Developer and publisher Outfit7 has launched PlayValley, a new game division focused on developing games for both PC and ...

Abstract: The gaming industry continually faces the challenge of high costs and extensive time requirements for producing 2D assets. Gaming studies hire and pay high costs to artists to create images ...

Even a JRPG's combat system needs to evolve alongside its characters if you want to go from rat hunting to god slaying.

Tutorials might well be the bane of the video game industry's existence. Teaching a player how to do something is surprisingly difficult to do. Even if a developer crafts an educational and ...

Nick is a freelance writer from Chicago, IL, with a BA in Creative Writing from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. His lifelong belief in the artistic power of video games led him to ...