Gamasutra Feature Articles

The End of RTS? A Command & Conquer 4 Interview

Fri, 19 Mar 2010 12:00:00 -0400

EALA lead designer Sam Bass discusses the ideas that his team has injected into Command & Conquer 4, the last game in the series, to help make the RTS genre more approachable to newcomers and more satisfying to all.

The Story of Score Studios: Westerners Move East

Thu, 18 Mar 2010 12:00:00 -0400

The story behind two Westerners who moved to work at Japanese game studios and then set up their own indie, Score Studios -- and why they've chosen to set up shop in the country widely assumed to be struggling hardest when it comes to development.

Interview: The Shape of God of War III

Wed, 17 Mar 2010 12:00:00 -0400

Sony Santa Monica senior producer Steve Caterson talks the development processes and content concerns that informed the development of SCEA's biggest sequel of the generation -- and what the franchise's future may hold.

Free To Play Games, Meet The Virtual IOU

Tue, 16 Mar 2010 12:00:00 -0400

An examination of the introduction of Kwedit, a kid-centric service to allow gamers to promise to pay for virtual items and then deliver on it later may be the start of an important way to boost free-to-play revenues... or a mere blip.