Ubisoft’s Xavier Poix spells out lessons from Wii U launch games (interview)
The head of Ubisoft France gave a talk on leveraging new technology for games.
You forgot Luigi’s birthday (again), but this one’s a 30-year milestone
Luigi's turning 30, and to commemorate the occasion, we've collected his best moments and design changes from over the years.
David Ko puts up the ‘guard rails’ at Zynga to keep costs under control (interview)
The No. 2 exec at Zynga is trying to contain costs as the company shifts its weight into mobile gaming.
MMOs “don’t have to be serious to be epic,” says WildStar writer
Is WildStar's Pixar influence enough to differentiate it from the hundreds of other MMOs on the market?
Jon Shafer’s At the Gates: New strategy studio Conifer Games is starting small but has huge ambitions
A new studio in Detroit is going to Kickstarter to fund a strategy game about the Fall of Rome -- one that's about destroying an empire, not building one.
Can live speedruns compete with e-sports? (interview)
Speedruns often take hundreds of hours to perfect, across countless playthroughs. Now you can watch as insanely committed players attempt world records live.
Veteran designer returns to online games with Camelot Unchained (interview)
After being away from the massively multiplayer online space for four years, Mythic Entertainment co-founder Mark Jacobs announces his return with a new realm-versus-realm MMO.
How Crytek hired the ex-Vigil team (and formed a new studio) based on one meeting
The Darksiders Vigil team is gone. Here's how they became Crytek USA over the course of a weekend.
Ubisoft creative director discusses hooking fans again with Splinter Cell: Blacklist (video)
Maxime Béland describes how the new Sam Fisher isn't like the old Cold War operative.
Evoland shows how action-adventure games have matured, without the boring history lesson
Shiro Games CEO Sebastien Vidal explains the challenge -- and quirkiness -- of fitting a whole genre's evolution in a single game.