[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,…