The ins and outs of asking fans to foot development bills up front.
Four leading developers share their views on avant-garde game design.
The visceral horror shooter returns with a greater focus on action.
Find your future translating Japanese for Nintendo, designing games for core x group, or supporting the UK's nuclear deterrent.
Our February issue, featuring The Last Of Us, is out now.
Tim Schafer's studio has raised $400,000 to fund development of a game most publishers would have dismissed out of hand. Where do we go from here, asks Nathan Brown.
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Clint Hocking explains why we should stop judging game dialogue by the standards of film.
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It's a real problem that gamers don't understand how much work goes into making a quality game, plus Blizzard's political correctness gone soft.
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NanaOn-Sha's Kinect ghost story is reliable but unremarkable.
True Crime: Hong Kong renamed, with publisher's London studio assisting United Front Games with development.
Four leading developers share their views on avant-garde game design.
The visceral horror shooter returns with a greater focus on action.
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Spry Fox’s inspirational match-three puzzler loses little in the transition to smartphones.
An attempt to streamline the RPG leaves too little meat on its user-friendly bones.
We play PopCap's new dopamine-fuelled one-minute score challenge.
The goldfish is back, but the voxels are gone.
Find your future translating Japanese for Nintendo, designing games for core x group, or supporting the UK's nuclear deterrent.
Jas Purewal considers the question for the modern age: if you buy a virtual hat, who owns it?
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London's indie devs gather for Bit Of Alright, a chaotic celebration of the local scene.
GM Ben Cousins says recent spate of clones is "a blip" that will be eradicated as production values increase.
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Are overbearing tutorials and handholding destroying the magic? Plus playing fever dreams and shooting Skyrim.
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Brian Howe imagines what Infocom’s classic text-based adventure Zork might be like had it been released today.
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Chris Donlan plays an inspiringly fresh tactical game in which nuclear war meets Tetris.
Outcry over Where's My Water's 69p level bundle and Half-Life 3 highlight the problems of players loving games a little too much, says Alex Wiltshire.
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The Double Fine founder tells us why working with young children and hot lava results in fertile creative ground.
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