When working on large open-world games, the huge number of people required often means there are few devs with intimate knowledge of what the whole game looks like. In a lead-up to his talk at GDC…

Last week, to much popular acclaim, Blizzard announced the development of Diablo IV, the latest sequel in its long-running action RPG franchise.  As more details on the game have emerged during BlizzCon this weekend it's…

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David Brevik helped cofound Blizzard North over twenty years ago, and played a pivotal role in the design and development of the studio’s influential hit Diablo. The game was released at the end of 1996,…

A lot of studios have passion projects they work on between contract work and other projects and every once and a while those projects get to see the light of day. That's the case for…

  [The design director of Volition/THQ's expansive open world action title Red Faction: Guerrilla talks about the transition from being scared of player freedom to truly embracing it, including several case studies of specific missions…

Sony has released its financials for the second quarter ended September 30, 2019, and both sales and operating income are down in the company's video game division.  According to the report, quarterly sales within the…

The end of Rovio’s Q3 sees the company with year-over-year gains in revenue for both its game division and the group as a whole, though operating profit came in below estimates. That decline in adjusted…