”The games business is a crapshoot,” said Chris Crawford, a San Jose game designer who by most accounts is one of the few successful independent computer game authors.

GameSpot talks with four prominent game designers about what it takes to do their jobs, and how to get involved in game design.

If you want to make games, you might be considering getting a game design degree, the same way you would for many other careers. But the path from standard education to studio job or starting up ...

Students at UC Santa Cruz majoring in computer game design are the lucky beneficiaries of a settlement reached in a class action lawsuit involving video gaming employees at Sony.

The University of California, Santa Cruz, has approved a new major in computer game design, the first of its kind in the UC system. The new major, leading to a B.S. degree, provides students with a ...

There is a huge library of books out there that provide reference guides to programming, and there’s a smaller selection dedicated specifically to techniques used by game developers. Recently ...

You might think of computer games as the territory of computer geeks and social outcasts, but games designer Paul McInnes is quite the opposite.

Even if you're a casual fan of computer or video games, chances are you've heard of Sid Meier, the veteran computer game designer who co-founded MicroProse with Bill Stealey in 1982.