In most multiplayer video games, you're on equal footing with your opponents. You're on the same map, with the same moves and tools, and the more skilled player will theoretically win. That isn't the case with Spy Party, a two-player game where each player's role couldn't be more different.

I played several different games at the Game Developers Conference last week, but I only ate one of them.

The Alt.Ctrl.GDC exhibit at Game Developers Conference shows off a selection of games that use wild, weird, sometimes gigantic control schemes. Nathan Grayson and I took a tour of the booth last week, which all culminated in me getting inside an actual coffin. Well, an IKEA dresser on its side painted black. But still.

Recently, in a small room inside the massive Moscone Center meeting complex, roughly 200 people crowded around a large table to conduct a challenging conversation about working in the video game industry. There was a single microphone, chauffeured from person to person by a sprinting staffer working the Game Developers Conference, which is running in San Francisco. Most people began talking before the mic got to them. Raucous banging, presumably from construction nearby, drowned out many attendees' comments.

PixelJunk Monsters 2, the sequel to Q-Games' 2008 tower defence game, is coming May 25 to PlayStation 4, Steam and Switch - and it looks gorgeous.

The puzzles in The Room series are equal parts captivating and haunting, but they have just one problem: you can't use them to kill anybody after you've solved them. The Bard's Tale IV takes its inspiration from The Room, but with weapons instead of rooms.

At the Game Developers Conference in San Francisco, Jason Schreier and I sat down with Aaryn Flynn, formerly of BioWare, to talk about his time working under EA on games like Dragon Age: Inquisition and Anthem.

The backstory of Sonic the Hedgehog used to involve a fighter pilot with Sonic painted on the nose of his plane, the game's designers said today.

Nintendo's latest Zelda adventure followed up its win at the 2017 Game Awards with GOTY honours at tonight's Game Developers Choice Awards, held as part of the 2018 Game Developers Conference.

"You're a rabbit now; you're a kid now" doesn't have quite the same ring to it, but Splatoon almost went there. Nintendo's stylish shooter once starred bunnies, and before that, tofu blocks.

Here at the Game Developer's Conference in San Francisco, there's an increasing momentum for the action that game developers have whispered about for decades: Unionisation.

Players of indie games on Switch are driven in great part by "nostalgia," Nintendo said today at a Game Developers Conference event at which it revealed the top 10 best-selling Switch indie games, a list that includes Celeste, Stardew Valley, and Shovel Knight.