Developer Josh Ge walks through coding achievements for Cogmind: why and how they were chosen, the creation of 256 icons, and the implementation -- including related UI features and Steam integration. ...

Each featured game either transforms real-world spaces in which they are played, inspires a strong community or social space, or makes interesting use of board or level design.  ...

Failbetter Games has put together an event that aims to celebrate indie games and the communities that support them, all while highlighting how reviews can help indie devs. ...

"I'm excited about the hybrid," Ismail told GamesBeat. "About seeing indie studios tackle that [$5M-$10M] gap in the industry...not quite big enough to be triple-A and not small enough to be indie." ...

Brazilian VFX artist Gregory Silva explains some of the techniques, animations and shaders he used to recreate some of the VFX from the game The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild in Unity. ...

This week's highlights include a piece on random number generation in classic games, what the upcoming Tetris Effect can learn from other classic updates, & lots more. ...

"At first, it looked like a normal fluctuation...By Monday morning, most of them lost from 80% to 90% of new organic traffic. They are now all in the same boat, that is about to sink." ...

Amy Hennig has departed Electronic Arts, telling Eurogamer that she officially left the company (and her role as creative director on EA Vancouver's unnamed Star Wars game) in January. ...

"There's going to be more people doing this kind of thing going forward because it removes some of the technical risk," Bithell says after making first Subsurface, then Quarantine Circular. ...

"We have a significant global focus on driving our digital business...independent games are a critical part of that," Fils-Aime told Waypoint. "We continue to look at other ways to enhance curation." ...