The long-running Nordic Game Awards took place this week in Sweden, and Playdead stood out among the nominees by taking home Game of the Year and a few other awards for its 2016 game Inside. ...

Richard Knol once wrote software for golf courses. Now he's a full-time indie with a game on Steam (Sailaway), and in a chat today with Gamasutra he opens up about how (and why) he made the switch. ...

Sailaway dev Richard Knol is an avid sailor, and he's agreed to join us on Twitch today at 12 PM Pacific/ 3 PM Eastern to chat about his work on the game as we play and try not to sink any boats. ...

Outlast 2 comes alive when players are being chased through the dark game world. "It has to feel chaotic, yet intuitive. When you make it too obvious, some players start to feel they're on a track." ...

Outlast 2 comes alive when players are being chased through the dark game world. "It has to feel chaotic, yet intuitive. When you make it too obvious, some players start to feel they're on a track." ...

As part of GDC 2017's Board Game Design Day, dev Mike Boxleiter offers a postmortem look at his work co-designing Secret Hitler, a Kickstarted tabletop game with some interesting social mechanics. ...

Aquiris Game Studio acquired the rights to the browser FTP title Ballistic, and decided to revamp it as a premium game. ...

"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. ...

As part of its ongoing efforts to revamp Steam, Valve today outlined how the platform's Trading Cards system will be withheld from games until they reach a certain "confidence metric." ...

At GDC 2017, audio wizards Akash Thakkar and Rich Vreeland (aka Disasterpeace) opened up about how they found the right soundscape for Hyper Light over the course of 3 years and countless revisions. ...