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Or: Zombie Car Botnets are Just Around the Corner. This will all start one day when a strange feeling eases into your gut...

Think of some of your favorite sequels out there – Uncharted 2 or Portal 2 or Diablo 3. How do they make you feel? Sometimes it can be...

A few times each year, a friend of a friend will ask for advice about becoming a game designer...

I’ll know I’ve made it as a game designer when: … growing up, I design games that aren’t much fun, but I have a great time doing it...

The first problem any designer must overcome is getting their team to want to read a design. The second problem is...

In The Sims 3, we made many additions and improvements to the lovable and quirky beings we call Sims. By far, my favorite of those...

I remember learning about an array of approaches to A.I., and thinking, "None of these approaches will ever create real intelligence..."

We’re so far away from developing any artificial intelligence that is actually… well… intelligent...

One of the quandaries we had on The Sims 3 was a goal of making a deeper and more interesting game than The Sims 2, with more content to...