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Silent Hill: Shattered Memories is "a weird-ass postmodern riff" on the PS1 original says Sam Barlow, talking the development 15 years later

"Sony would also turn to Mercury for all their tech demos for publishers": Jeb Mayers talks us through the creation of the portable puzzler

"Part of the genesis of Immortality was the three years I spent making a Legacy Of Kain game that got cancelled": Sam Barlow on the making of his "interactive movie"

Goal Oriented: How do developers invent their own sports – even when they're not too fond of the real thing?

BioShock Infinite “may not have been the thing I wanted, but that doesn’t necessarily mean it wasn’t the thing the audience wanted”: Ken Levine guides us through his entire gameography

The Making of Baldur's Gate 3: "We really wanted to make it so that even if you don't know D&D or Baldur's Gate, you would still have exciting choices as a player"

AAA – Developers discuss the three little letters that have shaped an industry: "It's a stupid term. It's meaningless"

"At the time survival horror was changing. 'How action-oriented do we get?'": 16 years on, Tomm Hulett reflects on Silent Hill: Homecoming

Over 20 years on, Tomb Raider: The Angel of Darkness devs talk Lara Croft's PS2 debut: "The pressure was on to create something new and visionary"

30 years on, developers reflect on Super Metroid's impact: "Like Zelda and Mario, there is almost nothing else out there like it in tone. Still to this day, even"

Indie devs discuss why low-poly works so well for horror: "I actually think those limitations encourage weird, unique compromises"

Swery65 discusses Hotel Barcelona, his "accidental" collaboration with friend Suda51

"We would look at all the American RPGs and the JRPGs at the time and just go, 'Right, if they're doing it, we're not": Peter Molyneux and John McCormack talk the development of Fable 20 years on

26 years on, developers discuss the massive impact Metal Gear Solid had on the industry: "This was going much further than all previous action games. And that was totally inspiring"

7 years on, Agent 47’s attempt to contain a deadly virus in Patient Zero brings the classic Hitman stealth action to an unmatched fever pitch

"The PSP was one of the first machines that had the hardware to allow you to play 'proper console games' on the go": Developers celebrate 20 years of Sony's handheld

26 years later, Codemasters' Chris Southall talks Colin McRae Rally: "We wanted to do something that was an authentic rally experience for the hardware of the time"