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NEARstudios hires Portal creator Kim Swift as COO

Newsbrief: Hawthorn developer NEARstudios has announced the hiring of celebrated game industry veteran Kim Swift as its new chief operating officer.Swift is most well-known...

Slot machine roguelite CloverPit tops 1 million sales

Newsbrief: CloverPit, a roguelite inspired by Balatro and Buckshot Roulette, has sold over a million copies.Developer Panik Arcade shared the news yesterday via Steam,...

AAA execs fund marketing network Games Growth Guild

Executives known for their work at companies such as Riot Games, EA, Annapurna Interactive, and many others have founded the Games Growth Guild, presented...

Humble Bundle vets launch new game discovery platform

A group of former Humble Bundle veterans have launched a new digital storefront called Digiphile in a bid to deliver the "next big thing...

The enduring horror of monster encounters in Saturnalia

How do you weaponize fear when developing a horror game without frustrating players? Show your hand too early and they might start calling your...

How Spiritfall brings platform fighters into the world of roguelikes

These days, the roguelike has famously managed to blend itself with other genres such as shooters, sidescrollers, and isometric dungeon crawlers. Rather than fall...

Niantic will keep some pandemic-era protocols in Pokemon Go after all

After outcry from players, Niantic has announced it’s keeping its pandemic-era design shifts for Pokémon Go.It’s still a week until the company announces the...

A taxonomy of Weenies: the landmarks that define Ghost of Tsushima

Sucker Punch’s 2020 game Ghost of Tsushima sported one of the year’s most beautiful open-world environments. Inspired by the real island of Tsushima, the...

Get a job: Demiurge Studios seeks a UI/UX Director

The Gamasutra Job Board is the most diverse, active and established board of its kind for the video game industry!Here is just one of...

Behind the AI and physics of Wobbledogs’ procedurally goofy Wobbledogs

Animal Uprising's Wobbledogs has been in development for some time, and just released on Steam Early Access at the end of January. It’s a...

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