The 17th annual Game Developers Choice Awards nominees also include Pokemon Go, The Last Guardian and Dishonored 2 - with the winners to be revealed at GDC 2017 in February & March! ...

At GDC 2017 Treachery in Beatdown City dev Shawn Allen will talk about how he approached creating dozens of characters of various ethnicities in a fictional NY, and how he too has stumbled.  ...

"This a game built from the ground up for the western market. Arabic games that are successful in Saudi Arabia are tightly grouped around football, racing, card games, and online strategy." ...

"VR offers new ways of interacting that allow us to get much closer to that mouse and pointer functionality by turning your face into a mouse pointer," says Ian Moran, technical director of Tethered. ...

The developers at Redlock Studio explain why they decided to switch their sidescrolling 2.5D action game into full 3D when facing the game's powerful bosses. ...

Grasshopper Manufacture's first game, The Silver Case, just got an HD Remaster. We spoke with some of the developers of the game, discussing character design, story, and the port itself. ...

The latest Video Game Deep Cuts, picking the smartest longform video game articles and videos of the week, twins near-final 'best of 2016' articles with a Frog Fractions 2 expose or two. ...

In the spirit of the holiday, we asked @Gamasutra's Twitter followers (you can become one right now!) to tell us about their dev-related New Year's resolutions. ...

Sean Bouchard is a USC teacher, and at GDC 2017 he'll speak to how the video game streaming platform offers educators of game design and analysis an opportunity to improve their teaching practice. ...

In a year full of great games, we all have one or two indelible gameplay moments that stand out for us. We asked several designers to tell us about their most memorable game moments of the year. ...