Slime Rancher dev Nick Popovich shares a snippet of a nice fan letter from a mother who says a love for Slime Rancher inspired her dyslexic son to develop his writing and problem-solving skills. ...

Through a partnership with GameStop, IndieBox is gearing up to sell a selection of popular indie games physically in stores with limited-run steelbooks. ...

The 2014 Nidhogg was a minimalist duel between two monochromatic stick figures. The sequel adds more graphical detail and more weapons, but tries to maintain the accessible simplicity of the original. ...

"The reality is, left to our own devices, we as developers would never ship a game," Naughty Dog co-director Bruce Straley tells Vice in a new feature on why it's so dang hard to make video games. ...

"Work to actively create diverse teams and to create diverse spaces for development. It is good for games as a whole to represent a wider variety of viewpoints." ...

Get a look at some hard data about the (impending? imminent? ongoing?) indiepocalypse that's affecting game sales worldwide. ...

Trinket Studio's cooking battle game mixes Iron Chef's humor and Chopped's pace with the art style of a great anime film. ...

"The story of that time I won an award, flipped off everybody in the room, and met one of my favorite authors." ...

Minecraft, Kerbal Space, and even Civilization all have instructional spin-off versions. But do educators know how to integrate games into the classroom? We got the takes of some educational game devs. ...

Infinite-0 and Diaries of a Spaceport Janitor are among the 12 games that received awards at the 2016 IndieCade festival this past weekend. ...