The Gauntlet reboot is tailor-made for consoles … but it’s only on PCs
The lack of planned console releases for the Gauntlet reboot is confusing. This is a game made for control pads, not a mouse and keyboard.
Record-breaking GDC drew more than 24,000 game developers to San Francisco
Attendees watched talks on everything from sexism in games to Sony's new VR headset.
Nexon’s Owen Mahoney sees salvation through original hardcore games, not Flappy Bird copycats (interview)
Nexon's Owen Mahoney is driving his company toward more creative free-to-play titles.
Wooga’s Jens Begemann on making the transition from social to mobile games (interview)
The German gamemaker's revenues doubled in the past year. And 70 percent of it now comes from mobile.
Ken Levine leaving behind linear narratives and ‘going back to the drawing board’
After nearly 20 years, the master storyteller is ready to give players choice.
Microsoft’s game studio chief Phil Spencer defends the Xbox One launch strategy
Phil Spencer says that Microsoft is learning and adapting as it fights the console war.
Adam Orth: Internet toxicity’s effect on the game industry is ‘very real and very dangerous’
SAN FRANCISCO — Adam Orth knows that he made a terrible mistake last April when he tweeted that he didn’t understand the controversy about always-online...
GamesBeat weekly roundup: Game Developer’s Conference, Sony plans for virtual reality, and Minecraft makes more mulah
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The DeanBeat: What meme had wings at the Game Developers Conference?
The Game Developers Conference ends today after a full week of lectures, demos, parties, and drunken strolls down the streets of San Francisco. I have attended many GDC events over the years, and I spent a lot of time at this one. I was surprised that so little of the event was about console games.
BioWare developer Manveer Heir challenges colleagues to combat prejudice with video games
Manveer Heir didn't only lay out problems with video game development in his GDC 2014 panel about mysogyny, racism, and homphobia, he laid out concrete solutions to solve them.