This week's roundup includes a Panzer Dragoon series classic postmortem, impressions of the eagerly awaited Heaven's Vault, as well as secret MMO servers, homebrew Game Boy Games & the return of D& D. ...

"While debugging is considered to be one of the more odious aspects of programming, I felt that under the right circumstances, it could actually be exhilarating," says AP Thompson, designer of Beglitched. ...

It wasn't until columnist Katherine Cross fell into a hole that she truly understood the genius of Astroneer. ...

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.  ...