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The magazine contains articles on professional game development topics relating to programming, art, audio, quality control, design, and production. Monthly columns from industry veterans offer in depth discussion on a variety of topics. It has articles by notable game industry figures and reviews on game development related books, tools, and software packages. The back page "Soapbox" was also a popular feature, however, this feature has moved to Gamasutra. The final page of Game Developer magazine is now occupied by "Thousand Words," which highlights game art as a progression from concept art to final in-game renders.

Game Developers most popular feature is probably its monthly "Postmortem" column which discusses the recent development of a computer or video game with the top five each of "What Went Right" and "What Went Wrong". It provides a frank, first-hand account of the lessons learned in the development process. The first Postmortem was featured in October 1997 and written by Andre Vrignaud on Dark Sun Online .

Game Developer has been recognizing exceptional game development tools with their "Front Line Awards" annually since 1998. Past winners include software (such as Photoshop and VTune ), game engineIn computing, a game engine is the core software component of a computer game. It typically handles rendering and other necessary technology, but might also handle additional tasks such as game AI, collision detection between game objects, etc. The most cs ( Unreal engineThe Unreal engine is one of the more popular action video game engines. First illustrated in the 1998 first-person shooter computer game Unreal it has been the basis of many such games since, including Unreal Tournament and Rainbow Six 3: Raven Shield''.), hardware ( GeForce 3The GeForce 3 was Nvidia's third-generation GeForce chip. The range included three related chipsthe GeForce 3, the GeForce 3 Ti500 and the GeForce 3 Ti200. The first GeForce 3 chips were released in March 2001, three months after Nvidia bought out the nea), and books ( Computer Graphics: Principles and Practice ).

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