Players will battle colossal bosses, their styles drawn from 1930s animation, as hot jazz blares in their ears in ever-escalating run and gun game Cuphead. ...

Side quests can make or break your game. Here, notable devs suggest some games that do side quests notably well, and Chris Avellone offers guidelines on how to design a great side quest. ...

This week's longform highlights include Phil Spencer's speech at the DICE Summit, how the Switch is encouraging people to play games they wouldn't otherwise, & rare documents on The Oregon Trail's history. ...

Bot Party lets players make beautiful music together through touch and machines, having them make physical connections while holding cute robots to produce songs. ...

Into the Breach is a game of tactical mech combat, one where the enemies telegraph their moves, turning each match into a kind of puzzle that needs to be studied and completed. ...

To prepare for the big GDC 2018 Level Design Workshop on Tuesday, March 20th, a handful of the speakers wanted to warm up by chatting (via email) about some of the finer points of level design.  ...

At the 21st DICE Awards in Las Vegas on Thursday night, Nintendo's The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild won game of the year, in addition to three other awards. ...

Organizers of GDC and the Game Narrative Summit are happy to announce the 2018 Student Narrative Analysis Competition winners, who all receive passes to this year's March conference. ...

Living Orb, a manipulatable ball of LEDs, offers players a variety of games to play with light and rotation, as well as opportunities for other devs to make their own games from it. ...

Wilmot's Warehouse tasks players with organizing stock in a warehouse, drawing upon that a strangely compelling desire to arrange objects. ...