How can we make game communities better? At the 2017 Game Developers Conference, Two Hat/Community Sift chief Chris Priebe will explore the topic in a talk on "Trolls: The Cost of Doing Nothing." ...

The latest Video Game Deep Cuts, picking the smartest longform video game articles and videos of the week, examines Dishonored 2 from multiple angles, The Last Guardian, & alternate game credits displays. ...

The second major story DLC pack for CD Projekt Red's The Witcher 3 won awards in two categories during the 34th annual player's choice Golden Joystick Awards. ...

"I want to talk about a few other aspects of indie development that aren't often talked about. Whether you're an aspiring developer or an experienced veteran looking back, I hope you can relate." ...

"Antegods' lead programmer Niels Uiterwijk shares some insights into our networking code. How do we make those infernal PC machines talk to each other?" ...

The Eidos-Montreal-developed game walked away with awards in a quarter of the total categories featured at the Canadian Videogame Awards. ...

"This is sort of a solution to the discoverability problem, right?" Zach Barth said of his new puzzle game Shenzhen I/O. "To make something that is really unique and that you have an audience for." ...

Choice. Consequence. Complicity. These, according to former Faillbetter chief Alexis Kennedy, are key to writing great narratives for non-linear games, as he explains in this GDC 2016 talk. ...

The third annual Game Awards kick off just a few short weeks from today, with games like Uncharted 4, Inside, and Overwatch competing for the Game of the Year award. ...

The folks behind GDC 2017's Experimental Gameplay Workshop are calling for submissions of your interesting new (and playable!) video game prototypes. The more intriguing and experimental, the better! ...