GDC Festival of Gaming

Five new Steam games you probably missed (March 9, 2026)

Sorting through every new game on Steam so you don't have to.

McDonald’s CEO Should Leave Burger Enjoying To The Professionals

No one’s making you do this Chris Kempczinski. Isn’t this what Ronald is for?

The best CRPG docuseries on YouTube just covered Ultima 8 with a 3-hour retrospective

The wacky adventures of Lord British continue.

Hytale lead says they're pushing for modding in part because they 'hire from the community': 'We're building a scrappy, agile team full of people who actually make things'

"It makes the game bigger than the studio. It helps us discover talent."

Take AI’s Job And Respond To Real Prompts In New Browser Game

Generate your own haphazard and hastily sourced advice in your ai slop bores me

Microsoft Shoots Down Viral ‘Blank Check’ Rumor About The Future Of Xbox

A town hall between Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella and Xbox CEO Asha Sharma sparked speculation about the amorphous next-gen Xbox

One coder's 'winter madness project' was making the Dreamcast-era cityscapes of Crazy Taxi explorable in our browsers

Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah!

Slay the Spire 2 dev says its Marathon joke turned out 'a bit meaner than expected' in hindsight: 'To be fair I didn't think we'd actually pass Marathon in concurrent users'

"It wasn't supposed to be shade, we were being sarcastic 😭."

TMNT cards made my Cloud Strife Commander decklist even better

A Cloud Strife Commander deck gets a surprising boost from Magic’s TMNT and Lorwyn Eclipsed cards, creating a chaotic five-color warrior strategy.

CEO of Kitfox Games reckons hundreds of hours playing Civilization could be the secret to the Dwarf Fortress publisher's success: 'Maybe Kitfox wouldn't be as successful if I didn't know how to alternate between science trees and army defences'

Tanya X. Short, the designer of Boyfriend Dungeon and the upcoming Streets of Fortuna, talks TR-49 and surviving the pandemic with Tabletop Simulator.

The Black Pirate, a 100-year-old pirate adventure that kicks ass, is streaming free all over the internet

Douglas Fairbanks plays a pretend pirate in this enduring classic that helps explain why Hollywood can't quite pirates

Tell me: What's the worst videogame song you've ever had to listen to?

And why is it Mansion basement?