Blizzard forgot to turn off x-ray vision in World of Warcraft’s new prop hunt mode, so you can imagine how fair the matches are right now

The last thing you want in a game mode where players disguise themselves as furniture in a World of Warcraft city is free access to x-ray vision. There’s no fun to be had when you’re just chasing after dots on your minimap instead of studying a suspicious table that you could’ve sworn moved a little….

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Behaviour Interactive lays off more people as ‘demand for mobile and casual external development projects has declined’

Dead by Daylight developer Behaviour Interactive has confirmed the layoff of an undisclosed number of employees, telling Game Developer the cuts were made as a result of reduced demand for external development partnerships. “A portion of Behaviour Interactive’s business has traditionally focused on external development partnerships. In recent months, demand for mobile and casual external…

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Google executive responsible for AI has a solution for the game industry’s problems, and you’re not going to believe this but it’s AI

Jack Buser is Google Cloud global director for games, a role in which he “enable[s] transformation of game industry developers, publishers and platforms with AI and cloud solutions.” And from that lofty perch he has devised a solution for the woes plaguing the videogame business. Can you guess what it is? I’ll tell you: It’s…

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Fallout co-creator says non-linear design is all about never assuming how players will act, illustrates his point by fantasising about an NPC guard he seems to really hate

Fallout co-creator Tim Cain has a new video going over some of his principles for game design, and as you might expect has some strong opinions on the intersection between design intention, and what players actually end up doing. “Rule one, our game is non-linear—don’t assume that players will go somewhere first or talk to…

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Fallout: New Vegas dev says it could’ve been set in New Orleans because ‘the vibe was so cool, the flavor was cool, [it would’ve been] so sweet’

Fallout: New Vegas writer and former Obsidian creative officer, Chris Avellone, has given a new interview to Fallout content creator TKs-Mantis, and it’s a hefty one. Perhaps the most eyebrow-raising assertion is that Bethesda doesn’t have the source code for New Vegas (I’ve asked Bethesda about this, and haven’t had a response yet), but there’s…

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There’s no memory crisis in space, as astronauts on the ISS are getting new laptops with 128 GB of RAM and a seriously beefy specs sheet

While us mere Earth-dwellers are stuck in the middle of the RAMpocalypse, those bourgeoise folks up on the International Space Station have no such worries. The current crew are reviewing plans to replace network servers on the gigantic floating tin can—and discussing when they can activate their new laptops. And what magnificent machines they appear…

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