In another world, someone at SONY got inspired by TASBot speedruns and convinced the company to make user submitted TAS a native feature instead of this slop. Having trouble with a boss? Turn on the TAS and watch Aloy glitch halfway into the boss before demolishing it with goof physics.

Like so many of us, I *clearly* remember watching the violent attempt to overthrow democracy, live, in real time & unedited on TV after reading, hearing & seeing months of clear, intentional steps toward that goal on this day.

We're stoked to introduce the 'No Gen AI' seal for indie games! Indie devs can use it on their game's store page to assure potential players that their game was made without the use of Generative AI. You can grab it from the Polygon Treehouse website:- www.polygon-treehouse.com/no-gen-ai-seal

What’s the best Power Rangers series? My wife & I discovered we can pick up complete collections for cheap and are trying to narrow things down to like… 3? I’ve never seen any of them other than the OG movie + weirdly decent modern one, so I’m kinda lost here.

Morning. If you're waking up to a feed full of vague "wtf" it is because the US bombed Venezuela overnight and kidnapped its president That's where to start if you're catching up. Good luck

Boardgame #2 of 2026: Wonderland's War! It's a competitive area control boardgame with a really unique bagbuilding system in lieu of rolling dice/drawing cards. You have 3 sets of 4 rounds to accumulate as much power as possible, each punctuated with a battle at the end for dominance & VP.

Played Bitoku for New Years Eve and had a surprisingly good time with it. We'd previously held off on playing because the board is daunting to look at and the learning curve is steeper than most- but once we got rolling it was a solid Kitchen Sink + Point Salad Euro.

Today is the last day that you can repost this image

This Brazilian woman hates AI

my favorite meme for this time of the year

This is just going to always be my go-to response to this kind of thing anthonymoser.github.io/writing/ai/h...

I really wish interviewers would ask these people how they would feel if 80% of potential buyers pirated their games instead. They’d be singing a wildly different tune, I wager. CEO’s certainly were 10-20 years ago, so this type of defense of the plagiarism machine always feels super weak to me.

2025 was a year filled with fantastic roguelikes, but one of the best was overlooked time and time again. Here's why you should play Monster Train 2: gameinformer.com/2025/12/26/w...

Tis the season for indie game rec threads, and I'm no exception. Here's a bunch of games I absolutely love that are in the Steam Sale and are 100% worth picking up:

Tis the season for indie game rec threads, and I'm no exception. Here's a bunch of games I absolutely love that are in the Steam Sale and are 100% worth picking up:

I keep seeing folks say “gamers hating AI” are going to cause the pendulum to swing back hard and people will end up loving AI. Nah, the bubble will pop and almost everyone will move on like NFT’s. The tech won’t survive if you have to constantly force everyone to use it.

I'm glad Sandfall finally explained the AI generated textures in Clair Obscur: Expedition 33. I really, really wish they hadn't waited for 8 months to do so, and may not have done so at all if the IGA's hadn't pulled their GotY award. That level of silence speaks volumes.

I've been working on a game pitch and story dear to me, "ENGINE ANGEL", with the team at Ivy Road! We're still seeking funding, but in the meantime I wanted everyone to still be able to share the work they've done. I'll be sharing more as well as reposting any of the team's posts so stay tuned!

The IGAs Nomination Committee is officially retracting Debut Game and Game of the Year, awarding both categories to new recipients. Additionally, we are retracting one of the Indie Vanguard recipients. Full details can be found in our FAQ under Game Eligibility: www.indiegameawards.gg/faq

everyone dislikes genai in games, but kids and story-focused players the most. sounds like we'll be ok. just have to stay the course here and the "inevitable" new technology nobody likes will die. again. quanticfoundry.com/2025/12/18/g...

A few years ago I did a giant poll for the Steam Replay 2022 to see how people stack up against the median Steam user, and wrote up a giant blog post with my observations of the results. Now that a few years have passed I figured I'd run another one to see what changed: forms.gle/xzPQXquufiU3...

Tonight’s the night 🏆 Before the festivities kick off, dig into the official IGAs Steam event below and support some of the nominees and indies from a few of our partner showcases. Countdown: 3:30 PM PT / 6:30 PM ET Main Ceremony: 3:50 PM PT / 6:50 PM ET Watch: www.youtube.com/watch?v=lixL...

Oh good this provides me with a chance to finally say this: Hey did we just brush aside all the weird shit about the devs of KCD aside for the second game? The whole WE ARE SO HISTORICALLY ACCURATE THERE ARE ONLY WHITE PEOPLE IN THIS GAME, IGNORE THAT EVIDENCE THAT POC LIVED IN EUROPE

“AI is ok as long as it’s not taking anyone’s job” and whose work is it trained on. Did you forget that it’s a bunch of stolen fucking shit? Are we moving the goalposts already? “it’s sticking around so you have to get used to it, be realistic” no I don’t. Eat my shit and hair

The fact that the games industry is so dead-set on disregarding Concept Art as being part of the game it helps make is eternally frustrating to me. If the slop machine extrudes a design for you that you then force an artist to make "real", that still means there's AI generated content in the game.

Placeholder assets should scream 'placeholder' at you.

Using genAI for concept art is so fucking stupid because like... that's where you get the cool shit. Thats the blue sky phase where artists make pieces of art that will be seen by a teenager later and change their life forever. Why would you want to start from mediocre. Why would you do that.

The fact that the games industry is so dead-set on disregarding Concept Art as being part of the game it helps make is eternally frustrating to me. If the slop machine extrudes a design for you that you then force an artist to make "real", that still means there's AI generated content in the game.

I'm going to be checking out Raiders of Blackveil on stream today! It's an interesting mix of Hack & Slash Dungeon Crawler & Roguelite that keeps kicking my butt... but the loot is worth it! www.twitch.tv/wanderbot/ #ad

Oh hey Monster Sanctuary is 90% off at $2 right now on the Switch. It’s easily one of my favorite Monster Collection RPG’s and is an absolute steal at that price. www.nintendo.com/us/store/pro...

Grab your stars folks. That and go play Ikenfell, Secret Agent Wizard Boy or read Mother of Learning instead of feeding Rowling’s terf-supporting garbage. Because even if it’s free for you, it’s still money in her pocket from Epic and just as much encouragement to keep being horrible.

(its also very weird that this game got caught using ai the same way anno 117 and many others have and just skirted right by, mostly because...too many people liked this game?)

Sorry I think using AI for placeholders is also bad ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ I know you only care about finished art but placeholder art also needs to be made by a human being who also needs to be paid for that But placeholder midjourney slop cuts that artist out

The problem is that so many people put “Indie” on the same scalar plane as AA and AAA, when it isn’t. Small games should be Single A or something. That way indie can actually mean independent, rather than small, low budget, cheap, etc…

Since I posted this yesterday: - The writer of the "I hate muslims" review has doubled down, and added that they also hate transgender people - Valve removed my flag from the review, with nothing done about it. The review remains up and on our Steam page I say again: Is this what Steam is now?

My wife got us into Warhammer: Age of Sigmar earlier this year as a fun thing to do together, and we've been slowly assembling, priming, and now painting our models. Unfortunately, I'm plagued by indecision with the color scheme for my stormy lads. I tried drawing a mockup and still can't decide!

Normal People: "Last night I won a lottery in my dream!" Me in my dreams: #indiedev #gamedev

My wife got us into Warhammer: Age of Sigmar earlier this year as a fun thing to do together, and we've been slowly assembling, priming, and now painting our models. Unfortunately, I'm plagued by indecision with the color scheme for my stormy lads. I tried drawing a mockup and still can't decide!

Spotify is garbage on every count: Its treatment of artists, its ICE advertising, the CEO's investment in military AI, its leading role in the commodification and AI slopification of music, its terrible audio quality—you name it. So I quit, and put together a complete guide to getting off Spotify:

A nice checklist of what to include as a #gamedev when emailing youtubers/streamers for coverage, by @wanderbot.bsky.social

Oh okay this video just did a Mortal Kombat Fatality on me

That moment when one of your favorite creators praises your game :') Thanks, @wanderbot.bsky.social! 💚

This is actually quite brilliant, up to and including the final sentence 🔥

"One of the most interesting takes I've seen on bullet-heaven leveling, power curves, and speed. [...] It feels so good to zip through a run, and makes me want to come back and play more." Always thrilled to see @wanderbot.bsky.social play. Thank you! 🙌 youtu.be/E5HqeD-ZZJk?...

We are SO grateful to have so many friends we get to collabrate with this Stumptmas! They will be playing games with us, helping us raise money for charity, and making memories with us. If you would like to join our team for Stumptmas, tiltify.com/team-invite/... (Handles on the next post) 1/3

People don't dislike Tim Sweeney nearly as much as they should.