Rucha Rana is the Co-Founder and Editor-in-Chief of Game Insider, bringing nearly a decade of experience from leading gaming companies. She has worked as an Associate Producer at Garena, led Community Operations at JetSynthesys, and managed marketing and community roles at Ubisoft.
The global gaming industry continues to expand at an extraordinary pace. New studios emerge, live-service titles demand ongoing updates, and game engines evolve rapidly. Yet despite this growth, a troubling contradiction persists: thousands of graduates complete game development programs each year and still struggle to secure employment in professional studios.
Artificial Intelligence is rapidly changing how games are made, tested, and shipped. It is also changing how game development is taught. For students learning game development today, AI can feel like two things at once: a powerful accelerator and a quiet threat. On one hand, AI tools can speed up
When you play a game, you only experience the polished surface, the smooth controls, the beautiful world, the characters that respond instantly to your actions. What you don’t see is the enormous network of people behind it, working for months or sometimes years to bring that single moment of gameplay