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

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, ...

Organisers of the 25th Annual Game Developers Choice Awards have confirmed this year’s list of finalists. The awards celebrate the achievements of game developers across a diverse mix of genres and ...

In a retrospective at GDC 2023, former Blue Fang Games president Hank Howie looked back on the development of Zoo Tycoon. Zoo Tycoon is a 2001 simulation game developed by Blue Fang Games and ...

Tunic, Betrayal At Club Low, and Neon White are among the games nominated at this year’s IGF awards. The narrative goes that 2022 wasn’t a banner year for games. This year’s list of Independent Games ...

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 ...

Aliens: Fireteam Elite might seem like an IP cash grab, but this co-op shooter has a lot more tucked under the hood than you’d expect. It’s personal preference, but the Alien franchise for me has ...

We could argue until the cows come home about which one is the best Super Mario Bros. game. The games are all so good in their own way that you could make a logical and well-reasoned argument for ...

From Bad North to Captain Toad, from Townscaper to Tunic – why do video games make the best dioramas? It might surprise our American readers, but we don’t really make dioramas at school in the UK. We ...

The fourth instalment in the Grid series is here. Confusingly, it’s just called Grid. But is Grid any good? Gird your loins. On-boarding is a tricky thing in racing games. There tend to be two main ...

Reading about artists is a tricky business, especially when they have seen fit to write about themselves. For one thing, you are always nagged by the suspicion that a better relief can be gleaned by ...

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 ...