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Animal Well is the latest hit indie game to blow up Steam, has glowing reviews, and is on sale for a sweet launch discount
By Brendan Lowry published
Explore The Dark Shortly after its launch, new Metroidvania Animal Well has rapidly become a Steam Top Seller amidst rave, glowing reviews across the board.
2023's indie game of the year is on Xbox Game Pass, and I now understand how it earned its awards
By Zachary Boddy published
Cooking History Venba tells the story of a Tamil family through cooking, and there's a reason it was named the best indie game of the year at IGF 2024.
From new Xbox games to AR glasses, here are my favorite things I saw at my very first GDC
By Zachary Boddy published
GDC 2024 At GDC 2024 in San Francisco, I saw a lot of awesome things from upcoming Xbox games, new Razer products, and even epic AR glasses.
Accessibility, sustainability, empathy, and how to build a better games industry
By Zachary Boddy published
Better Games At GDC 2024, I saw many developers and speakers stand behind the same three themes that I want to see change game development for the better.
Botany Manor for Xbox review: A calming, planting, exploring, Xbox Game Passing adventure
By Zachary Boddy published
Review Balloon Studios' debut game is a quaint, relaxing puzzle-exploration game centered around plants, and it's a brilliant way to spend an afternoon.
"We are absolutely actively looking for developers." Behind the scenes with some of the first games from Xbox's new Global Expansion team
By Zachary Boddy published
New Games During GDC 2024, I was able to sit down with Agnes Kim, Director of Global Expansion at Xbox, and previewed some upcoming ID@Xbox games.
Co-op horror game Content Warning launches on Steam for FREE (but only for 24 hours)
By Cole Martin published
FREE Become a famous SpookTuber or die trying.
Xbox is working to bring a lot of great games to the platform this year, and I got to play some of them early
By Zachary Boddy published
Xbox Gems During GDC 2024, I attended an ID@Xbox preview event, where I could play demos and speak with developers about upcoming Xbox games.
The difficulties of publishing indie games: the studio behind 'Deliver Us the Moon' shares 5 new games that were pitched to more than 40 publishers to no avail
By Cole Martin published
Indies KeokeN Interactive, the Dutch studio behind Delivers Us the Moon and Deliver Us Mars, have shared a video showing games under development that are struggling to find investment.
One of the best hidden gems of 2023 is now on Xbox, and it's my favorite game of the year so far
By Zachary Boddy published
Peel the Fruit I finally played Mediterranea Inferno, one of the highest-rated indie releases of 2023. This incredibly written, aggressively colorful game absolutely blew me away.
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