The RetroBeat: The best retro speedruns from Summer Games Done Quick 2019
Summer Games Done Quick managed to break an event record last week, raising over $3 million for Doctors Without Borders. The show featured speedruns...
The DeanBeat: How Jordan Mechner shepherded Prince of Persia across 30 years
Time means nothing when you’ve created something special. Jordan Mechner launched Prince of Persia in 1989, when he was 25. And 30 years later,...
David Cage and Josef Fares on the future of game storytelling
Joseph Fares and David Cage are game directors who love storytelling. They have created memorable games that players rave about. But they share little...
Sarah Elmaleh: The game industry can become emotionally aware and collaborative
When voice actress Sarah Elmaleh helped Rami Ismail create the GameDev.World online-only game development conference — translated into eight languages in real-time — it...
Can Roblox’s 90 million users be civil to each other?
Back in January, online safety expert Laura Higgins joined Roblox to head a “digital civility” initiative to make the virtual world and gaming platform a...
Why Snapchat is making mobile games like Bitmoji Tennis
Over the past eight years, Snap has made one of the world’s most popular social chat clients with Snapchat. And lately, the company has...
Cory Barlog: The struggle of making God of War
Cory Barlog has been on a year-long victory tour since the release of God of War, the acclaimed title that has had tremendous success...
Mike Morhaime: The highlights and lessons of nearly three decades at Blizzard
Mike Morhaime was recognized at the Gamelab event in Barcelona with the Honor Award, as his wife and four-year-old daughter looked on from the...
David Cage interview: Researching Detroit: Become Human’s back story of rogue AI
Detroit: Become Human depicts a fictional near-future story about a world where humans are served by lifelike androids. It showed us a future where...
Josef Fares: How to build story into gameplay in video games
Joseph Fares, founder of the Hazelight game studio in Sweden, believes that video games are a unique medium where you can take advantage of...