The power of crowd funding
The ins and outs of asking fans to foot development bills up front.
Features
Defining the modern indie game
Robin Hunicke, Jakub Dvorsky, Dino Patti and Brian Provinciano discuss the nature of indie games.
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Opinion: Welcome to Amalur
From cellophane to opening cutscene, it's as if Kingdoms Of Amalur: Reckoning doesn't seem to care about you playing it.
7The Friday Game: Dragon Quest
Chris Donlan picks over a dungeon-crawl that channels some unlikely influences.
Devs celebrate Double Fine's Kickstarter success
Leading developers on what Double Fine Adventure means for the game industry's future.
Solitaire Blitz preview
We play PopCap's new dopamine-fuelled one-minute score challenge.
At the conference unlike any other
London's indie devs gather for Bit Of Alright, a chaotic celebration of the local scene.
The Friday Game: Fail-Deadly
Chris Donlan plays an inspiringly fresh tactical game in which nuclear war meets Tetris.
Tim Schafer on Happy Action Theatre
The Double Fine founder tells us why working with young children and hot lava results in fertile creative ground.
1How to protect your game against cloning
Why US copyright law can give you a chance to take cloners to court.
Examining Zynga's tower defence
We examine Zynga CEO Mark Pincus' claims that Tiny Tower just builds on the foundations of its forebears.
Dark Souls' grand vision
We talk art, design and masochism with the game’s creative director, Hidetaka Miyazaki.
250 Must-Play iOS Games
Three years and hundreds of thousands of apps later, which are the games that deserve your attention?
4The Friday Game: RUN
Grobitbox’s survival horror game explores the dark pleasures of the chase.
Things: Idle animations
We examine the deceptively complex process of just standing around.
How Zynga cloned its way to success
We chart Zynga's track record of copying the works of others.
3The Vita games to watch
Hands-on with the games to look out for when Sony's handheld launches in Europe.
4PS Vita prepares for Euro lift-off
Sony's European president Jim Ryan on the plans for launching its new handheld.
1Buried alive: the fate of Xbox Live Indie Games
Tricky to find, awash with dross, and unreliable for revenue – whatever happened to Xbox 360's 'YouTube for videogames'?
2The Friday Game: Midas
Why does everything that Wanderlands touches turn to gold?
Julian Gollop on XCOM
The man who created X-COM on what he thinks of Firaxis' XCOM: Enemy Unknown remake and the future of turn-based strategy.
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