Creative director Derek Bradley opens up about the design of A44's remarkable Soulslike Ashen, and discusses how subtle art and design choices set it apart from the bleak worlds of From Software. ...

Enjoy this unique behind-the-scenes look at how inkle developed a whole ancient language (the 'Guitar Hero of linguistics') to be deciphered by players in the studio's new game Heaven's Vault. ...

"It's the layering that makes intense decisions. In Oxygen Not Included, the player must balance all the needs of their Duplicants simultaneously. Each need is not so difficult, but it's easy to let something slip." ...

This week's roundup includes intriguing debuts from Falcon Age and Vacation Simulator, a historical tour of The Division's New York, the trickiness of marketing your weed tycoon game & more. ...

"If everyone doesn†™t take the game so seriously we can have a lot more fun with it and do more," says Landfall's Petter Henriksson of the studio's penchant for weird physics in this in-depth chat. ...

Hero-U: Rogue to Redemption, from the creators of Quest for Glory, saw hard-fought successes as well as tough-to-swallow shortfalls. Here's the dev team on what went right, and what went wrong. ...

Digital Sun†™s 2-in-one shop management sim and dungeon crawler Moonlighter has sold over 500,000 copies across all platforms.  ...

Heart Machine is after someone who can catch and address problems quickly and effectively, can communicate with anyone on the team to get results, and has a deep understanding of our production process. ...

"We want it to feel like you could almost reach into the rooms and touch things, but maybe also wonder whether you should," says Little Nightmare's's senior narrative designer Dave Mervik. ...

In this rich excerpt from "Procedural Storytelling in Game Design," developer and proc-gen expert Darius Kazemi shares some ways to use procedural generation more effectively in game development. ...