Code Hero: Programming players
The FPS that teaches players how to create their own games.
Design
This week's opportunities on Edge Jobs
Find your future working on DICE's Frostbite engine, a new Sony PS3 game or coding MMOGs for Massive.
The Making Of: Alan Wake
Remedy’s game took five years to emerge from the darkness of development. The studio explains how it finally saw the light.
1Games within games: Hoarding
Tont Coles on the value of cheese, mutilated remains and torture tools in Skyrim, Oblivion and Fallout 3.
Talking Spry Fox
Part two of our interview with the Triple Town dev, including why indies are fundamental to social networks and why consoles are scary.
Opinion: Should tweets be taken so seriously?
As Notch calls for us to stop taking his tweets as fact, is it time the media stopped sourcing news from Twitter?
4Lego Minecraft unveiled
Official Mojang tie-in available for preorder today ahead of summer release.
Triple Town fortunes
Spry Fox CEO David Edery on the pernicious effects of cloning on indies and the launch of Triple Town on smartphones.
RedLynx on Trials Evolution
Three of the development team take us through the trial bike game's powerful new level editor.
The story of Hogrocket: Going free
Hogrocket's Ben Ward on how Tiny Invaders being featured in Apple's iPhone 4S keynote prompted a move to go free.
Hayashi keen on Dead Or Alive crossover
Team Ninja boss fancies Street Fighter X Tekken-style collaboration with Virtua Fighter.
2The future of 3D engines
As more devices become capable of displaying 3D graphics, how are engine makers facing up to the challenge?
Opinion: A tale of two towns
Are all clones really equal? Graham McAllister examines the differences in player experience between Yeti Town and Triple Town.
3Honeyslug on Frobisher Says
Ricky Haggett and Richard Hogg talk Vita, working with Sony, and abusing players.
Opinion: Welcome to Amalur
From cellophane to opening cutscene, it's as if Kingdoms Of Amalur: Reckoning doesn't seem to care about you playing it.
9Devs celebrate Double Fine's Kickstarter success
Leading developers on what Double Fine Adventure means for the game industry's future.
Opinion: Did Double Fine just kill the publisher?
Tim Schafer's studio has raised $400,000 to fund development of a game most publishers would have dismissed out of hand. Where do we go from here, asks Nathan Brown.
5Opinion: Bad lines
Clint Hocking explains why we should stop judging game dialogue by the standards of film.
9Out There: "Lazy" designers
It's a real problem that gamers don't understand how much work goes into making a quality game, plus Blizzard's political correctness gone soft.
1Defining the modern indie game
Robin Hunicke, Jakub Dvorsky, Dino Patti and Brian Provinciano discuss the nature of indie games.
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