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Phantom inspiration and the ethical auteur with Xalavier Nelson Jr.

On the latest episode of the Game Developer podcast, we had a far-ranging chat with Strange Scaffold creative director Xalavier Nelson Jr. Nelson's outfit...

Leadership lessons from Mark Darrah’s days at BioWare

Why would a former video game executive producer like Mark Darrah start a YouTube channel?If he played to his demons, he could use it...

Roblox will soon use age checks to limit conversations

Wildly popular UGC platform Roblox is in the process of rolling out age-based chat restrictions that will limit communications between minors and adults. Roblox owner...

Becoming One with Nature Takes Time and a Lot of Yoga says Pauline Jacobs

The increase in overall pollution that the planet has seen during the past few years has impacted the planet in such a way that...

How Crossy Road made $1 million from video ads

“The whole project was an experiment,” Crossy Road co-creator Andrew Sum tells me. “We had no idea how the game would perform.”By most measures,...

As the game market floods, are publishers back in style?

Some data from a recent Game Developers Conference State of the Industry survey has got me thinking about trends in self-publishing.The survey, which polled...

MMO vets aim to shake up the genre with a new studio: ArtCraft

This month Gordon Walton and J. Todd Coleman took the wraps off their new studio, ArtCraft Entertainment, which the pair have founded in Austin to...

Making Before: A ‘collective consciousness game’ of survival

Bill Lowe has been making Before for a while. Screenshots of his beautiful prehistoric group-survival sim regularly shone out among those of other games...

Why THQ shut down: A look inside

- An unnamed former THQ staffer Polygon today published an expose on the troubles that lead to the disintegration of publisher THQ -- which...

Another Finnish studio raises millions to make mobile games

Helsinki-based mobile game studio Small Giant Games, which is due to launch its first title next year, has managed to raise $3.1 million in...

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