Valve has launched a handful of end-of-year lists (and corresponding sales) that offer fellow game devs a peek at what games performed best on the digital storefront across a variety of categories. ...

Developer Micah McGonigal talks about the design and development of his edutainment horror game Baldi's Basics, in the process reminding us how weird and messed up old edutainment games could be. ...

The achievements we saw from game developers, from indie to triple-A, were incredible. Here are the game developers that left an indelible mark on 2018, and pushed the art of game development forward. ...

This week's highlights include a multitude of 'best of' lists of the top games of the year - from video through group round-ups to individual highlights. ...

The folks Discord snuck in here today at the end of 2018 to announce they've raised $150 million in another round of funding led by Greenoaks Capital.  ...

Game devs Chris Avellone, Obsidian's Carrie Patel, and Guerrilla's Dan Calvert chat with Gamasutra about how they and their teams write and design characters -- from start to finish. ...

From mechs to dinos to a derelict ship, Gamasutra editor-in-chief Kris Graft lays out his top games of 2018. ...

Using examples from Sky, a game of "connection & altruism", thatgamecompany's Jennie Kong will present the studio's unique re-iterative method to finding emotional engines for story/player narrative. ...

Here are the 5 games (yes, only 5) I played in 2018 that were actually released this year and not from either 1998 or 2016. ...

Gamasutra speaks with a medical professional and a handful of devs about their personal stories of burnout, and how, as an industry, we can better prevent the awful practices that lead to it. ...