Forget everything you've heard about "dopamine" -- Epic Games' Ben-Lewis Evans is giving a great, well-informed talk at GDC 2017 that will empower you to build better game reward systems. ...

Having previously released all of his games for free on PC on his site, now, game dev Locomalito is releasing his excellent games on consoles, striking out into new markets. ...

Sand Garden is a sandbox game--literally. It has players sticking their hands in heaps of sand, moving and shaping it to create valleys and mountains to make virtual villagers happy. ...

"It breaks my heart," Iranian game developer Mahdi Bahrami (Engare, Farsh) recently told Glixel. "It's like all the hopes we had for the past few years are just gone." ...

"If you're looking for diversity, for new perspectives, there are really a lot of new perspectives in those countries the US is blocking," Iranian game dev Mahdi Bahrami (Engare, Farsh) told Glixel. ...

"If you're looking for diversity, for new perspectives, there are really a lot of new perspectives in those countries the US is blocking," Iranian game dev Mahdi Bahrami (Engare, Farsh) told Glixel. ...

My hope is then that the horror [in games] will go away from hunted-by-monster scenarios," Grip told PC Gamer recently. "And try to recreate other types of horror in a playable fashion." ...

This will be Schafer's sixth time hosting the big Game Developers Choice Awards show, and you know what they say -- sixth time's the charm! ...

Spain has been facing a severe economic depression for several years now, but that hasn't stopped its game developers from telling the stories they want to tell. ...

Gregory Kogos' RotoRing is about avoiding danger, dodging the deadly spots on a pair of LED rings using a rotating knob for movement and a button. ...