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The roster for The Arab League of Misfits is finally assembled. This key art represents deep research into regional pop culture, history, memes to create unique character designs for this digital trading card game. Every fighter brings a piece of 17 local heritage to the table. #ALoM #indiegame

Finished this lovely indie game Dosa Divas! I think I got surprised by how it turned out with its gameplay, but the themes of automation versus the love of craft and connection to other people is crucial, and very well executed. Accessible game too, and I heartily recc it. Now I want a dosa 😍

🗣️ PROVE YOU'RE HUMAN UPDATE 🗣️ ecstatic to announce that we'll be in the Day of the Devs (Summer Game Fest edition) showcase! tune in on June 5th at 4pm PT / 7pm ET to watch ✨ NEW ✨ footage of our game about an AI who dares to dream that she's human 👀 www.twitch.tv/thegameawards

“Most films are kind of afraid of joy; they feel safer communicating fear, suffering, anxiety, a lot of people substitute triumph for joy, and with SPEED RACER, we weren’t interested in triumph, but can a family who take such joy in the art form, can they change the world?” - Lana Wachowski

CONTENT CREATOR + JOURNO PALS: The India Games Showcase is part of #SummerGameFest! 40+ indies, all from Indian game devs, packaged for you in one fun showcase. Help us amplify this so we can get these games the attention they deserve. 🔗 Press Kit & fun info: www.indiagamesshowcase.com

Reviewed Dosa Divas alongside interviewed game’s creative director. Corporatism abound. Stephen truly saw my pitch/vision. If you subscribe to Game File due to this piece—I will get paid more moneys, so please subscribe; so I can get paid even more moneys to allow this type of work at Game File!

Following a near death drug experience, game development was a lifeline for next week’s guest. Listen ad-free on Monday if you’re a Patreon member (or Tuesday if you’re not) to our new episode with Outerloop Games co-founder, Chandana Ekanayake. Listen early by joining our Patreon: bit.ly/3HPvNSM

How many of Chandana Ekanayake’s five games have you played? 1. The Legend of Zelda A Link to the Past (1991) 2. Full Throttle (1995) 3. Half-Life 2 (2004) 4. Shadow of the Colossus (2005) 5. Hades (2020) Listen to the full episode to hear him build his perfect console: bit.ly/4njTwLF

Chandana Ekanayake is the co-founder of Outerloop Games and one of the most interesting creative voices working in games today. He’s worked on The Elder Scrolls III: Morrowind and The Matrix: Path of Neo, and has built a fully remote studio. Listen now: bit.ly/4njTwLF

Now you can keep track of how many billions the AI companies are losing on AI. (Red is spending, green is revenue.) isaiprofitable.com

A PhD student at Stanford noticed her classmates were asking Al to write their breakup texts. So she ran a study. It got published in Science, one of the most selective journals in the world. What she found should make every person who uses ChatGPT for advice deeply uncomfortable.

I'm so glad that I was able to showcase Thirsty Suitors at #RPGLB2026! Thanks to @ateatree.bsky.social for being on my couch, and @alymra.bsky.social for being such a big fan! #BlackSkyGamers

hey what's up hello if you'll be up in about six hours or so you should tune in to @rpglimitbreak.bsky.social to see our @mochajones10.blacksky.app run Thirsty Suitors tell 'em Joy said MOCHAAAAAAAAA in their best Kendrick voice :) twitch.tv/rpglimitbreak // #RPGLB2026

small Seattle team doing cool work!

Kendrick Perkins: We're sending our kids to those damn monks that Wemby went to.

Over a year ago, I spoke with @rasheedabueideh.bsky.social about Dreams on a Pillow for a piece that was killed before it could be published. I am honored that he was willing to take the time to speak with me again in spite of that and tell me about his beautiful homeland: kotaku.com/upcoming-ste...

I know maybe one other indie studio using AI coding for games which makes me sad but I guess it’s working for them. I have zero interest in helping any of these AI companies and the waste they’re producing hogging up power for data centers and the damage to employment + knowledge drain.

//FULL EPISODE: OUT NOW// 015 - Dosa Divas with Chandana Ekanayake (@ekanaut.bsky.social), Anne-Marie Weber (@amwaudio.bsky.social)and Ramsey Kharroubi (@marskye.com) Links: linktr.ee/audiologs.po... #audiologs #gameaudio #podcast #indie #food #southasia #turnbasedRPG @outerloopgames.bsky.social

Black storytellers across various media already know that it's rough out here. Our output gets framed dishonestly, we get targeted more, are often paid less, & experience more precarity. This interview with @sjjphd.bsky.social gets into how/why that ain't new and why The Work™ matters.

The mayor of Lake Hyrule is Zora Mamdani

I'll buy a copy of Thirsty Suitors on Steam for a queer of colour who can't afford it but would love to play it 💜 We loved loved loved this experience (I haven't gotten to Dosa Divas yet but planning to!)

If you’re in the Seattle area, you can contact your local representatives to voice support toward declaring a state of emergency to try and help protect the LGBTQ+ community here. Because as this attack and many others have shown, we aren’t doing enough. www.sgn.org/story/166221...

VERY excited to share this big project. Many games are made in Canada, but few are *set* here.
 So, I spoke to 20+ devs who have been making all kinds of games that take place in Canada.
 From showcasing stunning landscapes to telling diverse stories, these games paint a vivid portrait of Canada. 🍁

We appreciate all the warm feedback. We've got an update to Dosa Divas in the works for some pacing and narrative changes, bug fixes, and some gameplay adjustments coming soon.

even THOUGH thirsty suitors was published by Annapurna we still slipped under the radar and didn’t quite find our audience — for me I feel like games like ours are such an opportunity to expand the audience of games, but we need money & infrastructure to do that, beyond *even* the funding to make it

more broadly: the only solution I have to the problem of too many games / not enough players is to grow the audience, which imo means — market indie more indie games to more people, so that non-gamers come across not just one game they’d like to play, but this one & that one & then another

Wrapped up Dosa Divas yesterday from @outerloopgames.bsky.social. I want more 10 hr RPGs with unique mechanics, flawed characters, and real human themes.

it does get under my skin a little bit when people lament a kind of story for being so white and then don't engage with works outside of the mainstream that come from creators of color or engage with non-white narratives

i guess to sum it up, if you want more authentic and also high budget stories about marginalized people, we need to create a society where those marginalized people are in positions of power. otherwise it's not happening.

We made a pretty good coming of age story game but most players won’t even give it a chance because it’s got too much color. We’re not all that different in love, relationships, and generational issues. I promise you can relate to these characters. store.steampowered.com/app/1617220/...

this graduation speech moment is notable, and her amazed shock at having failed to read the room feels instructive. when you're inside the bubble, you think everybody else is. but everybody isn't.

Happy Mother’s Day recommendation to men. Give this a read or a listen with an open mind and it’ll help with relationships with women in your life. www.powells.com/book/will-to...

I know it's Mother's Day, but I have a message for the fathers out there. Read The Second Shift. It's nearly 40-years-old, but just as relevant. Whenever a dad tells me parenting is easy, what I hear is "I'm unaware of how much my partner is doing."

Get it with The Banished Vault for a nice bundle discount! store.steampowered.com/bundle/68748...

Looks good!

An 8/10 is not a funeral. A 7/10 is not a crime scene. Review scores are useful. They are not permission slips. A score can measure polish, pacing, and design. It cannot measure the difference between a game being good and a game being needed.

Owners of media will continue to pump this shit out because their interest to make people believe they are billionaires in the making instead of a class of exploited workers so you’ll spend your life making them richer instead of fighting for a better quality of life for yourself.

Today is Bandcamp Friday! It is also MAY DAY. A global day for laborers rights! I just put out a soundtrack for DOSA DIVAS -- if you haven't listened to it yet I encourage you to check it out marskye.bandcamp.com/album/dosa-d... Your support is appreciated!

"Easily one of the most vibrant-looking indie RPGs to release in April, Dosa Divas is a creative adventure centred around food, where two sisters and their giant mech aim to bring a bit of culture back to the world’s eating habits." www.mirror.co.uk/gaming/april...

If you've liked the music from Dosa Divas or Thirsty Suitors, that's all the work of @marskye.com and a great day to support a very talented composer by buying one (or more) his soundtracks. marskye.bandcamp.com

This was one of my favorite things I wrote for Paste Games are such a uniquely participatory medium that it's easy to become triggered by certain topics. But what about when mechanics unwittingly become a form of conditioning and a vehicle for physical harm? www.pastemagazine.com/games/consum...

The death of Paste/AV Club Games, is such a painful loss for the space because almost every writer you've ever loved reading passed through there at some point. I still consider this piece on Persona 5 to be my "breakout" that put me on the path I'm on today. www.avclub.com/persona-5-pu...

it seems only fitting that the paste games memorial post i share is that one time i wrote about the porn parody of bioshock: infinite, which of course was called biocock: intimate www.avclub.com/hyper-mode-e...

Well, I'd been waiting for Garrett to drop the news, but it looks like we're doing it now, so yeah... Paste Games (AV Club doesn't deserve the stolen valor) is no more. End of an era. I've been reading Paste's games coverage for years before I got to be a part of it.

I'm open to all sorts of criticism of the games we make but having tokenism being thrown at us as a thing we do makes me sad. We aim to make interesting games for players to play that have a certain point of view and that comes naturally from the team. We don't sit around and plot 'Representation'.

Finished Dosa Divas and it might have one of the most beautifully poignant endings to a game I've seen in a while. Had me smiling with tears.

Nice to be included in this NPR story on South Asian rep with @brownmoney.bsky.social and @rahulkohli13.bsky.social www.npr.org/2026/04/30/n...

My top ten most anticipated indie games for 2026. Dosa Divas came out already (it's super charming, with a touching & humane story). "Chess Balatro" roguelike Gambonanza is out this week; and Mixtape is coming up next month. It's shaping up to be another banner year for indies.

ALSO ALL THE DOSAS LOOK SO DELICIOUS.