There were plenty of party and local co-op games from developers all around the globe last year. But few were as impressive as Keep Talking and Nobody Explodes, a co-operative experience where one person stares at a bomb and their friends pour over a defusal manual to help them out.

It's the kind of game that's great for people who don't play games, because there's barely any barrier for entry. But as it turns out, that audience of non-gamers turned out to be a big market for the developers.

Turns out, it's never too late to do the right thing.

One of the coolest things Kirk Hamilton and I saw at the 2016 Game Developers Conference was Mike Lazer-Walker's game Hello, Operator, which uses a real switchboard that he bought on eBay and turned into a game.

I found this game Anamorphine at a Microsoft press event on Tuesday during GDC. It's trippy, pretty and it's got some very cool scene transitions. We all know how much I love cool scene transitions.

It's easy as an outside observer to look at the success of Team Meat's Super Meat Boy and The Binding of Isaac and think the guys behind it have a handle on their abilities and experience. But that wasn't the case for programmer Tommy Refenes, who recently spoke about "Impostor syndrome" and the effect it had on his way of thinking.

Destiny has a hell of a user interface. It's nice to look at, but like many things in Destiny it's also nice to use. Just like any part of any finished video game, it went through a lot of rough drafts to get to where it is now.

We asked one question to the winning game developers at last night's Game Developers Choice and Independent Games Festival awards: "What is the one game that inspired you to go into the creation of video games?" Here's what they said.

Services that sell game-breaking cheats are no secret; many multiplayer games, from Counter-Strike to GTA V, have their share of dishonest players. And, as it turns out, the people providing these cheats are rolling in the dough.

Video: Today the Game Developers Conference in San Francisco, both the IGF (Independent Games Festival) and Game Developers Choice Awards are being held. If you want to watch them live, you can do that right here.

First impression in a room full of people playing virtual reality games: these people look goofy, and the games they're playing look dull. Then you put on the headset.

Elsinore is a game where you play as Ophelia from Shakespeare's Hamlet. She's stuck in a time loop, a la Groundhog Day or Legend of Zelda: Majora's Mask. Her goal? To prevent Hamlet, a Shakespearean tragedy so tragic that it borders on ludicrous, from ending tragically.

Twitch, long a service for people watching video games, is getting more active in the process of making them, teaming up with a number of studios to help develop titles built with streaming as part of the game.