Even with 24 game-related categories, it still feels like The Game Awards could use a few more. We imagined what five new ones would look like.

Here's the beef: The Game Awards published its list of nominations for the year, and Dave the Diver appears in the Best Independent Game category. Dave the Diver is a brilliant game—we gave it a ...

Instead, I categorize games by how they fit into my life. I play action games, RPGs, puzzle games, adventure games, and games from pretty much every other genre.

With Game IQ, App Annie will put each game into a category that includes a genre (such as role-playing games), a subgenre (like action RPGs), and modifier tags (such as casual, hardcore, or art ...

Games For Change is a different kind of video game festival, ... Of course, I’ve often thought that the language we use to categorize games is problematic. After all, ...

For example, a game with a match-3 core and character development meta features would go under the ‘Puzzle RPG’ Subgenre. The Subgenre is then automatically assigned to a Genre, which is in turn ...