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. ...

"It's a bit like we've built a mock-up of the consoles from a real space capsule, but instead of mimicking a real one, we built it based on a fake retro sci-fi aesthetic of our own design." ...

In Duskers, players scrounge for scrap parts, combing through derelict freighters in the cold void of space. They are forced to send drones to do the dirty work, issuing orders through command lines. ...

"We analyzed how Viewcones were used in the old games and decided on where we wanted to improve it. This also lead us to re-thinking some aspects of player detection in the genre." ...

This week's Video Game Deep Cuts include everything from a witty video appreciation of Kingdom's design to an Alpha Protocol retrospective, & lots more. ...

It would be an understatement to say that Valve's announcement of plans to replace Steam Greenlight with a fee-based game submission system sparked some passionate responses from game developers. ...

It would be an understatement to say that Valve's announcement of plans to replace Steam Greenlight with a fee-based game submission system sparked some passionate responses from game developers. ...