For example, a game developer's software could improve the realism of a military simulation system.
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Plano, TX based game developer Gearbox has been in the game-making business for a long time.
Wizard101 is a massively multiplayer online fantasy game for children from Texas-based game developer KingsIsle Entertainment.
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Prior acquisitions also include mobile game developer NewToy and Texas-based Bonfire Studios.
Indie game developer Wollay is responsible for the RPG game in the video above.
Also arriving is The Sims FreePlay from leading game developer and publisher, Electronic Arts Inc. (EA).
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So call your congress-critter or your video game developer and ask them to support better legislation.
Now inXile, the game developer behind Torment and the previously Kickstarter-funded Wastelands 2, has released stretch goals.
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The game developer works with a decorated team of military veterans and U.S. soldiers returning from war.
Social Web startups and companies are currently in their heyday, with Facebook game developer Zynga and others taking off.
The first fruits of the partnership arrive this year in game developer-centric versions of the aforementioned three workstation models.
"The programmers of tomorrow are the wizards of the future, " says Gabe Newell, co-founder of video game developer Valve.
These actions support our strategy to transition from being a first-party web game developer to a multi-platform game network.
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In just one day, the video game developer has nearly funded its RPG.
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The company has every major social game developer using Credits, from which it takes a 30% cut with each transaction.
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But both of those products benefited from excellent production processes and a superlative relationship between IP holder and game developer.
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With a name like Zombie Studios, you'd assume that "Daylight" isn't the first horror game from the independent game developer.
At E3 2012, Japanese mobile game developer GREE had a huge presence, as did the US-bound WeMade Entertainment.
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Social gaming company Zynga has been moving to bolster itself as a gaming platform, not just a game developer.
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One of the perks of being a game developer is getting behind the wheel of the fastest cars in the world.
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But while the news typically sounds good or, at the very worst, cautious, Zynga is anything but a safe game developer.
Like many of its counter-parts on Kickstarter, it appeals to the indie gamer as much as to the indie game developer.
On a press call on Thursday morning, the social games company said that it had purchased a mobile game developer, Newtoy.
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But the game developer actually seems to take its own claim seriously.
The opposite question has hovered around online game developer Zynga Inc.
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And thanks, Mom, for putting up with the whole game developer thing.
Likewise, maybe the game developer rushed the game out the door with less than perfect directions or a less than perfect design.
The company's even giving a duo of talks at the upcoming Game Developer's Conference on the difficulties of game development for virtual reality.
"My wife is not going to buy that for the family, " says Craig Holland, chief executive officer of casual game developer Freeze Tag.
The video-game developer best known for its "Grand Theft Auto" franchise posted a quarterly net loss and fiscal 2009 forecast below Wall Street's estimates.
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