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What's the value of becoming the literal face of a character?

We spoke to Ubisoft's localization and cultural consultant on Mirage, to discuss their process for cultural accuracy in the game.

Australia's game industry is building momentum, but not without stumbles.

"We were trying to cram a full detective game inside a survival horror game, and it didn't work."

"I think immersive sims started to believe their own marketing material. That never fosters creativity."

Learn what insidious instruments are at the heart of Alan Wake 2's score.

Grasshopper Manufacture CEO and game designer Goichi "Suda51" Suda dishes on 25 years of toilet humor, ultraviolence, and his love for Takashi Miike.

Square Enix Technical artist Tatsuya Okahisa and producer/director Naoki Yoshida share insights on the process of the visuals of the long-running MMORPG.

The Left 4 Dead co-lead looks back on "paying for the debt" of the game's broken engine—and how that led to a rapidly-developed sequel.

Chief creative officer Allard Laban looks back on the studio's long, arduous journey to success, and teases what new ideas it may have for the future.

"If you want to play as a bearded non-binary dwarf with a masculine voice and green hair, why not?"

Indian video game development seems to be displaying more and more potential and exposure; we spoke to three different developers based in India about their current projects and their own experiences.

Here are some best practices for mentoring others in your field and how to find those key relationships to advance your own career.

"We're getting kind of tired of the same perspective in games."

"We had to figure out how we could make those assets work for us while not tanking everything."