The latest Video Game Deep Cuts, picking the smartest longform video game articles and videos of the week, looks at 'vanishing secrets' in games, Skyrim wrestling dragons & the making of Donkey Kong. ...

The Independent Games Festival -- the longest-running and largest showcase for independent developers -- festival has seen more than 650 entries for its 19th annual competition. ...

"Best practices and established mechanics were useless or sometimes actively misleading, so we had to search for an optimal way to transfer the FPS experience into VR." -Dirk Van Welden, project lead on Space Pirate Trainer ...

At GDC 2016, independent designer Dietrich Squinkifer took the stage to share techniques you can use to create a more varied emotional palette in play experiences, in video games or otherwise. ...

"We noticed that we weren't in tune with the latest developments. I don't like clicker games, I don't get Twitch... We did't see options anymore. That meant it was time to move on." ...

"We noticed that we weren't in tune with the latest developments. I don't like clicker games, I don't get Twitch... We did't see options anymore. That meant it was time to move on." ...

YoYo Games has announced GameMaker Studio 2, a new development tool that rebuilds the Studio platform with a new UI, node based coding, and overall updated workspaces. ...

The winners of this year's Unity Awards have been announced, with Playdead's dystopian platformer taking home the Golden Cube award for best overall game.  ...

"Mashing together XCOM-like base building and JRPG-style combat into a cohesive design was much harder than anticipated ... and we anticipated it would be quite hard." ...

At Unite Los Angeles today, Unity has announced it will debut an open beta of its VR editor toolset (used while wearing a VR headset) on December 15th -- and Unity says it will be open-source. ...