After another fantastic show, conference officials confirm GDC and VRDC will be returning to the Moscone Center in San Francisco from Monday, March 19 to Friday, March 23, 2018! ...

"The Conan World is extremely diverse culturally and technologically and we wanted those aspects to be represented in a way that went beyond lore and setting."  ...

"The Conan World is extremely diverse culturally and technologically and we wanted those aspects to be represented in a way that went beyond lore and setting."  ...

This week's Video Game Deep Cuts long read/video highlights include Zelda's Switch inspirations, the modding scene of Cities: Skylines, & lots more. ...

"When I look at what games can do that other media can't, I instantly go right to the immersive sim," Warren Spector said in a chat (hosted by PC Gamer) with fellow devs about immersive sim games. ...

"I kind of wish that I had actually made it a game about learning fractions," Frog Fractions dev Jim Crawford tells Noclip in a new video doc. "That also has all this other weird shit in it." ...

There are several things developers both big and small can do to try and cut back on overwork and crunch, but, as Steve Copeland notes, "it's not easy getting these stars to align." ...

"The best social shares are those that players genuinely WANT to share." Tara Brannigan breaks down exactly what makes a moment shareable by looking to games that nailed the formula. ...

"You don�t get to pick who takes your advice when you�re doing a talk," cautioned Lisa Brown in one of her three GDC talks. Brown discussed the themes of her talks on the GDC X One Life Left podcast. ...

The three-week long event will teach young girls, aged 11 to 14, to design, program, and publish their own games under the tutelage of local game developers and female PlayStation devs and executives. ...