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Stardew Valley Fishing Minigame Makes A Surprisingly Good Wordle Clone
30.8.2023
Free, fan-made browser game Pufferdle is an unexpectedly successful cozy mutant. Developer Abdullah Masud made it from sewing together some beloved parts—the fishing minigame from Stardew Valley, and Wordle’s streamlined hangman procedure—and ended up with a pixel fish-guesser many will find...
Blasphemous 2 Is 2023's Most Sickening Metroidvania, And I Love It
23.8.2023
Blasphemous 2 takes the “2" in its name quite seriously. Everything in this sequel to The Game Kitchen’s 2019 Metroidvania platformer is expanded: the map and world, the equipment and spells, the puzzling and platforming…even the already-excellent boss encounters are bigger and better. Despite...
Blasphemous 2 Is 2023's Most Sickening Metroidvania, And I Love It
23.8.2023
Blasphemous 2 takes the “2" in its name quite seriously. Everything in this sequel to The Game Kitchen’s 2019 Metroidvania platformer is expanded: the map and world, the equipment and spells, the puzzling and platforming…even the already-excellent boss encounters are bigger and better. Despite some...
Hades’ ‘Impossible’ Setting Just Got Beaten For The First Time
4.8.2023
Self-described Hades “fucking legend” and speedrunner Jade, or AngeL1C, became the first known player to complete the cult-favorite roguelike at its max difficulty settings on August 2, 10 days after roguelike content creator Haelian said it couldn’t be done in a July 25 YouTube video. Read more
Exclusive: Blasphemous 2 Devs On The Sequel Being A 'More Pure Metroidvania'
27.7.2023
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Stardew Valley's Next Update Includes A New Festival And...Secrets?
18.7.2023
Fans of pixel-art farming simulator Stardew Valley just got another tease about what to expect from the upcoming 1.6 update. While we still don’t know when it will release, developer Eric “ConcernedApe” Barone tweeted on July 17 that the patch will include another festival and more dialogue.Read...
There's A New Worst Game Of 2023, And It's A Switch Exclusive
14.7.2023
Remember that awful looking The Last of Us clone, The Last Hope, that got released earlier this month? Well, it turns out the game is much worse than the trailer first suggested. Apparently, the whole game is only about 20 minutes long, takes place in one street, and is a broken mess.Read more
2022 Favorite Vampire Survivors Is Almost A New Game After This Upgrade
12.7.2023
Gothic indie darling Vampire Survivors will be—please accept this pun—completely revamped after it receives a round of updates on August 17. That day, the roguelike bullet hell will receive co-op mode and the Steam version will move over to a new engine.Read more
9 Cool Games Coming To Xbox
11.7.2023
We’re in a bit of a lull between big games right now, which makes it the perfect time to focus on some smaller releases that don’t often get much time in the limelight. Microsoft’s summer ID@Xbox livestream just did exactly that, highlighting a bunch of cool indie games coming to Xbox One...
This Horror Game Gives You A Virtual Girlfriend From Hell
5.7.2023
Fairy tales and Drew Barrymore movies taught me that a girl with butterflies in her stomach might be easily inconvenienced by some weird guy (either a literal beast or an everyman who acts like one), but the fluttering is a product of purity, clear like a raindrop. Without a sword or a big-shot...
14 Amazing Games To Celebrate Indie Penance Day 2023
5.7.2023
Hello! It’s Indie Penance Day once again! The day that all Americans put aside their differences and unite in celebration of the joy of independent games development. Ever since the founding fathers played their first game of World Of Goo, the celebration has been observed by every American by law....
People Mistakenly Think Five Nights At Freddy’s Meme Audio Is From Titan Sub
30.6.2023
If there’s one thing the internet loves, it’s spreading misinformation for the memes. In the midst of news flooding (sorry) through the internet about the OceanGate Titan submersible implosion, Five Nights At Freddy’s ended up becoming a part of the story on TikTok. It’s all thanks to a viral audio...
Five Nights At Freddy’s Movie Producer Was ‘Made Fun Of’ For Working On Film
30.6.2023
The movie adaptation of horror game franchise Five Nights at Freddy’s is just a few months away from its October 27 debut, and like many video game films, production on it has been in the works since at least 2015. Now, with Jason Blum (The Purge, Split, M3GAN) producing it, it’s finally got...
Skullgirls Players In Shambles After Devs Hide Butt, Nuke Nazi References
28.6.2023
2012 2D anime fighter Skullgirls is under siege by some fans after a recent update made micro-adjustments to scantily clad women and got rid of Nazi symbols among a host of other tweaks to the decade old game. The tweaks led to review bombing on Steam and claims by fans that the small changes have...
Among Us Is Getting An Animated TV Show
27.6.2023
Among Us, indie studio Innersloth’s online multiplayer social deduction game and unwitting meme bait, is getting its own animated TV show. According to a Variety report, Innersloth is currently working alongside CBS Eye Animation Productions to make it happen. Read more
Studio Behind One Of 2023’s Best Games Just Laid Off A Ton Of Devs
26.6.2023
The video game industry is littered with canceled projects and bad games, so it’s amazing when something manages to 1.) get released and 2.) be really, really good. Season: A Letter To The Future checked both boxes, arriving on PlayStation 5 and PC earlier this year to some rave reviews that...
10 Indie Games That Are Bursting With Imagination
29.5.2023
If you’re as sick of AAA development practices and staff treatment as you say you are, then you really ought to be looking a lot deeper into the world of indie development. And wouldn’t you know it, along with nine from earlier today, we’ve another 10 unknown or under-known indie games that...
9 Of The Most Fascinating Indie Games For Your Steam Wishlist
29.5.2023
Hello, sit down, and welcome. It’s time for some Indiegeddon! This is where I distract the entire Kotaku crew with a barbecue-based holiday, and take over the site with indie games that otherwise struggle to get coverage on major gaming sites. You, in turn, wishlist then buy all these games...
30 Indie Games You Should Know About Releasing In 2023
7.1.2023
It’s the end of the first week of 2023, and while there are plenty of big blockbusters to look out for this year, there’s also a ton of smaller projects in development that will grace your personal computer and consoles in the next 12 months. So we gathered up a handful of games that stick out...
TV Network Ripped Online After Calling Classic Sega Game 'Indie'
4.10.2022
A British media conglomerate, Sky, has just made a complete ass of itself on Twitter, after attempting to hang wiv da cool kidz while promoting its new partnership with David Beckham’s eSports company, Guild. Asking followers of the [checks notes] technical support account to tweet a screenshot...