The Duskbloods, FromSoftware’s upcoming Nintendo Switch 2 experiment, is a strange multiplayer experience that just might ...
Balatro picks up the top prize at the 2025 Game Developers Choice Awards. Balatro was the big winner at the 25th annual GDC Awards. The roguelike deck builder developed by LocalThunk secured four ...
Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 has been named Game of the Year at the 26th annual Game Developers Choice Awards, taking home five awards during the ceremony held at the 2026 GDC Festival of Gaming. The ...
An injection of mayhem makes Mario Golf: Super Rush the best Nintendo golfing game in more than a generation. It’s not unusual for sports sims – however realistic they purport to be – to speed up the ...
Consume Me wins the Grand Prize at the 27th annual Independent Games Festival (IGF) Awards. The IGF awards, held as part of the 2025 Game Developers Conference, celebrated the most innovative and ...
The passing of hardware designer Hideki Sato has made me reflect on how the Sega Master System shaped the way I enjoy video games, and on a friendship I made along the way. My childhood was framed by ...
This week in Speech Check, our semi-regular mini-series on the most memorable speeches in video games, Peter takes us to Stalingrad via Call of Duty: Finest Hour. Welcome to the greatest moment of ...
At GDC 2025, Star Wars Outlaws composer Wilbert Roget delivered a fascinating talk on the game’s bold reimagining of the franchise’s musical soundscape. “Star Wars Outlaws at its core is a heist story ...
In their GDC 2023 talk, Dinosaur Polo Club’s Tana Tanoi spoke about the importance of Wuselfaktor (and other design factors) in Mini Metro and Mini Motorways. New Zealand-based Dinosaur Polo Club has ...
As befits the genre, our mystery begins with our detective’s peace shattered by a ringing telephone – a call from their supervisor, and a new case to investigate. But what animal would a detective be?
What happens when you bring experimental theatre into a sci-fi video game? In an insightful talk at GDC 2025, Remy Siu, founder and creative director of Sunset Visitor, revealed how the story of ...
Clap Hanz’s special brand of golf makes its long overdue Nintendo debut with Easy Come, Easy Golf on Nintendo Switch. Has it been worth the wait? First up, a disclaimer: Yes, I am aware that Easy Come ...