The 25th annual Game Developers Choice Awards (GDCA), taking place at GDC 2025, will recognize two influential figures in the game development world. Sam Lake, best known for shaping the narrative universe of Alan Wake and Control, will receive this year’s Lifetime Achievement Award.…
In an industry where bigger often seems better, Astro Bot director Nicolas Doucet offered a different perspective at GDC 2025: “It’s okay to make a small game.” Speaking to a packed audience during his talk “The Making of Astro Bot,”…
As game remakes continue to divide opinion among players, developers are often caught in a delicate balancing act—staying faithful to classics while adapting them to modern standards. At GDC 2025, Bloober Team’s senior level designer, Anna Oporska-Szybisz, shed light on how…
IGF-nominated indie title dives into the complicated, often painful relationship between food, control, and growing up.Consume Me, a finalist at the 2025 Independent Games Festival (IGF), is not your average minigame collection. Blending intimate storytelling with experimental design, the game…
Silverstring Media takes on attention-hungry design with a gentler, more intentional twistThe team at Silverstring Media, known for Glitchhikers, is taking on one of mobile gaming’s most entrenched genres: the idle game. Their latest project, Greenheart Necromancer, is an unconventional…
