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, ...

20% more colleges are offering video game design classes this year than last, and Southern Oregon University has been ahead of the trend. Share this article! Southern Oregon University has been ...

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 ...

It may seem like the fantasy of every ’80s kid who ever picked up a Game Boy but being obsessed with video games can actually offer you an array of career opportunities. The industry continues to go ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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

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 ...