Happy Holidays from Erika Hakurei, the Absolute Plastic Surgeon! 🌨️ 🥰 Her birthday is TODAY! So celebrate for her if nothing else! 🍰🎅

If we talk the talk, we have to walk the walk. Thank you to everyone who has provided valuable feedback and for your love and support. Like I mentioned elsewhere yesterday, we’re not perfect and never will be but our ambition and love for the indie scene will never diminish. Love y’all 💙

Love yourself, love each other, love the scene. See y'all in 2026 <3

Like I said at the end of the Awards tonight. Read the room. 💙 We love y’all and thank you to every single developer and their games for making 2025 so damn special. See you next year!

@discordiadystopia.bsky.social ahh @grundislav.games shared a link to your publisherpathfinder.com, and I love everything about it. EGA forever, and also a fun and very useful service. Thank you so much, to you and your team for this!!

Announcing The Darkside Detective: 🌔Backside of the Moon! 🕵️ @darksidedetective.bsky.social RETURNS for a 3rd installment! Werewolves, cursed items, and the most terrifying monsters of all - 🤑rich people💸 - will put you to the test in 6⃣ (six) new cases! Wishlist now 🥳 @spookydoorway.bsky.social

Bestowed upon thee: the 🗡️GIGASWORD! This epic adventure is OUT NOW on PC, Nintendo Switch, PlayStation + Xbox. 🎮 ⚖️Wield the GIGASWORD to slash foes, solve puzzles, and retrieve the 🔮God Crystal, all to save humanity. Will you rise to your destiny?✨ @studiohybrid.bsky.social

How do I get @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social involved with Made in New York City™️ @sixoneindie.com and @indiegameawards.gg? A Mayor Elect-hosted segment featuring independent NYC-developed games sounds pretty sick to me. My DMs are open, sir.

The Seance of Blake Manor is my Blue Prince aftermath.site/seance-of-blak...

This is such an incredible tweet. The picture. The quote. The fact that thousands of people even know this off-hand. I kind of can't believe how perfect it is.

BREAKING NEWS!!! My REAL soulstone has been located by the daring @bottenbig.bsky.social! They even decided graciously not to keep it, figuring its great power was too dangerous for anyone to wield, EXACTLY like Harrison Ford at the end of Raiders of the Lost Ark! youtu.be/2qqilcGfIlE

47 indies. 72 minutes. The Six One Indie Showcase returns September 18th via IGN, GameSpot, and Six One Indie's channels! • World premiere from ORIGAME DIGITAL • Lil Gator Game: In the Dark gameplay • Super Rare Originals, Blumhouse Games, and so much more! Save The Date: youtu.be/QncfsZr_fxQ?...

We're reviving 🤘🎸Dead Pets Unleashed. Yep 😎 Guide Gordy and her struggling punk rock band, 👩🎤Dead Pets, as they look for their big break and navigate messy friendships in their 30s. Created by Triple Topping and revived by us, follow @deadpetsu.bsky.social for development! 🎮

Yes, of course: it’s Silksong week. While plenty of games have gotten out of Hornet’s way, there are still a bunch of other indie drops this week worthy of your attention.

Well, this is one for the bucket list: Someone made a 2.5hr video essay on a video game that I published. youtu.be/wePWYFGjLh8

I got to play this at MIGS 2024 and holy cow-- Chasing Rats and the Indie Asylum are really striking gold with this one.

Reminder the real The Escapist team that made all the cool stuff you did like is at @secondwindgroup.com now, so go follow us there if you like essays, fun streams and podcasts! Just a brand name, the people are what's important and we're all still together!

TC writer @crypticcharlie.bsky.social : I don’t need another virtual pet Also Charlie: My Nanomon just suplexed some random blob and now wants a snack 😭💥 We dove into the virtual pet world of Nanomon Virtual Pet‬ and it’s adorably chaotic 👇 www.thumbculture.co.uk/nanomon-virt...

This is not a story of triumph. This is a story of defiance, when the world demands you kneel. Will you submit to your knees? Or fight- against all odds?

3 things announced at Akupara this week, with Fae! 💖 🐹Nanomon releases June 24! 🗡️We're streaming GIGASWORD on Twitch this Friday! 🐼Montabi demo live now! Wishlist our games or somethin if you’re cool like that 🥳

#PAXEast2025 led us to discover #Gigasword by Jack Breen of @studiohybrid.bsky.social - a weight mechanic focused puzzle centric metroidvania game. One of the best demo experiences of the show, hands down! youtu.be/4-hcHT91sr4?...

Someone made a website where we all collectively solve every possible 5x5 Nonogram (aka Picross) 😅 11,263 down, 24,965,248 to go! Let's do it, folks! pixelogic.app/every-...

Don't forget to tune in to our first-ever Thinky Direct this Thursday!

Next Stop: Six One Publishing. www.sixoneindie.com/publishing

Pull your own 🗡️GIGASWORD here at PAX East! 😤🌱 (And give this metroidvania a try, of course! ✨) Over at Booth 15090! 🗺️ @studiohybrid.bsky.social

This is an absolutely fantastic piece of writing.

o7 Wind Chime Server

Perhaps the Gamers are alright

Thank you so much to our friends @sixoneindie.com and @humblebundle.com for featuring FUTURE VIBE CHECK in the Humble Games Showcase! The show just started so get in that stream: www.youtube.com/watch?v=yMej...

Automate, defend, and BECOME the 🎶🎸VIBE! Please welcome 🎺Future Vibe Check by Manik Bhat to the Akupara family! 🐢💜 @futurevibecheck.bsky.social Your 🏭factories don't just produce goods - they make music! Rebuild reality into optimized sound in this ✨musical automation title. youtu.be/PngfN6gbKko

Sorry We're Closed will be coming to consoles March 6th! It will be available on Nintendo Switch, PlayStation 4 & 5, Xbox One and Xbox Series X/S ✨New features include Time Attack mode, difficulty modes and New Game+ (also coming to PC)! Wishlist and pre-order today!

Marvel teases a new story arc in Spider-Man that's an accidental meta-commentary on Marvel's entire business strategy.

our indie game for 15 seconds 😈🌈💋

🚨IMPORTANT INFORMATION ALERT🚨 💝🐢HAPPY BIRTHDAY CHRONOS🐢💝 Chronos is the LEGENDARY 😌 Akupara Games 🐢 tortoise mascot! Pretty boy’s turning 🎂 15 years old today 🥳🎉 💕WE LOVE YOU CHRONOS!!!💕✨

🍷Cabernet by @pintroverts.bsky.social launches Feb 20! Weigh your humanity against your thirst in this 19th century-inspired vampire RPG. 🩸Secure alliances with undead aristocrats 🦇Feed on both friend and foe 🩸Dare to find…love? Coming to PC, PlayStation, Xbox + Nintendo Switch.

Truly wild that the studio which practically founded the modern CRPG gets completely gutted a year after the spiritual successor to that legacy absolutely crushed with fans, critics and influencers. Fucking up Dragon Age a year after Baldur's Gate 3 is such a self-own for EA's c-suite.

📢🔥LAST CALL!🐢📢 Fill out our ✨PRESS/CREATOR✨ application for special access to all things Akupara! All things #indiegames are in your future... forms.gle/zhQq5Cz8bpNC...

Enthralled, entranced, and honored to be publishing: ⏳Echo Weaver by @moonlightkids.bsky.social In this fatal ♾️time loop, you can already do everything. You just don't know it yet. 🤫 youtu.be/7GbbVO23e3g

Devon and Iain are game devs who lost their home in the Altadena fire recently. They’re great people, and if you’re able to help, please consider donating so they can get back on their feet! gofund.me/d8abbd8b

In a world where words control everything, it’s time to write ANYTHING. Can you use your wit to find solutions to mind-bending riddles at the heart of this crypt? Pre-orders for Cryptmaster open next Friday, January 17th! Wishlist and learn more: bit.ly/4fVbvTc

Forge your fate in Megacity West! 🏍️ The 💥#AFUBeta begins Jan 10th! 🤩

There's a non-insignificant number of people working in games media who are old enough to remember the job being part of a wider movement, to distance the act of writing about games from the practice of selling them. Seeing the tide wash back in on that, despite our best efforts, fucking sucks!

TIL that in the Warhammer End Times, Grimgor Ironhide nutted Archaeon the Everchosen in the face. I have also learned that "nutted" is English slang for a headbutt, which makes the above intensely funny.

We got the overwhelmingly positive stat on steam!! We reached 500 reviews with 99% positive??!! Honestly so glad people are enjoying what we've made!!! I'm -still- trying to recover lol but I never -ever- thought we'd get this many people excited about Sorry We're Closed!! Thank you all!!😭💖💖

Whelp, I got followed by my first horny OF bot account so I'm pretty sure Twitter is dead forever if they're coming here too.

I have thought a lot more about TENET in the last few days than I ever expected. Kind of bummed that I didn't watch this movie right when it released, tbh. Anyway, nobody judge me for clearly aping this movie for an upcoming trailer.

You know, I definitely knew that @indiegameawards.gg would slot pretty perfectly into the "end of year award show" space from last year, but actually seeing the list of nominees right in front of me is something else. Congratulations to everyone nominated! Endlessly excited for the show!

It is wild how much Satisfactory just aligns my whole brain. It feels like I'm taking a power washer to my own jumbled neurons.