Yoshi and the Mysterious Book is a storybook platformer built on pure curiosity, and one of the most rewarding games on ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Held as part of the 2026 GDC Festival of Gaming in San Francisco, the IGF Awards celebrates the most innovative and exciting independent games of the past year. The night’s top honour, the Seumas ...

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 ...

One of the greatest tricks Valve – erstwhile video game developer, now mostly minding its enormous digital storefront – ever pulled was making the Black Mesa Research Facility, in 1998’s Half-Life, ...

Metroid Prime 4 evolves a classic formula into something bigger, stranger, and more ambitious, but does it hold together? This is a difficult game for me to review. The original Metroid Prime is one ...

Do You Remember… is our regular retrospective. This week, it’s shape-shifting platformer Psycho Fox, released for Sega Master System in 1989. There have been, to my reckoning, a disproportionate ...

Heading to GDC 2025? Here are our top picks from a packed lineup of panels, talks, and tutorials. The Game Developers Conference (GDC) returns to the Moscone Center in San Francisco next week, ...

From the initial glimpse in the Nintendo Switch 2 reveal trailer, Star Wars Outlaws appeared to be an ambitious and somewhat unlikely port. On one hand, it was exciting to see Ubisoft showcasing its ...

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 ...