With inventive combat, a memorable characters, and a gloriously strange setting, Pragmata gives Capcom a bold and brilliant ...

At GDC, Kate Edwards revealed how meticulous research and cultural rigour helped shape Indiana Jones and the Great Circle.

At GDC Festival of Gaming, PlayStation Studios Creative revealed how it built a flexible brand system for Horizon.

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 ...

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 ...

Sekiro: Shadows Die Twice, Control, and Disco Elysium are among the big winners at The Game Awards 2019. 2019 might not feel like a vintage year in gaming – more of a 2014 than a 2017 – but The Game ...

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 ...

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 ...

Do you want to replay a mission or level in Lego Star Wars: The Skywalker Saga? Here’s how you do it. Lego Star Wars: The Skywalker Saga is a big game. A really big game. It features an eye-watering ...

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, ...

Doom Eternal? More like… no, actually, “eternal” pretty much covers it. At the beginning of the Doom (2016) reboot, Doomguy wakes up in a tomb. He’s being prodded and poked by demons, which he’s ...

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 ...