The ambitious new Sub-Q aims to create a brand new venue for interactive fiction and the players who love it. Fans believe the form is going mainstream in a big way, and there are ever more ways for you—yes, you!—to take part.

Level design is its own kind of playful art: part theatre and part architecture, you're making spaces to challenge and delight other people.

A team experienced at eerie, atmospheric sci fi is developing a new visual novel with amazing illustrations and a diverse crew.

The musical references of this year's most daunting commercial video game are resonating in surprising and brilliant ways.

Anna Anthropy's "sequel to dys4ia" sheds light on the conflicting aftermath of the "empathy games" boom, and the fact so many celebrated creators are still alone and afraid.

Your revolver is like a trusty assistant. I mean, it is your assistant, and his name is Mr. Smith Wesson.

It really does feel like a book come to life: With playful music, the crunch of snow and pretty, modern animal illustrations, you tilt and shake the device to interact gently with the stories and characters on all sides of you.

Last week on Offworld saw us interrogate the millennial tech panic, play games about the Renaissance, watch a couple documentaries and collect Nicki Minaj fanart.

After a large-scale commercial project abruptly ended, veterans of Spec Ops: The Line studio Yager Interactive decided to make a small jam game about grief and loss.

A nonprofit devoted to advocating for accessibility in video games is now offering a generous fellowship to eligible design students.

Your wealthy father and brother have been killed by distasteful schemers, and now you're to be married off to one of them. Can you plan your brutal revenge without arousing suspicion—while acting like a perfect courtly lady?

In A Heart Between Parts, your first act as a player is to unsnip the thread that sews your lips shut. Some scientist tried to make himself a wife and… Read the rest of the article: You're a laboratory mistake. Can anybody love you?

Gamification is easy for people to get excited about. Enjoy this dark, witty video instead.

It's part twin-stick shooter, part musical exploration game, and it looks lovely.

Don't miss this cool vaporwave game about the end of the "hanging at the mall" consumerist heyday.

Make sure the legendary sasquach never really appears on film in this sweet "reverse stealth" minigame.

I can't survive the fist. I don't know if I've killed the children. Help me out with this one.

Here are some pictures of tumors, colonoscopy and viscera for reference. Enjoy your next two years of work!

Eff it up hardcore in this all-girl project from New York.

Computer Solitaire is among the most-played games in the world, so you wouldn't think there's much to refresh, but prolific designer Zach Gage has a brand new idea about a near-universal experience.