The Nintendo Switch became Shovel Knight's third best selling platform, selling 370,000 units in just a year and generating the most revenue. ...

The Nintendo Switch became Shovel Knight's third best selling platform, selling 370,000 units in just a year and generating the most revenue. ...

A roundtable interview on writing romance, featuring Samantha Wallschlaeger (Guild Wars 2, ME: Andromeda), Ben Gelinas (Dragon Age, Mass Effect), Ed Sibley (Love Island) & Jared Rosen (Dream Daddy). ...

A roundtable interview on writing romance, featuring Samantha Wallschlaeger (Guild Wars 2, ME: Andromeda), Ben Gelinas (Dragon Age, Mass Effect), Ed Sibley (Love Island) & Jared Rosen (Dream Daddy). ...

"It should seep in by osmosis, minimize the amount you take the player away from the gameplay," says game designer Brian Reynolds in a PCGamer feature about how devs write good flavor text in games. ...

At GDC 2018 game designer Jennifer Scheurle showcases some of her favorite examples of the ways games "trick" players, cherry-picking from the tricks and secrets she got from fellow devs. ...

Game develoer John Krajewski pens a fascinating blog post about how the creation and growth of an economy as a tool for achieving your goals forms the backbone of multiplayer play in his game Eco. ...

Vlambeer's Rami Ismail posed a fun question on Twitter this morning: "What is your favorite or most surprising "hack" solution to a game development problem you've personally used or implemented?" ...

The team is looking to offer grants of up to $20,000 to three to six designers from traditionally underrepresented groups. ...

Game dev Soren Johnson (Offworld Trading Company) writes about why it's important for game makers to understand what their work inherits from the past. ...