A common thread running through a lot of my picks, now that I've had time to reflect, is that the best games teach me how to speak with them. ...

Jason Hickey, lead environment artist on Insomniac Games' upcoming Spider-Man offers practical tips about what it takes to be a great environment artist -- and no, it's not all about making pretty things. ...

From shockingly dark visual novels to infinitely cheerful golf adventures, I managed to play a healthy variety of wonderful games in 2017 despite nearly doubling my backlog at the same time. ...

For the tenth year running, the perennially popular Microtalks session is happening at GDC 2018! Come get a rapid-fire rundown of some of the most interesting and pressing matters in the game industry. ...

2017 in the video game industry was essentially a game of Playerunknown's Battlegrounds. Here are the trends that defined a year of fighting over a chicken dinner. ...

This installment of Video Game Deep Cuts includes pieces about the death and rebirth of Dance Dance Revolution, the resurrection of gorgeous vector arcade game Aztarac after its creator's death, and lots more. ...

"Board games are software that run on people," says game designer Tim Fowers in his GDC 2017 Board Game Design Day talk about the design and development of his co-op heist board game Burgle Bros. ...

Game Developers Conference 2018 organizers have once again selected 20 great, one-of-a-kind games for next year's alt.ctrl.GDC, an on-site playable exhibit of alternative control schemes and games. ...

Here we have a host of stories from devs across the industry (and across the years/platforms) about less-than-righteous methods used to fit levels, textures, & entire games into their required spaces. ...

In this 2014 GDC session Capy Games' technical director Kenneth Yeung discusses the game design difficulties of time manipulation in Super Time Force. ...