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Creating the card-based RPG Battle Suit Aces

Battle Chef Brigade developer Trinket Studios is back, this time with a card-based role-playing game called Battle Suit Aces. Card games and giant mechs...

Ben Kvalo’s vision for a sustainable game industry

Why is the game industry suffering in 2025? The answer is—complicated. But everyone agrees that large companies being too brittle to survive a multimillion...

Crystal Dynamics confirms another round of layoffs

Tomb Raider developer and Embracer subsidiary Crystal Dynamics has confirmed its third round of layoffs this year. In a statement shared on LinkedIn, the studio...

Halo Infinite to receive final major content update

Halo Infinite will receive its final major update on November 18, 2025, to allow Halo Studios to refocus on developing new titles.The shooter launched...

Classic Postmortem: The making of Half-Life 2

This article originally appeared in the November 2005 issue of Game Developer. It was published on Gamasutra on November 16, 2015 and has been...

Fright Lessons: Creating a nemesis in The Coma: Cutting Class

A powerful antagonist can load a horror game with dread.When done well, even the hint of their presence can leave a player quivering, whether...

How CD Projekt Red made crafting work with Witcher 3’s dynamic economy

Much has been made of The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt's open-world design, but less attention has been paid to its intriguing crafting system and...

Why a World of Goo dev made a puzzle game about programming humans

There was a weird bit of synchronicity to my life this week when, shortly after publishing an interview with Zach Barth and Matthew Burns about...

Road to the IGF: Inkle’s 80 Days

I dabbled in interactive fiction games for years, but until I downloaded Inkle's 80 Days on a lark (and a friend's recommendation) I'd never found anything that could...

Library of Congress discovers unreleased Duke Nukem game

Library of Congress researcher David Gibson has discovered the source code for the unreleased PlayStation Portable version of Apogee Software's Duke Nukem: Critical Mass...

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