Places: Catherine’s Stray Sheep bar
We duck in for one at the watering hole that doubles as a purgatorial stopover on the way to maturity.
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Find your future working for Team17
Or joining Future Publishing's digital team.
Find your future designing a flagship Vita game
As an art director for core x group, or fighting cheaters at DICE.
Mirror's Edge: Building the impossible
Dear Esther environment artist Rob Briscoe remembers the origins, pitfalls and potential in co-creating DICE’s flawed gem.
5The Untouchables: Super Mario Galaxy
Limbo and BioShock's designers pull Nintendo's gravity-defying platformer back to earth.
1Places: The USG Ishimura
We stalk the corridors of a space-bound tomb that rivals the best Hollywood has to offer.
2GDC 2012 Day Two: More natural disasters, level design and trilbies
The second of our daily reports from GDC 12 in San Francisco.
GDC 2012: How Bethesda made Skyrim
A blend of idealism and realism is how under 100 people can build a game as big as Skyrim, according to level designer Joel Burgess.
Things: Save points
Why an immersion-breaking necessity can also be a crucial piece of design.
1The Making Of: Alan Wake
Remedy’s game took five years to emerge from the darkness of development. The studio explains how it finally saw the light.
1University profile: The Guildhall at SMU
Texas's marquee graduate-level game programme is serious business.
1RedLynx on Trials Evolution
Three of the development team take us through the trial bike game's powerful new level editor.
This week's opportunities on Edge Jobs
Find your future translating Japanese for Nintendo, designing games for core x group, or supporting the UK's nuclear deterrent.
Dark Souls' grand vision
We talk art, design and masochism with the game’s creative director, Hidetaka Miyazaki.
2Julian 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.
2Now recruiting on Edge Jobs
Find your future working on a new Codemasters title, building Crytek's powerful tech or crafting the look of Massive's output.
Opinion: Games can't tell stories
Videogames are not a storytelling medium, asserts Tadhg Kelly, no matter what people say.
21Out There: Skyrim's open spaces
The restrictions and beauty of freedom, plus Microsoft's amazing pixel smoothing tech and the art of ugly in character creation.
Places: Aperture Science
Why Valve’s time-ravaged laboratory is a masterpiece of darkly comic but linear design.
2Why don't we finish games?
We all start with the best intentions, but somehow things often go awry. What's the problem, asks usability expert Graham McAllister.
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