This week, our partnership with game criticism site Critical Distance brings us picks from Taylor Hidalgo on topics ranging from board games and weak AI to monetizing for bots. ...

A quick list of insights into game creation from a Liam Welton, Director of Game Development at Failbetter Games (Sunless Sea): short, practical, and helpful. ...

Winifred Phillips (God of War, LittleBigPlanet series) brings together a series of resources to help you capitalize on the challenges and opportunities of creating game audio for VR titles. ...

'Prominence was developed while the studio was concurrently doing client work. Some weeks only saw 10 hours of Prominence time, while other weeks would get 40 hours or more.' ...

Charity speed running event Awesome Games Done Quick (AGDQ) managed to raise $1.2 million for the Prevent Cancer Foundation in just seven days.  ...

"Designing levels for VR was an interesting learning process and having a familiar foundation to start with helped a lot to achieve good results. It's being great to be involved in this sense of novelty around VR experimentation." ...

"Depth has been an incredible journey. The game is still going strong which seems to increasingly a rare thing for indie multiplayer games these days. It's been a roller coaster ride and one I would repeat again!" ...

With GDC coming up fast, conference officials highlight a great GDC 2016 talk about the scoring of Everybody's Gone To The Rapture from composer Jessica Curry. ...

"As a fan of indie games, I find the lack of thought in many negative Steam user reviews disturbing. As a marketing consultant who has seen the impact these reviews have on sales, I find this apathy appalling." ...

The 16th annual Game Developers Choice Awards nominees also include Metal Gear Solid V, The Witcher 3 and Undertale - with the winners to be revealed at GDC this March. ...