These are my most memorable play experiences of 2016. ...

This year Avalanche Studios senior software engineer Jacques Kerner came back with more of the deep physics work behind Just Cause 3's advanced boat simulations, producing this standout blog post. ...

At GDC 2016 experienced game devs Chaim Gingold, Joe Mirabello and Paul Kilduff-Taylor spoke candidly about failures, getting through their struggles and learning from the experience. ...

So a lot of games came out this year. Quite a few of them were pretty great. UK Editor Phill Cameron runs through the ten that stood out to him, and why they were worth noticing. ...

Havok's Ben Sunshine-Hill shows you how to set up an asynchronous task processing system so you can still use complex and long-running AI computation in real time -- without sacrificing game quality. ...

Friends, we made it through another year. What times we had! What interesting twists and turns our lives took! Amid it all we played some video games, didn't we? Here are a few of my favorites. ...

A recent Polygon feature collected stories from several game development veterans to highlight the inconsistent and unfair way many companies treat their contracted workforce. ...

I fell a bit behind with new games this year, and because of this ended up not buying a lot of the big 2016 releases. While that was great for my backlog, it's not so great for making top ten lists. ...

Through my travels this year, I've been privy to a bunch of interesting independent games that were not at all on my radar previously. ...

There's something surprising waiting at the end of Inside, and in a talk titled "Huddle up!: Making the [SPOILER] of 'Inside'" a team of Playdead devs will explain how (and why) they built it. ...