"At first, it looked like a normal fluctuation...By Monday morning, most of them lost from 80% to 90% of new organic traffic. They are now all in the same boat, that is about to sink." ...

Amy Hennig has departed Electronic Arts, telling Eurogamer that she officially left the company (and her role as creative director on EA Vancouver's unnamed Star Wars game) in January. ...

"There's going to be more people doing this kind of thing going forward because it removes some of the technical risk," Bithell says after making first Subsurface, then Quarantine Circular. ...

"We have a significant global focus on driving our digital business...independent games are a critical part of that," Fils-Aime told Waypoint. "We continue to look at other ways to enhance curation." ...

In this GDC 2018 talk, Asymmetric's Zack Johnson, creative director of acclaimed slap-stick-figure cowboy RPG West of Loathing, discusses the team's approach to comedy in video games. ...

In an interview with Forbes posted earlier today, Shedworks' Gregorios Kythreotis discusses the aesthetic design of Sable, an upcoming open world exploration game set in a stylized desert.  ...

"To make up for the lack of bandwidth and still deliver on quality, we had to find a pipeline that could give us great looking pixel art, without having to hand draw each and every retake." ...

What do your prototypes (failed or otherwise) look like? That was the question posed by Vlambeer's Rami Ismail on Twitter Friday, and devs' answers make for illuminating (and entertaining) reading. ...

As SGDQ kicks off its yearly charity speedrunning marathon, take a look at these tips from the Spelunky, Shovel Knight, Crypt of the Necrodancer, and Axiom Verge devs on making speedrunable games. ...

Yoku's Island Express dev Linus Larsson speaks to how Villa Gorilla wound up merging pinball with platforming elements, how they iterated on the idea, and what challenges they faced along the way. ...