This week's highlights include a look at the baffling The Quiet Man, a piece on HQ Trivia's struggles to continue its success, and a look at how credits in video games still aren't going quite right. ...

Microsoft has announced the acquisition of RPG-centric studios Obsidian and inXile Entertainment, as part of a host of announcements at its X08 event in Mexico. ...

Loom creator Brian Moriarty takes the stage at GDC 2011 to deliver a thoughtful defense of critic Roger Ebert's industry-stirring sentiment that 'video games can never be art.' ...

Katherine Cross examines Lucas Pope's Return of the Obra Dinn, "a mystery that makes a grand and intricate game out of deduction, whose minimal inputs still manage to cohere into syphonic play." ...

The Level Design Workshop returns to GDC 2019 for the tenth year running, and if you care at all about levelcraft you won't want to overlook this day-long series of talks! ...

UI designer (and now digital marketer) Chris Zukowski gives you all the details of the email marketing campaign that helped boost Kitfox Games' dungeon crawler Boyfriend Dungeon. ...

Featuring talks from some of the biggest studios in the business, the Tools Tutorial Day returns to GDC 2019 to offer you a deep dive on building tools that enable teams to ship amazing games. ...

Organized for the 6th year running by Adriel Wallick, Train Jam is a one-of-a-kind opportunity for devs to ride the rails and build games together, which will then be part of an on-site GDC showcase!  ...

Historians reflect on the game industry's bumpy track record of accurately crediting developers, and make a case for why standardizing game credits is critical if we want to understand the industry. ...

This week's highlights include the top news from Blizzcon around Diablo and other devilish titles, Toby Fox's Deltarune & his radical transparency, and Marty O'Donnell talking 'The Music Of The Spheres'. ...