Following the release of Spirittea, the Stardew Valley meets Spirited Away management sim, a publisher’s comments have attracted controversy after criticizing the game’s lack of YouTube coverage after refusing to pay promoters and influencers. Despite its modest success in achieving 1 million sales within its first week, No More Robots publisher Mike Rose’s Twitter tweet […]
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For struggling studios and game devs needing financial support, six organizations have banded together to raise money for industry specialists affected by 2023’s catastrophic year for indie studios and developers. Between studios like Team 17 and Mediatonic, the developers of Dredge and Fall Guys respectively, this year has seen many game dev layoffs and studios
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Famitsu is one of the biggest Japanese magazine publishers, selling millions of copies every month and often getting features from the biggest game developers of all time, having previously had columns where they interviewed Masahiro Sakurai, among others. This makes it all the more surprising to see them start heavily featuring Western indies. This week,
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A few weeks back, when the nominations for the Game Awards were announced and set to be chosen in December, quite a considerable controversy struck over one particular game being nominated for the Best Indie Game, that being Dave the Diver. The game may look indie, but a subsidiary of Nexon, a massive game studio
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Cult of the Lamb Fans can await their Cult’s return with the Sins of the Flesh free update coming early next year. For those that haven’t gotten their hands on the infamous cutesy dark Roguelike, Cult of the Lamb is a mix of managing a burgeoning cult of cutesy woodland creatures while going on ever-elaborate
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Lethal Company fans can enjoy extra immersion and challenge with the addition of VR and a new enemy soldier variety themed for the holiday season. For those who haven’t had a chance to check it out, Lethal Company is a cooperative sci-fi survival horror game that drops four players on various planets where they must
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Omori is the depressing, dark RPG by Omocat that you’re probably familiar with. They’ve just confirmed via Twitter that it’ll be getting its graphic novel, which will run in Kodansha’s Seinen magazine, Monthly Afternoon. It’ll be illustrated by Nui Konoito, an up-and-coming artist who’s already shown some promise through the promotional art. This is coming
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Among Us is somewhat well known at this point for getting some excellent crossover content, like with Pusheen, Destiny 2, and Glass Onion. They’ve gone all over the map regarding who gets costumes in the game, but now we’re getting an update dedicated to crossing over with many different indie games you might know. This
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Following Unity’s pricing fee disaster, indie game developers can enjoy using the GameMaker Engine for free, so long as they don’t charge users for their games. For those unaware of the pricing issue, the game engine Unity, responsible for titles like Hollow Knight and Subnautica, released a new runtime fee that made developers pay each
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Subnautica fans looking for their next taste of undersea survival horror can look forward to Subnautica 3, the third installment of the underwater franchise, in the first half of 2025. For land dwellers who haven’t had a chance to jump into one of the scariest survival horrors of all time, Subnautica is a sci-fi survival
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