NFTs aside, the video game industry is often left out when we talk about industries that have a major impact on the environment.
The two developers of an indie game called Ooblets have been subjected to "tens of thousands if not hundreds of thousands" of abusive messages following their decision to put their game on the Epic Ga
Among the growing field of indie games, one truly stands alone: Dwarf Fortress. The unbelievably rich and complex and legendarily user-unfriendly title has been a free staple of awe and frustration fo
2018 has been a big year for big games, and with new titles from the Assassin’s Creed, Red Dead Redemption, Call of Duty and Battlefield franchises all competing… it’s enough to make
The sequel to the legendary, and legendarily difficult, indie sleeper hit La-Mulana has finally been released, and all gamers with a penchant for retro-style platforming and a broad masochistic streak
The AAA games on display at E3 this year have, as usual, an amazing array of beautiful, nearly photorealistic graphics — and while they're amazing in their own way, I always find it fun to highlight
If there's one thing E3 was not short of, it was controllers. Thousands of the things! Xbox controllers, Dual Shock controllers, third party controllers, motion controllers. But at Indiecade, an indep
"Doom was made by six dudes in six months. And that's where we are again — it's come full circle." That's Mike Wilson, the founder of Devolver Digital, a game publisher that's made a name for itself
It's been great times for indie games over the last few years, a true golden age compared to what went before. Yet I'm very worried that the great times are over and that - on multiple fronts - the fo
Given the degree to which graphics have not changed over the last few years in high-end games, it's surprising how strong the idea of graphical power remains in the games industry. Gamers are still ho
It's easy to consign tablet and mobile gaming to the lamestream and feel that there's a detente between that and the more core gaming platforms. However this is both shortsighted and naive. There's a
Most of the talk around games tends to focus on climate. It's about finding the right customers, funding, platform, business model, partnerships, metric and discovery solutions, technology, route to m
<img src="http://www.crunchgear.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/06/indiegames.jpeg"><a HREF="http://indiegames.com/index.html">IndieGames</a> supports indie game developers by showcasing them at various e
<img src="http://www.crunchgear.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/05/indies.jpg" />Checking a few indie game blogs, I ran across some excellent-looking games coming out soon for PSN and XBLA. These micropub
<img src="http://www.crunchgear.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/02/braid_ss5.jpg" />Perhaps the last year's most consistently well-reviewed game, Braid has been stuck on the 360 for some time now. Now why
If you’re bored and want something new to play today, but it’s not dark out yet so you can’t load up Left 4 Dead, consider checking out some excellent independently developed games (
<div class="center" IndieCade is happening right now in Seattle, and if you’re into indie games and/or development, it’d be a really great thing to check out. Unfortunately I
Over at TIGSource they’ve been running a “Bootleg Demakes” competition that I’ve been following, in which developers are to take a modern game and “demake” it into
Devin Coldewey Contributor More posts by this contributor Why Elon Musk’s AI company ‘open-sourcing’ Grok matters — and why it doesn’t This Week in AI: Midjourney bets it can
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