How Jagex turned RuneScape into a ‘living game’
Jagex launched its RuneScape massively multiplayer online role-playing game in 2001, and 17 years later, the free-to-play fantasy game is still going strong. The...
Nier: Automata’s Yoko Taro and Takahisa Taura on sentencing characters and turning 2B into a bug
Nier: Automata was one of the most-talked about games of 2017. The action role-playing game sold over 2.5 million copies after its February 2017...
After 40 mobile games, David Reichelt hit gold with Color Switch
David Reichelt has been through a hell of a lot in his life. He was both a music major and a theater major. He...
Inside the making of The Church in the Darkness
If your nephew became an acolyte of a cult in 1970s South America, what would you do to get him out. That’s the story...
Supercell CEO thrives on trusting the instincts of game developers
Supercell CEO Ilkka Paananen has had some spectacular successes in mobile games since starting the Helsinki company in 2010. His team of 240 people...
CEO Victor Kislyi on World of Tanks 1.0: ‘It’s time to revamp Wargaming’
When I met Victor Kislyi at the recent Game Developers Conference in San Francisco, he was happy and tired. The CEO of Wargaming was...
Wolfenstein II postmortem interview: Nazi storytelling is risky and complicated
Wolfenstein II: The New Colossus was one of the great games of the fall season when it debuted last October. Most people have forgotten about...
Batman: The Enemy Within Episode Five review — The Joker gets the last laugh
Since the first episode of Telltale Games’ Batman: The Enemy Within, Bruce Wayne and John Doe’s friendship has been hurtling toward a deadly standoff...
Atari pressed the reset button on its Atari VCS game console
Atari made a lot of noise last year when it announced its Ataribox game console. But in December, just as it was about to...
Why Wooga is focusing on story-based casual games
Berlin’s Wooga rose to prominence in mobile games on the strength of casual games like Diamond Dash and Bubble Island. But the company had...