With just a week and a half before the game’s official unveiling, the UK PC gaming league of gentlemen collectively known as RockPaperShotgun have been so kind as to reprint the feature on Will Wright and the team behind Spore I originally wrote for Edge magazine in the summer of 2006. I updated the piece [...]

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As you may have spotted, as of the end of July I am no longer the editor of Gamasutra.com, a post I kept both part and full-time for the past two years. With all due formalities, I had a great time running the news section of the site, meeting and talking with some of the [...]

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As The Outsider and Thrillville studio Frontier Developments announces LostWinds, its 3D platformer WiiWare launch title, Gamasutra talks to studio founder David Braben about the game’s collaborative genesis and his thoughts on the WiiWare service and downloadable landscape as a whole. Read more at Gamasutra.com.

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When Gamasutra attended the GameCity conference in Nottingham, England late last year, we encountered a series of intriguing presentations, films and demonstrations centering around games, and presented in a film festival-esque format. While there, we also got the chance to speak with some of the key speakers at the conference — including Alexey Pajitnov, creator [...]

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David Braben made his name by co-developing (with Ian Bell) Elite, a seminal space trading game originally released in 1984. The title is massively popular with European gamers, and prefigured the open world stylings that are so relevant to today’s gaming. Braben’s went on to found Frontier Developments, the studio behind the Thrillville franchise, and [...]

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[In the latest of its year-end Top Five charts, Gamasutra picks the top five games from a wide field of freeware titles released in 2007, from mucus-puzzler Gesundheit!, to the community driven serene pixel-platformer Knytt Stories.] Whittling down a list to a small handful is becoming increasingly difficult year over year as the tools available [...]

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[As part of Gamasutra's year-end retrospective, discussing notable games, events, developers, and industry figures of 2007, we take a look at the top 5 most deserving but overlooked titles for the year, from Nintendo's green-minded Chibi-Robo Park Patrol to Harmonix's iPod debut Phase.] 5. Chibi-Robo Park Patrol (Nintendo, DS) Chibi-Robo’s sophomore outing was given a [...]

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Are Disney and Warren Spector’s recently acquired Junction Point studio a match made in cartoon heaven? Probably more than you might think, and in this exclusive interview, Deus Ex creator Spector tells Gamasutra all about his extensive history in the cartoon world, and hints at his plans for the newly formed partnership. Read more at [...]

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Gamasutra talked to Media Molecule’s Alex Evans and Mark Healey, discussing how a team of four goes from founding their UK indie studio to a working PS3 prototype in just six months, their troubles (or lack of) of tackling the PS3, and the continuing story of their offbeat title Rag Doll Kung Fu. Read more [...]

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Most recently, Smith made news with his participation in the 2006 Game Developer Conference’s Game Design Challenge, where he faced off against Gears of War designer Cliffy B and Katamari Damacy creator Keita Takahashi to create a game that might win the Nobel Peace Prize. His challenge-winning entry, Peacebomb!, was a DS game that organized [...]

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