The SpecialEffect charity helps people with disabilities play video games, and it has raised over £300k (~$392k USD) to fund its charitable work during its recent One Special Day fundraising event. ...

This fantastic series of microtalks (delivered at GDC 2017's Game Career Seminar) offers would-be game devs (especially women) some career advice gleaned from notable devs' own industry experiences. ...

Many hardcore survival sims from Eastern European davs have found passionate niche audiences. We spoke to the makers of Life is Feudal, Escape from Tarkov, and Legends of Eisenwald about this trend. ...

"Flappy Bird knows what it is," says Vollmer in a new episode of Designer Notes. "The problem with Semi-Automatic is we didn't know who this was for. We were just making it for, like, the world." ...

Auroch Digital talks about the challenges of faithfully adapting Steve Jackson Games' classic 1977 tabletop title Ogre. ...

How does a game get its name? That's the question No More Robots founder Mike Rose posed on Twitter today, and the responses he got (from 80 Days to Rock Band) are worth reading. ...

Now, many years later, developer Brendon Chung has uploaded a playlist that showcases how different facets of the IGF award-nominated game were developed using a modified Quake 2 engine. ...

"The initial plan was to get us involved in doing something that was a little bit more fluid," ex-Sony exec Neil Soane tells Zam in a tale about how PlayStation's big indie push started on the PSP Go. ...

At GDC 2017, Broken Rules' Clemens Scott spoke frankly about how Old Man's Journey got its unique look -- and how they set up their art pipeline to efficiently produce that look. ...

"As developers we know what we want to talk about, but it takes asking people how they felt after playing and why. That's the only way to get this right." ...