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. ...

2016 was a rough year for our emotions, but a great year for making video games. Contributing editor and Twitch producer Bryant Francis runs down his top 10 games for the year, and why you should play them. ...

Wow, I liked video games a lot in 2016. ...

This is a story of our new trailer which started with pencil sketches and ended with having Doug Cockle, the voice of Geralt of Rivia from The Witcher series, in it one day before our deadline. ...

When were you first bitten by the game design bug? Was it a mod level? A playground game? A cool Mario level scribbled in crayon? We asked 19 developers to share their origin stories with us. ...

At the 2016 Game Developers Conference earlier this year, Minor Key Games' Kyle Pittman shared a programmer-friendly, mathematical approach to making better jump systems in platformer games. ...

Gamasutra contributor Katherine Cross names her 10 favorite games of the previous year. ...

Electronic Arts' Paul Rybicki is a veteran game maker, and at GDC next year he'll be sharing some critical design wisdom in his UX Summit talk on "UX Methodologies for Holistic Product Design."  ...