Since artist Scott DeWitt couldn't join the rest of the Extra Credits crew for PAX 2015, he animated a short, educational video about how the show gets made and what it's like being an artist for EC.

After nine years, Microsoft has decided to call time on its Xbox Live Indie Games service. In an email to developers, the company says it has begun "the sunsetting process" for the program, which encourages anyone without a studio or dedicated business to create games for the Xbox 360, by locking down new signups ahead of a late-2017 shutdown. What does that mean for you? Well, developers have been told they have exactly a year to get their games ready for publishing.

The Humble Mozilla Bundle focuses on Indie games, the fastest growing games category. These range from new titles like Democracy 3 to some of the most popular indie titles from short (FTL) to long (AaaaaAAaaaAAAaaAAAAaAAAAA!!! for the Awesome). All make use of Mozilla-pioneered asm.js and the other powerful technologies that make plugin-free gaming possible on the Web, allowing users to jump right into the action from just clicking a link.

Valve has announced they’re killing off the typically abused or forlorn service, Steam Greenlight. Its replacement is known as Steam...

A few months after Valve officially launched Steam for Linux in 2013, Gabe Newell gave his LinuxCon keynote crowd a bit of music for their ears. "It feels a little bit funny coming here and telling you guys that Linux and open source are the future of gaming," the Valve head-man said. "It's sort of like going to Rome and teaching Catholicism to the pope."

LiquidSky, the cloud gaming service we reported on previously, is now in open beta; if you'd like to try it out, you can do so now. In case you're new to the notion of a cloud gaming service, what you should know is that it allows you to stream games to your computer that are being run on a server elsewhere- in this case, a gaming PC. If you don't have a computer with enough RAM or a good enough GPU to run the latest games, you can use LiquidSky instead- assuming, of course, that your Internet connection is reliable.

Twitch is now rolling out support for 1080p/60fps streams, the platform announced on its blog. To stream at 1080p/60 you're going to need to be able to sustain a bitrate up towards 6 megabits, though quality will depend on the game being streamed. The previous 3.5 megabit ingest bitrate limit has been lifted. Furthermore, viewers will also have lots more quality options available to them, ensuring they get the best viewing experience possible.

The Jackbox Party Pack 3 is coming to the Nintendo Switch eShop on April 13th.We know this because it’s now listed as “coming soon” on the Australian eShop with a price of $32.27AUD. The pack itself contains the games Quiplash 2, Trivia Murder Party, Guesspionage, Tee K.O. and Fakin’ it. The game is already available on Steam – the trailer for that version is shown above. Let us know if you’ll be investing in this one when it eventually goes live on the eShop.

Another title has joined the ever expanding Xbox Backward Compatibility program. Far Cry 3 is now available to play on the Xbox One.

Experience’s May 2016-announced Xbox One title Yomi wo Saku Hana, which was previously set for a spring 2017 release in Japan, has been delayed to 2018 and its genre has been changed to a dungeon RPG, the company announced. The game was previously planned to be of a different genre than dungeon RPG—which Experience is known for—that would incorporate hack-and-slash-style gameplay, but after various trial and error, the studio revised their development setup and restarted the project as a dungeon RPG.

From the makers of the acclaimed hit game Destiny, comes the much-anticipated sequel. An action shooter that takes you on an epic journey across the solar system. Humanity’s last safe city has fallen to an overwhelming invasion force led by Ghaul, the imposing commander of the brutal Red Legion. He has stripped the city’s Guardians of their power, and forced the survivors to flee. You will venture to mysterious, unexplored worlds of our solar system to discover an arsenal of weapons and devastating new combat abilities.

The community of players on Reddit's popular For Honor section are organizing to show their displeasure about the current state of the game. If you share their sentiments about poor communication from the developers, or are just really pissed off about how overpowered Peacekeepers are, you can join their protest by refusing to play for a day. The blackout, proposed by user jbaayoun and now sitting pretty at the top of the subreddit, is set to begin Monday...

HAL Laboratory isn’t traditionally associated with working directly on Nintendo hardware. Fans are likely more aware of the company for having worked on the Kirby and Smash Bros. franchises, among many other titles. For Switch though, HAL was directly involved with the hardware’s creation. They developed the following parts of the system...

Starv.io is a survival stimulation game like Don't Starve. Survive the cold and hunger by collecting resources, crafting items, planting seeds and cooperating with other players!

The Fall was an intriguing title on Wii U, overcoming some flaws thanks to its creativity and spin on sci-fi storytelling tropes. It was good news, then, when developer Over The Moon confirmed that the sequel – The Fall Part 2: Unbound – would still come to Wii U in 2017. Unfortunately that version is no longer on the way, with the title now coming to the Nintendo Switch and other platforms with a Q3 release window. There’s also a new story trailer that also provides a good look at the game.

Despite Gears of War 4 was launched last October in the West, the game of The Coalition has not yet been released in Japan, because of some problems with the system of rating of the contents in the land of the rising sun. For some people it will be hard to believe, but Gears of War 4 was never published in Japan probably due to violent content, in excess reputed by the Japanese rating, and even the previous chapters of the saga had been made available only after heavy censorship cuts.

The stars have called you for millennia and now you walk among them. A universe of possibilities is open to your species as it takes its first fitful steps into the great unknown. Here you can turn your back on the divisive politics of the home planet. Here you can build something new.

Digital Foundry has the specs, has seen it running, and has talked to the people who built it.

Nvidia updates its top-of-the-line Titan graphics card yearly, so it's only natural the Titan Xp got announced Thursday.

You may have heard of White Paper Games; they're a small England-based game studio responsible for the adventure Ether One, which was a gorgeous first person game about restoring the memories of a dementia patient. In their new game, The Occupation, you play as a journalist and whistleblower in England during the 1980s; in the wake of a terrorist attack, a new law- The Union Act- has been drafted, and it seems as though it will curtail the civil liberties of the population in exchange for a measure of safety. As a journalist, it's your job to report on it- what will be your narrative? That's for you to decide in The Occupation.