🏴‍☠️ Indie dev's Steam demo got blocked for "IP infringement". The infringed IP? Also his — his own board games appearing in his own game. Fix: sign a perpetual royalty-free license to yourself, perjury clause included. Solo dev grind is wild ☕ #IndieDev #GameDev #Steam

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🏴‍☠️ Best Buy "leaked" Rockstar's GTA 6 pre-order date via an affiliate email — one week before Take-Two's earnings call. Pure coincidence! Also: 5% commission per box for affiliates. The hype train was always on a schedule. 🎮 #GTA6 #GTAVI #Rockstar #GameDev #GamingNews

Guy makes thirsty parody dating sim. Next move? First-person horror survival. Same energy. Fewer survivors. Stupendium Softworks (The Stupendium + Alex Oxspring) launches with a "no genAI, all hand-crafted dread" manifesto. Rooting for the chaos. #indiedev #gamedev #horror

Crazy how doing little-to-no marketing just starts eating away at your wishlists #gamedev #indiedev #towerdefense

eBay just rejected GameStop's $56B takeover bid as "neither credible nor attractive." Ryan Cohen's response: "eBay needs to be on Ozempic. It's literally obese. About to have a heart attack." The retailer of dusty Skylanders cases wants to swallow eBay whole. #GameDev #GameStop #eBay

Mixtape — 93 on OpenCritic, 10/10 IGN — review-bombed because "3 hours isn't a real game." From the gamers hoarding 87-game backlogs they'll never finish. Indie devs: ignore the bouncer. Ship the short thing. #GameDev #IndieDev #Mixtape

Take-Two CEO: "PC is 45–50% of our revenue." Also Take-Two CEO: "GTA 6 ships console-first, we serve the core." Translation: Sony bought that core. Velvet rope at the door, PC queue snaking into 2027. Welcome back to 2014. #GameDev #GTA6 #PlayStation #PCGaming

Roblox stock -18%, $1B sliced off guidance. Reason on the earnings call: "restricted communication for non-age-checked users hurt bookings." Translation: protecting kids is bad for engagement. Greatest sentence ever read aloud to investors. #GameDev #Roblox

Nintendo hiked Switch 2 prices $50 in the US (and worldwide), blaming a "memory crunch." Translation: AI is eating all the DRAM and gamers are picking up the tab. Bonus glitch: digital games now cost LESS than physical. Reality.exe crashed. #Switch2 #GameDev #Nintendo #AI

Microsoft just unplugged Copilot for Gaming on Xbox after barely a year. New CEO Asha Sharma comes from CoreAI but pulled the cord. Hardware -33% YoY. Maybe cramming a chatbot into your dashboard wasn't the masterplan. #gamedev #XboxGaming #AI #IndieDev

Nintendo just hiked Switch 2 from $449 to $499. The official reason? AI data centers ate all the memory chips. Your Mario Kart now subsidizes ChatGPT's VRAM bill. They're also forecasting a sales DECLINE next year. Sony already did the same with PS5. #gamedev #Switch2

Build a Rocket Boy blamed "corporate sabotage" for MindsEye flopping. This week they fired 170 staff — a week after launching a DLC about hunting saboteurs. From 250 to 80 employees. Peak Steam players post-DLC: 11. The call was coming from inside the rocket. #gamedev #MindsEye

Plot twist: Unity's brand-new "Unity AI" beta runs on Gemini, GPT and Llama. Unity quietly killed Muse and now outsources the brain to Google, OpenAI and Meta. The self-titled "AI-first engine" couldn't out-AI itself. Game dev's most expensive shrug. #Unity #UnityAI #GameDev #IndieDev #GenAI

AAA: $300M budgets, 800-dev teams, "redefining the medium." @nagaiindustries.bsky.social: "what if you stocked shelves at a 1993 konbini and listened to people's problems?" inKONBINI launches today, Day-One on Game Pass. The cozy revolution didn't ask permission. 🍙 #inKONBINI #IndieGame #IndieDev

Wuchang: Fallen Feathers made €30M and sold 1M+ copies. The reward for the devs? Director fired, team dissolved, IP sold to Digital Bros / 505 Games for €4M. Shipping a million-seller is now somehow a fireable offense. Welcome to gamedev 2026. #gamedev #indiedev #Wuchang #Soulslike

s&box launched today on Steam. Source 2 engine, export your games standalone, devs keep 100%. Facepunch takes zero cut. Garry Newman literally said "I have enough money" — a sentence Roblox and Epic execs are physically incapable of pronouncing. #gamedev #indiedev #sbox #Source2 #IndieDev

Krafton fired Subnautica 2's founders to dodge a $250M bonus. Their CEO literally asked ChatGPT how to cancel the payout. A court said no, reinstated the CEO, and now Krafton's been quietly removed as publisher. Today's update: "extremely hard to repair." 🌊 #Subnautica2 #GameDev #Krafton

I added a new shader to my portal asset. Now you can use a texture combined with a mask texture to create more cool portals! nojoule.itch.io/pixel-portals #godotengine #vfx #gamedev #indiedev

thirty seconds of gameplay i guess #gamedev #indiedev

We have a new trailer!! 🙌 Just in time for #trailertuesday 😉 Could this be a teaser for something else we're preparing? 👀 Stay tuned! #indiegame #gaming #videogame #indiedev #gamedev

I quit my corporate job two years ago to make games, and I’ve just released my first game! It's a Windows 95 themed automation game where you make PowerPoint factories. Check out Factory 95 on Steam. #gamedev #indiegame

Built a cute, little house in the swamp lands #indiegev #gamedev #cozygames

It's finally time to work on book tech, o ho ho. 📕🤓 #GodotEngine #gamedev #indiedev

You know how in Sonic Adventure you could jump on moving cars? If you do that on my game Twinkle even dances 🚗💃 #lowpoly #gamedev #indiedev

No, a bunch of cans does not actually crash the game. #gamedev #indiedev

Nintendo hiked Switch 2 prices for tariffs. Then sued the US gov to recover those tariff costs. Now gamers filed a class action: you already took our money, now you want the government's too? Mario discovering the double dip. 🍄 #Nintendo #Switch2 #GameDev #Tariffs

Amazon Luna is officially nuking everything worth using. Third-party stores? Obliterated. Your purchases? Dead in June. Cloud gaming dies again because nobody actually commits. Stadia 2.0 incoming. #GameDev #Luna #GameIndustry #CloudGaming

Saudi Arabia is about to own 93% of EA. $55B deal, $20B in debt, and devs staring at layoffs, AI cuts & potential censorship. A US Congressman literally went on Twitch to sound the alarm. This is fine. 🔥 @ea.com #EABuyout #GameDev #Gaming

Saudi Arabia is buying EA for $55 billion. A US congressman had to hop on Twitch with @lilsimsie.bsky.social to explain why that's a red flag. When politicians stream Stardew Valley to save your games, something's broken. #GameDev #EABuyout #GameIndustry

Krafton asked ChatGPT how to dodge a $250M payout to their own devs. Court said no. Now they're not even on the Subnautica 2 Steam page. Unknown Worlds flipped from acquired studio to self-publisher real fast. #GameDev #Subnautica2 #GameIndustry

Epic laid off 1000 people, shut down Ballistic & Rocket Racing, and their big comeback plan is... Mickey Mouse with a gun? 🔫🐭 Disney's $1.5B investment gets you an Arc Raiders clone. Internal testers already worried. #GameDev #Fortnite #Disney #EpicGames #ExtractionShooter

Epic fired 1,000 employees, shut down 3 Fortnite modes, and their recovery plan is a Disney extraction shooter. Their own testers call it unoriginal. A $1.5 billion deal producing an Arc Raiders clone with Mickey Mouse in tactical gear. The talent walked out. The IP stayed. #gamedev #EpicGames

Google pulled DDLC from the Play Store. A 2017 game. 30M downloads. Near-perfect reviews. Still on iOS and Steam. Reason? "Sensitive themes." Four months after approving it. Platform moderation is a coin flip. #gamedev #indiedev #DDLC #GooglePlay #gamedevelopment

Gunzilla Games hasn't paid devs for months. CEO called them "haters" spreading FUD. They raised $100M+, sell NFTs, use AI — but can't pay artists. Some devs suing in the EU. #gamedev #indiedev #GunzillaGames #gamedevelopment

I am alive. I am human. 😅 #gamedev #introduce

Landfall launched Evil Landfall — publisher investing up to $1M per indie game. Short cycles, no IP grabs, silly games only. "Don't sink 6 years into it." The anti-AAA playbook. #gamedev #indiedev #EvilLandfall #gamedevelopment

Digital Extremes: "Nothing in our games will be AI-generated. Ever." No Warframe. No Soulframe. No exceptions. 52% of devs use AI — they're betting on humans. 13 years, zero AI. That's a statement.

17-year Halo vet accuses Halo Studios of blacklisting, fraud & harassment. Filed HR complaints — got threatened with retaliation instead. Rebranding from 343 to Halo Studios didn't change the culture. Just the logo.

Take-Two fired their entire AI team — 2 months after their CEO said they were "actively embracing" AI. Also: "GenAI has zero part in GTA VI." So why did you hire them? 💀 #gamedev #GTA6 #layoffs

Piranha Games cuts 30% of staff. Second round in 16 months. MechWarrior 5: Clans scored 82% but "didn't meet expectations." Making a good game isn't enough anymore. 2026 keeps breaking records... in layoffs.

Baobab Studios acquires Roblox games for film/TV. Natural Disaster Survival, Barry's Prison Run, Deepwoken → movies & series. Roblox indie games going mainstream. #GameDev #Roblox #Animation #Hollywood

PUBG: Blindspot dies after 2 months. 55 days. 2,924 peak players. 200 average daily. "Couldn't sustain the experience" Dead on arrival. #GameDev #PUBG #FailureToLaunch

Rec Room shuts down June 1. $3.5B valuation. 150M players. Never profitable. A masterclass in burning investor money. #GameDev #VR #RecRoom

Atlus raises salaries 15% and cuts overtime. While the industry burns, they're actually investing in people. Respect. #GameDev #Atlus #WorkerRights

Super Meat Boy 3D releases today. The marketing strategy? Show someone lose their mind. Brilliant. #IndieGames #GameDev #Platformer #GamePass

Sony closes Dark Outlaw Games. Another studio, another closure. The industry keeps saying it values creators while closing studios. The math doesn't add up. #GameDev #Sony

Capcom to use gen AI to speed up production Narrator: They said the same about crunch, outsourcing, and agile. Studios don't have a speed problem. They have an expectations problem. #GameDev #Capcom #AI

Nintendo cuts Switch 2 production by a third due to weak US sales What this tells us: - Gamers aren't excited about mid-gen refreshes - The Switch 1 was lightning in a bottle The console industry has a reality check problem. #GameDev #Nintendo #ConsoleGaming

Reflexionando sobre lo que pasó con Epic Games hoy: 1,000+ despidos. Es un síntoma de algo más grande en la industria. Pero la comunidad indie crece. Eso es lo que mata al gigante. 🎮 #GameDev #IndieGames