A tale of two cities: How the City of Heroes community is creating a successor

By Megan Farokhmanesh on May 02, 2013 05.02.13

Before City of Heroes closed, Kaylan Lyndell-Lees used it as speech therapy for her children. Now she's working to help fill the void.

Test Drive: From Gamer to Racer

By Jeff Dunn on May 01, 2013 05.01.13

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The ballad of Bryan Heitkotter, a man who turned Gran Turismo into a dream job

Between a Rockman and a Hard Place: The Fan-made Mega Man

By Justin Amirkhani on Apr 30, 2013 04.30.13

Hell hath no fury like a fanboy scorned.

The Longest Journey of Ragnar Tornquist

By Emily Gera on Apr 25, 2013 04.25.13

How the creator of Dreamfall got back to his roots.

Cloned at Birth: The Story of Ridiculous Fishing

By Russ Pitts on Apr 24, 2013 04.24.13

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Over two years of interviews, Vlambeer tells Polygon the inside story of how it beat the clones and launched the best-reviewed iOS game of 2013.

Bronies fighting Ponies: the Magic of Friendship

By Colin Campbell on Apr 23, 2013 04.23.13

How one group of dedicated fans bucked convention and challenged an empire (of toys).

The Long Con: High in the Wild with Monaco

By Sam Machkovech on Apr 18, 2013 04.18.13

How four months turned into more than three years of indie development prison.

BitSummit Rising: Japan's Indie Ambassador

By Chris Plante on Apr 17, 2013 04.17.13

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"[At E3 2012], people I’ve long admired asked, ‘How is the indie game development scene in Japan?’ I didn’t know what to tell them."

-Yohei Kataoka, director of Tokyo Jungle

The president and future of Platinum Games

By Matt Leone on Apr 16, 2013 04.16.13

After decades in the trenches at Capcom, Tatsuya Minami is building an empire one game at a time.

Breathe In The Road: Cardboard Computer and Kentucky Route Zero

By Charlie Hall on Apr 11, 2013 04.11.13

With Act 2 of their five-act piece on the horizon, artists Jake Elliott and Tamas Kemenczy discuss their past and their process and speak to their critics.

Ciji is a Robot Jockey with Something to Prove

By John Funk on Apr 10, 2013 04.10.13

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A day in the life of a working-class game hero.

A Game Development Love Story

By Colin Campbell on Apr 09, 2013 04.09.13

Maintaining a job, a marriage and the spare-time creation of an RPG threatened to be too much for one man — until his wife decided to step in.

High school memories: A series of Persona 4 letters

By Leigh Alexander on Apr 04, 2013 04.04.13

Suburban high school students in Japan have a lot to teach about game design.

We Built a Booth

By Jeff Dunn on Apr 03, 2013 04.03.13

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Meet the people, problems, motivations and games behind this year's PAX East Indie Megabooth.

Why aren't video game actors treated like stars?

By David Griner on Apr 02, 2013 04.02.13

Voice actors anchor billion-dollar games but only get paid by the hour.

GDC: The gathering of the game makers

By Colin Campbell on Mar 25, 2013 03.25.13

What started in a bedroom is now the largest gathering of game creators on earth.

How Milo met Kate: The story behind Lionhead's virtual boy

By Matt Leone on Mar 21, 2013 03.21.13

How Peter Molyneux's most ambitious creation fell short.

Uber's Hail Mary: The long road of Monday Night Combat

By Alex Rubens on Mar 19, 2013 03.19.13

How three men risked their careers (and their bank accounts) to build a game no one else understood.

Community service: The story of Chicago's Indie City Arcade cabinet

By Andrew Hayward on Mar 14, 2013 03.14.13

How a pair of public game projects and a loose local indie scene came together to create a free-to-play arcade cabinet full of drinking-themed games

The Opposite of Fail: The story of FTL

By Tracey Lien on Mar 12, 2013 03.12.13

The little game that could ... raise more than 20 times what it asked for.

Fired for Making a Game: The Inside Story of I Get This Call Every Day

By Colin Campbell on Mar 07, 2013 03.07.13

How a protest game tangled with powerful interests.

Punched out: EA's ill-fated Marvel Comics fighter

By Andrew Hayward on Mar 05, 2013 03.05.13

How boredom and overconfidence led EA's Chicago studio to ditch its cash cow and gamble its future on an ambitious — but directionless — superhero game.

No Place like Jersey: Inside the factory of the wizard of pinball

By Chris Plante on Feb 28, 2013 02.28.13

The future of pinball depends on New Jersey

Drink and Revive: The rise of Barcade

By Simon Parkin on Feb 26, 2013 02.26.13

How a Brooklyn bar rekindled New York's interest in gaming's fading past and trained the new Donkey Kong world champion.

Civil War: The Public Death of Mad Minute Games

By Rob Zacny on Feb 21, 2013 02.21.13

The opposite of a success story.

Nostalgia vs. narrative: A series of adventure game letters

By Leigh Alexander on Feb 20, 2013 02.20.13

When freelancers Leigh Alexander and Quintin Smith strike up a correspondence, they aim to...

Design by Osmosis: The Story of Outernauts

By Dave Tach on Feb 19, 2013 02.19.13

How Insomniac struck gold by striking out.

The art outside the box: The story of Roger Dean

By Tracey Lien on Feb 14, 2013 02.14.13

How the visionary artist fused architecture, art, music and games into one psychedelic whole.

From two-person team to Activision workhorse: the rise and rise of Vicarious Visions

By Chris Plante on Feb 13, 2013 02.13.13

How a couple of ill-fated indie games led the Bala brothers and Vicarious Visions to mainstream success.

The Sinner's Sandwich: Deadly Premonition's creator on making a good bad game

By Philip Kollar on Feb 12, 2013 02.12.13

Looking at the development struggles and future prospects of Deadly Premonition cult icon Swery.
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