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

Do you want to work in game design? Here’s why you should consider a game design bootcamp.

What do difficulty options in games actually mean? What makes a game easy, or hard? One game designer breaks down a complex topic and tries to find some common vocabulary.

Love board games? So do we! Join host Becca Scott here on Geek & Sundry for Game the Game, where she breaks out the best games in tabletop and plays them with fantastic guests.Have a great game ...

For most designers, they want their game to be played beyond a local group. So you need to see what gamers like and what other publishers are putting out there.

"Do your research carefully," cautions freelance game designer Rosa Carbo-Mascarell. Not all game design programs are created equal. In fact, they're often completely unequal.

The biggest video game developers in the industry are meeting at the E3 Media and Business Summit in Santa Monica. But for smaller players left out in the cold, a new Web site -- Kongregate.com -- is ...

Why do kids prefer playing video games to doing homework? The easy answer is - it’s more fun to play games than do homework. The real answer is much harder to stomach - game designers have ...

“Never Alone,” which closes Sunday, was an important first step in breaking the firewall between art lovers and game designers.