The connection between humans and the machines we need for surival earned FAR: Lone Sails a nomination for Best Student Game at the Independent Games Festival. Take a peek behind the dev curtain. ...

If the price of Valve's upcoming fee-based Steam submission system is up in the ~$1k range, indie publisher Raw Fury is thinking about establishing a dedicated fund for non-partner devs to use. ...

Several game developers spoke to PCGamesN to offer their experiences and opinions about the third-party Steam-statistics tracker, Steam Spy. ...

Gamasutra writers recently put our heads together and picked some of our most-anticipated GDC sessions, with topics ranging from designing sex scenes in games to math(s) to...a grouchy fish who lived on the Dreamcast. ...

Diaries of a Spaceport Janitor gives the player the delightful job of picking up garbage on an alien world, doing your best to make ends meet with your custodial duties.  ...

Martin Sebastian Wain's game simulates simulates playing tug of war with a playful dog. It uses a string, a modified broken printer, and a video of a dog to recreate the experience. ...

After 3 decades in the industry, Bob Bates explains why he thinks the time is right for Thaumistry his return to text-based interactive fiction. [HINT: vastly improved parsers are part of it.] ...

"Even with 30 years of experience, I still got caught with stuff on this game," Gilbert told Waypoint recently, speaking to the good and bad bits of making Thimbleweed Park without a publisher. ...

Beyond just donating 100 percent of this latest bundle's sales to charity, Humble Bundle has announced that the company will match and donate up to $300k to support the ACLU, the IRC, and MSF. ...

The fan community for the discontinued game BattleForge has reportedly received the green light from EA to release an unofficial, fan revival of the free-to-play RTS. ...