[In this weekly column, Gamasutra rounds up the most popular paid and free iPad gaming applications on the App Store as of today, with N.O.V.A. 3, Angry Birds Space and Highway Rider currently ranking among the platform's top downloads.] This…

[Psychology plays a key role in smart game design, and Gamasutra contributor Jamie Madigan explores this principle by discussing how a player's confidence in making predictions affects their overall behavior.] Imagine that some wealthy lunatic comes to you with an…

[Gamasutra Classics is a new weekly article that flashes back to content published years ago, because the most valuable lessons grow better with age.] October 25, 2000 — Twelve months of exhausting crunch: That’s what it took for Blizzard North…

[Gamasutra highlights choice quotes from game industry figures such as Epic Games' Mark Rein, Loot Drop's Brenda Brathwaite, Leisure Suit Larry's Al Lowe, and many others.] In our original and exclusive interviews, analysis, and feature pieces over the past week,…

This week on “Best Of Indie Games,” we take a look at some of the top independent PC Flash/downloadable titles released over this last week. The goodies in this edition include more notable entries from the Ludum Dare 23 competition,…

After several months of confusion over the rights to the ‘Dota’ label, Valve Software and Blizzard Entertainment have settled their differences and have decided terms for how each studio will use the Defense of the Ancients-inspired name. Under this new…

Newsbrief: Casual game developer PopCap will release two new games from its popular Plants vs. Zombies series for Android devices in China, and has tailored the titles for the country. Developed by the Electronic Arts subsidiary’s Shanghai studio, the games…

Over the past several months, EA has seen some major gains as it moves its business away from traditional packaged goods and into the digital market, but the company’s recently-promoted EVP of digital, Kristian Segerstrale, thinks EA still has a…

In a new Gamasutra interview, Cliff Bleszinski, design director at Gears of War studio Epic Games, explained what he thinks Japanese game developers can do to improve their standing in the global video game marketplace. “My advice to Japan is…

The U.S. retail video game decline is simply down to a severe lack of game releases compared to previous years, analysts have said, as publishers continue to aggressively slash title output. Data from the NPD Group this week showed that…