"Is HTML5 capable of branching out into our living rooms? To sit alongside Master Chief, Mario, and Sonic, providing gameplay snacks whilst that latest patch for your favorite game is downloading?" ...

Stanford is publicly sharing videos from its Interactive Media & Games Summit, an ongoing series of open lectures on how games intersect with art, healthcare, education and other aspects of society. ...

Axiom Verge developer Tom Happ digs into how and why he went about designing his game as a love letter to the genre pioneered by Super Metroid, and what room remains for other designers to explore. ...

Facts and figures about developing for the popular smartwatch and the state of its games ecosystem, and a look at the creation of RPG PebbleQuest, a "labor of love." ...

Bitsummit, the leading independent game development festival in Japan, returns this year in Kyoto on July 11th and 12th. ...

In the guise of "legal spring cleaning," attorney Zachary Strebeck offers a list of suggestions of things you ought to be sure to take care of, as an independent developer. ...

"Overall, it was a great experience for us. It was a great team building exercise for us. It helped us get a better feel for working together more closely and during a deadline." ...

This in-depth postmortem tackles the new remake of Gabriel Knight: "we wanted to make sure we did it right -- that this game got the love, attention and hard work it richly deserved." ...

California's Costa Mesa-based indie outfit Shield Break Studios is looking for an engineer skilled in C++ to help with server development of their inaugural game Bierzerkers. ...

Developer Matthew S. Burns has written a Twine game about writing for big-budget games that sheds light on what it might feel like to be in the narrative hotseat during a AAA game design meeting. ...