I always liked the animated portraits in StarCraft (and StarCraft 2), it makes the units more "alive", not to mention their quotes which gives them personality. Think about what happens when you keep clicking... But I've come to wonder, is SC (or other Blizzard games) the only ones to have anima...

In Dead Island, Purna has a Survival skill called Second Chance (bottom left) which has a chance of instantly reviving Purna upon death. When a player dies in a car, unlike outside of cars, the player dies instantaneously with no chance to be revived. Can the Second Chance skill keep a vehicle-oc...

In Dead Island, the character Purna has a Survival skill called Jackpot (just before the bottom) which "increases your chance to find rare items among loot." I was wondering how effective this is, like if there's a 20% chance to find greens, does it bump it up to 21%? Or is there an AwesomeLevel ...

In Dead Island, an attack with a weapon, that lands on an enemy has a chance of being a critical hit, dealing more damage and applying the special effect of the weapon if it can do so. People often speak of critical hit chance by adding up explicit bonus values but not a default one, which if it ...

In Dead Island, there are named legendary weapons which are an upper class of orange rarity, la crème da la crème. Wikis document named legendary firearms, but I have never seen one spawn nor have I seen anyone with one in my community where modding is not possible. Could I ever find one of these?

I recently got this message from my employee: A bunch of fans have re-used material from my game about a pirate's adventure in The Scene. What are the advantages and disadvantages of stopping the fans or letting them be?

In Dead Island, there are two types of shotguns: shotguns and short shotguns. In comparison to the latter, the former holds two more shells, is more accurate, shoots fewer pellets, and seems to reload faster. If I want to make sure that I don't miss any pellets with a short shotgun, I have to get...

I recently got this sales report: As subtly hinted by my game's name, I developed an Action Sports game for the Gameling platform. Turns out this wasn't very popular with the target audience. Hence, my question: Which platforms are popular with which target audiences?

In Borderlands, some COMs like Scavenger and Catalyst can come with a bottom line bonus which is either +1 or +2 Find Rare Items. What's this do?

Title says it all - does having your people sleep in a bed provide an advantage like faster fatigue regeneration?

What are the specific differences between the platforms? Which family is better suited for games of a type/genre/audience? Why should I develop games for one vs the other, considering they are very close in market volume pretty consistently? Are games with higher graphics or tech values better on...