After a pandemic-era funding boom fizzled, Maryland developers are turning to bootstrapping, angels and virality to survive — and keep creative control.

Leveraging analytics, community, and integrated tools to empower game developers and increase revenue transparency LOS ...

An indie game developer experienced a moment of profound moral clarity, and is now deleting his partially-AI-made game from the digital storefront Steam. The game, dubbed “Hardest,” is a free-to-play ...

Vedinad, developer of Megabonk, has withdrawn his game from The Game Awards following its nomination for Best Debut Indie Game, saying it doesn't qualify for the category. In a post to Twitter/X from ...

Originally, the gaming space was literally all about people who could make games, making games, and seeing how well they did. Then, the industry became a bit more corporate, with massive entities ...

As ballooning costs and longer production cycles strain major publishers, smaller teams are finding room to grow — and meaning in the creative freedom.

Two smaller-scale games have cancelled their planned Xbox ports, possibly due to lower demand or the Xbox Series X/S ...

An indie game developer has made a passionate plea to gamers on social media after outing someone on Steam who pirated their title. On the Steam page for Farthest Frontier, a city building and ...

Indie devs are having to defend their art.

Japanese indie games, created by small-scale or independent developers and attracting funding from publishing and other firms ...

Israel’s gaming industry continues to grow, and at the first-ever GameIS grant awards, three independent developers received ...