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2026 Game Developers Choice Awards Honors Distinguished Game Designer Don Daglow With Lifetime Achievement Award and Late Interplay Co-Founder Rebecca Heineman With Ambassador Award Organizers of the ...

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Sounding off: Big-budget game prices have finally started to move after a decade and a half of stasis, but one of the designers behind Skyrim and Fallout 4 thinks publishers are close to hitting a ...

Those who make a habit of perusing the author attributions for D&D adventures may well recognize Haeck’s name already. In the past several years, they have contributed to several of the most ...

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 ...

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In the main square of the Tuscan town of Lucca, Japanese games designer Hideo Kojima stands on the balcony and receives the kind of fevered welcome reserved for rockstars from the crowd below. Lucca ...

GameSpot may get a commission from retail offers. A former Bethesda designer has some theories on why Starfield didn't take off the same way the company's other marquee RPG franchises did. Speaking to ...