The post-pandemic landscape hasn’t been kind to video game conferences. While global giants rethink their futures, MIGS is ...

Pokémon Legends: Z-A swaps open fields for urban sprawl and structured ambition. A satisfying gameplay loop and some bold new ideas go a long way toward offsetting its shortcomings. It’s not as strong ...

Elden Ring takes home Game of the Year at the 23rd annual GDC Awards. The 2023 Game Developers Choice Awards saw some of last year’s biggest games recognised for their achievements in front of an ...

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 ...

Cocoon, A Highland Song, and Venba lead the nominations at this year’s Independent Games Festival awards. At Thumbsticks, we don’t focus much on news these days. However, we always appreciate the work ...

Hope is a dangerous thing in football, but for once, Nintendo players might be right to feel it. We go again. We know what we’re getting. We know it’ll be more of an evolution than a revolution. 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 ...

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

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, ...

Baldur’s Gate 3 and Venba triumph at the 2024 Game Developers Choice and Independent Games Festival Awards. If Geoff Keighley’s tedious exploits at The Game Awards leave you cold, this year’s Game ...

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 ...

Betrayal At Club Low wins the Seumas McNally Grand Prize at this year’s IGF awards. It was another vintage year for the Independent Games Festival, with the likes of Tunic, Citizen Sleeper, and Neon ...