Improbable’s SpatialOS lets developers have their heads in the cloud

How a London-based tech company is levelling the games development landscape

• improbable
• cloud gaming

Another Man's Sky: Novaquark's vision for ambitious MMO Dual Universe

Why Jean-Christophe Baillie is making a single shard MMO and what he learnt from No Man's Sky

• dual universe

How PC will let Rez live forever

Enhance Games' Tetsuya Mizuguchi on what the PC version of the classic game means for its future

• rez infinite
• enhance games

Why Mike Bithell surprised us with his latest game Subsurface Circular

The indie hero's latest title has a smaller scope that helped inform its price tag and release plan

• Steam
• mike bithell

"One reviewer called it digital cocaine" – The Making of Age of Empires

The Age of Empire franchise is now a household name that has sold over 20m copies – we chat to the man behind the very first title to see how it came about

• age of empires

Are indie developers charging too little for their games?

Data from SteamSpy suggests that independent studios are selling themselves short

• Steam
• pc pricing

After seven years of growth, Green Man Gaming is going international

CEO and founder Paul Sulyok chats international, Brexit and plans for the future

• retail

How Hinterland sold 1.3m copies of The Long Dark and landed a film deal

After almost three years, The Long Dark launched out of Early Access this August

• early access
• the long dark
• video game films

From gif to game: The making of Dan Marshall's Behold the Kickmen

It started out with a gif/how did it end up like this?

• behold the kickmen
• twitter
• gif

Why Jump thinks it can do 'Netflix for games' right

Streaming service wants to help developers achieve a longer sales tail

• Streaming
• netflix for games

Byron Atkinson-Jones: 'Developers should go triple-A before they go indie'

"The reality is every game you make as an indie is your make or break"

• indie
• xiotex

Why did 500k people pay for Epic’s free-to-play title Fortnite on its first day?

Despite going free-to-play in 2018, half a million people just paid at least $39.99 for Fortnite

• fortnite
• sales data

Is Bossa's Worlds Adrift the next Minecraft?

Best known for physics games like Surgeon Simulator and I Am Bread, Bossa Studio's next title, MMO Worlds Adrift, is its most ambitious project yet

• improbable
• MMO
• SpatialOS
• bossa
• worlds adrift

‘Minecraft is awesome, but I wanted to try something new’ – Daniel Kaplan's move from Mojang to Coffee Stain

After seven years, Mojang's first employee left the company in favour of Swedish games firm Coffee Stain

• Publishing
• daniel kaplan

What went wrong with Introversion's Scanner Sombre?

Introversion saw real success with Early Access title Prison Architect, a title that's shifted well over 2m units. So why did its next title shift only 7,500 units in three months?