Hey folks: It’s that time once again, as we do our dangedest here at The A.V. Club to give you a quick heads-up…

People are still mourning the death of Satoru Iwata, president of Nintendo, who died last year at 55. Iwata started…

Coming right on the heels of Brenda Braithwaite’s talk on Train—a board game about the holocaust that has brought…

Independent game developer Jason Rohrer (Passage, Between) is best known as a leading maker of art games: games that…

If the less-is-more approach to game design had a poster child, it could very well be Irish developer Terry…

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Adventure games aren’t dead, they’re just adapting. Sure, the golden era of the point-and-click quest has given way…

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Chris Avellone came into the games industry writing pen-and-pencil role-playing games. An opportunity in the late…

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David Wolinsky and I are in San Francisco this week for the Game Developers Conference or, as it is known by those…

The pointless, dusty debate about whether games can be considered art tends to rage more among people peering inside…

One of the most compelling talks at GDC was Crayon Physics Deluxe creator Petri Purho's look back at the making of…

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John Teti:Four out of six isn’t bad. After making my predictions for the Independent Games Festival award winners in…

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One of the show organizers noted before a talk this morning that 11 of the 19 sessions on the Independent…

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