"One reviewer called it digital cocaine" – The Making of Age of Empires

The Age of Empire franchise is now a household name that has sold over 20m copies – we chat to the man behind the very first title to see how it came about

• age of empires

Are indie developers charging too little for their games?

Data from SteamSpy suggests that independent studios are selling themselves short

• Steam
• pc pricing

After seven years of growth, Green Man Gaming is going international

CEO and founder Paul Sulyok chats international, Brexit and plans for the future

• retail

How Hinterland sold 1.3m copies of The Long Dark and landed a film deal

After almost three years, The Long Dark launched out of Early Access this August

• early access
• the long dark
• video game films

From gif to game: The making of Dan Marshall's Behold the Kickmen

It started out with a gif/how did it end up like this?

• behold the kickmen
• twitter
• gif

Why Jump thinks it can do 'Netflix for games' right

Streaming service wants to help developers achieve a longer sales tail

• Streaming
• netflix for games

Byron Atkinson-Jones: 'Developers should go triple-A before they go indie'

"The reality is every game you make as an indie is your make or break"

• indie
• xiotex

Why did 500k people pay for Epic’s free-to-play title Fortnite on its first day?

Despite going free-to-play in 2018, half a million people just paid at least $39.99 for Fortnite

• fortnite
• sales data

Is Bossa's Worlds Adrift the next Minecraft?

Best known for physics games like Surgeon Simulator and I Am Bread, Bossa Studio's next title, MMO Worlds Adrift, is its most ambitious project yet

• improbable
• MMO
• SpatialOS
• bossa
• worlds adrift

‘Minecraft is awesome, but I wanted to try something new’ – Daniel Kaplan's move from Mojang to Coffee Stain

After seven years, Mojang's first employee left the company in favour of Swedish games firm Coffee Stain

• Publishing
• daniel kaplan

What went wrong with Introversion's Scanner Sombre?

Introversion saw real success with Early Access title Prison Architect, a title that's shifted well over 2m units. So why did its next title shift only 7,500 units in three months?

Warren Spector: “I always say I'm the luckiest guy in the games business"

The development legend on making games, education and working with Disney

• warren spector

Why Tencent invested in UK indie studio Milky Tea

"The news hasn't fully sunk in yet, I must admit"

• Investment
• tencent
• milky tea

How Enter the Gungeon reached 1m sales

In April 2016, Dodge Roll Games released roguelike shooter Enter the Gungeon. Now more than a year later, the title has smashed the million sales mark

• sales
• roguelike
• enter the gungeon

SpatialOS is helping Spilt Milk compete with the MMO big boys

“There are some standout games in the MMO market but it's pretty stagnant creatively in terms of genuinely offering different ways of interacting with MMOs"

• spilt milk
• improbable
• MMO
• SpatialOS