Gamasutra contributor Katherine Cross offers a thoughtful look at how writer Amber Scott succeeded in portraying an authentic transgender character in Beamdog's Baldur's Gate: Siege of Dragonspear. ...

We asked developers what their favorite comments they'd seen in game or engine codes. The results may make you go check what your programmers have left behind. ...

Fun Bits offers up 2 $1,000 scholarship grants to any high school students graduating this year in Mississippi who identify as LGBT and seek to pursue a college education in art or video game design. ...

"We've done four large conventions, including two PAX, a ComicCon and a TwitchCon. We've learned a thing or two we'd like to share with other indie game studios." ...

"As a general rule, only show the best about your game. I know how great it is to have lots of content, but if you have to choose, do not hesitate to go for quality over quantity." ...

"Clearly composers feel that free music harms their chances at getting paid work, but from my experience, most funded small devs and upward will always pay for exclusive music." ...

"There are certain things we can't tell you or just don't want to tell you," says lead designer Alex Preston. "We want to show you, and we want to make you learn, so you can feel accomplished."  ...

The Chinese Room's moody adventure game Everybody's Gone to the Rapture wowed the judges, as Her Story, from Sam Barlow, continued to rack up wins in this award season. ...

The long-running iD Tech series of scholastic summer camps for kids has teamed up with veteran developer Psyonix to incorporate its surprise 2015 hit Rocket League into iD Tech's educational programs. ...

While the lion's share of the games on YouTube's list of the top 10 trending games of March are brand-new releases, the #2 title, Mortal Kombat X, is over a year old -- but invigorated with fresh DLC. ...