Doubling Up
Apple opening second China R&D centre in Shenzhen
Strengthening bonds even more
Apple In China
Apple's new hardware-focused R&D centre in China to cost $45 million
Will employ 500 people
New Apple Campus
Apple to set up enormous new campus at Battersea Power Station
Moving most of its London staff there
Making A Mark
How a vibrant community is helping shape the future of 60-second RPG Exiles of Embermark
Tim Harris talks us through the latest in Exiles' development
Spread Thin
Updated: Marmalade to shut down game development platform to focus on making games
Job losses expected
Surprise
How a broken arm in a game jam led to Slovak indie Jan Ilavsky winning an Apple Design Award
The story behind Chameleon Run
Unity Certification
How Unity Certification will give developers a boost over the competition in the job market
Laetitia Santore gives us the lowdown
Say No To Code
Are codeless development tools making the mobile indie development scene stronger?
Opening development to a new generation
Stugan 2016
Stugan 2016 reveals participants, announces Rami Ismail and Peter Vesterbacka as mentors
Big names, interesting games
Polish Games Fund
Polish Games Association teams with Polish government to set up $20 million R&D fund
Promoting innovation in the country
United?
Unity isn't an engine. It's about a providing successful games-as-a-service. So why don't developers get it?
Unity is making F2P easier, but is anyone listening?
Frictionless
How codeless tool Buildbox is helping new developers enter the App Store Top 100 charts
How it got started and plans for the future
Don't Push It
Indie Mavens on why Crunch - including indie self-crunch - is a failure of process
Don't confuse passion with servitude
Everything You Know Is Probably Wrong
The surprising results of A/B testing Benji Bananas' gameplay as Jetpack Joyride vs Tiny Wings
Do you prefer Torulf Jernström or Torulf Jernstrom?
Getting Better
Why you should be prepared to throw away half your game
Torulf Jernström is self-improving
Swedish Scenes At Stugan
Stugan 2016 applications closed, location of summer program announced
7 weeks of making games in the Swedish countryside
A Codeless Future
GameSalad CEO Stephen Nichols on the slow death of coding
Can accessible dev tools kill off coding?
Get Competitive
ESL's David Hiltscher on developing an eSports game
Tips for a competitive edge
Turning The Tables
Vladimir Funtikov on why free-to-play development sucks and what you can do about it
Creative Mobile CEO speaks out
Keep It Lean
Flaregames' Miikka Luotio on the challenges and opportunities of making games with small teams
Bigger may not be better
Train-ing Session
Video: Big Huge Games' Tim Train on what made DomiNations a success
Knowing your competition and working rapidly
Epic Teaching
Epic releases Unreal Match 3, its free mobile development learning tool
Teaching all the basics of mobile games
Bigger Isn't Always Better
Indie Mavens on the opportunities of making lots of small games
Can you be true to yourself while still turning a profit?
Learning Brief
Inside the Game: The role of interns at Pixelberry
Jessica Yang provides the inside track
Horror Heroes
Inside the Game: The role of story in Hollywood U's Halloween update
Eric Dean on the power of a fright story
Limelight
Inside the Game: How partnering with Glee's Lea Michele upped our games
Jennifer Young on celebrity power
Take It To The Limit
Google doubles the size limit of Google Play APKs to 100MB
But use wisely, blog post warns
Optimisation
Inside the Game: Small team, lots of devices to support
Henry Shao on QA challenges
Skywalking
How Kabam found balance in the force as it worked on Star Wars Uprising
Daniel Erickson on a star-sized IP
All In
Inside the Game: How to get a game writing job
Lessons from Luke Georgette
Double Whammy
Inside the Game: How Hollywood U went from greenlight to App Store in 4 months
Royal McGraw on doubling up
Action Stations
Inside the Game: How to deal with a bug that kills your live game
Kara Loo on staying calm and not panicking
Spell It Out
Stugan: How to write for video games
We ask three video game writers about their creative processes
Concentrating
Inside the Game: Growing pains of taking a company of 10 to 40 (in the same office)
Kara Loo is sitting at a small desk
Bottom-up
Nordeus on the importance of optimising for low-end devices
Srdja Stetic-Kozic and Tomislav Rakić share insights
Sitting Pretty
Inside the Game: Adding the Prom Throne to High School Story
Andrew Shvarts on a balancing act
Visual Appeal
Inside the Game: Creating the look of High School Story classmates
The power of the eyes
Open Door
Why Apple was right to ease iOS app development barriers
Carter Dotson applauds new freedoms
It's Alive
Inside the Game: The challenges of supporting a game over two years and 30 updates
Keeping the experience fresh
Unshackling Devs
Nvidia announces AndroidWorks, a tool suite to streamline Android development
Developer-friendly toolset accompanies Nvidia Shield
Monetizing The 99%
Inside the Game: Mobile game advertising 101
How Pixelberry is using ads to drive revenue
Filling Your Funnel
Inside the Game: How we went from riding organics to learning the nitty-gritty of UA and spending $100,000s a month
Max Doty on building successful F2P businesses
Opinions Matter
Inside the Game: How we gave High School Story players a voice and increased engagement
Kara Loo on the power of polls
Development 101
What the west could learn from Indian game developers
Taking a leaf from India's book
Good Enough To Go
How do you know when your game is ready to launch?
Advice, tricks and tips from the Indie Mavens
Letting Go
Inside the Game: How writing a story-driven game in four months forces you to trust your team
Lessons from University U.
Strings For Action
How Mech Mocha found the right connections to launch Puppet Punch
Decisions every step of the way
Stat Attack
Inside the Game: Adding education to High School Story
Jennifer Young on learning through play
Storytelling
Inside the Game: Creating narrative in Pixelberry Games
Kara Loo is quest building
Tasty
From handhelds to mobile and back: the turbulent rise of Pastagames
The Parisian indie embracing risk