Video game modding has been a way for aspiring developers to land professional industry jobs. The creator economy has made it possible for modders to monetize the hobby independently as well. This ...

Remember the first time you picked up a controller and realized that your hand-eye-decision coordination was making big moves? You! You were not just playing but building stories, resolving conflicts, ...

Career as a skill tree Scholz is now working on developing a career development system that is inspired by skill trees in video games. "In many games, there is a visual system where you can see what ...

Former Rockstar Games co-founder Dan Houser has recalled a time when people considered video game development as far from a ...

The video game industry employs many kinds of specialists, from artists to composers to computer programmers. The most attractive workers will have a strong technical foundation, creative skills and ...

AI image generation is getting better, so much better that it could potentially present an existential threat for some video game developers. Notably, there’s no discrete tie between job loss and AI ...

As more and more colleges offer degrees in video-game programming, gaming enthusiasts are discovering that they can make designing shoot’em-ups their life’s work. But the most optimistic of young ...

The proliferation of smartphones and tablets, along with new free-to-play games luring a new audience of gamers, has helped the United States video game industry to see consistent growth despite a ...

LOS ANGELES – The path to becoming a video-game designer is a difficult one. Fortunately, the University of Southern California is not the only school to offer training in video game production. The ...

Scott DeJong receives funding from Fonds de Recherche du Québec and Fulbright Canada. Michael Iantorno receives dissertation funding from the Fonds de Recherche du Québec Société et Culture and ...

Even though only 5% of those working in video game development identify as Black, Black gamers and developers have had a significant impact on the industry. Black pioneers in video game development ...

Ironically, the more popular a video game is, the more effort fans invest in changing it. The International Trade Administration valued the video game industry at $184 billion globally in 2023. As it ...