Monthly postmortems dissected the industry's leading games, from AAA console to social and mobile games and beyond, and columns gave insight into deeper development practices from across all disciplines, from design, to programming, to art, to business, and audio.

Monthly columns from industry veterans offered in depth discussion on a variety of topics.

The back page "Soapbox" was also a popular feature but moved to sister site to Gamasutra circa 2004.

The first Postmortem was featured in October 1997 and written by Andre Vrignaud on Dark Sun Online.

It was not part of the closure that resulted in Game Developer's cessation and continued some features from the magazine.