We are so honored and excited to announce the winner of VGG's 2025 Game of the Year award... CONSUME ME! Congratulations to @qdork.bsky.social, @apthomson.bsky.social, @frogfungus.bsky.social, Violet W-P, and @codatrigger.bsky.social for making such a special piece of art. WATCH THE VIDEO!

It's time for our end-of-year stream! 🎄 twitch.tv/Naetoid 🎄 We're announcing our Game of the Year winner and VGG community-picked GOTY, and unwinding with some cozy holiday decorating in Light Up the Town. Then, we'll be taking a break from streaming until 2026!

"This promise of an AI future, is really just a collective anxiety that wealthy people have about how well they're gonna be able to control us in the future." - @tressiemcphd.bsky.social with an absolute mic drop moment about AI bullshit. Incredible words. Listen to all of it!

We're excited! We've got a live watch party going in the VGG Discord. ❤️‍🔥

"but what if they can't draw" here's hideo kojima making level blockouts for metal gear solid 1 and 2 with LEGO I am begging AI bros to use their brains for two seconds

"they don't know how to express the idea" here's rian johnson's storyboard for knives out pick up a pencil and a napkin

anyone vibrating with excitement for the @indiegameawards.gg?! Spirit Swap is a nominee and we're offering our deepest discount so far, 25% off! As Samar, you'll battle your entire friend group of hotties as you try to figure out the mystery of the spirits✨ and also try to romance the hotties obv

Our final total was $400.00 in donations during stream. We'll be adding another $100 as the cherry on top. That's $250 for Outside In and $250 for Bridge for Youth. Getting needed funds to both city's programs and helping those in need during the winter ahead.

Holiday gathering reminder 🎁 If your guests test w/rapids twice before the event, 48 hours apart, it’ll catch 63% of Covid cases even if they have no symptoms. Testing 3x improves that to 79%! This is how we curb the annual January surge that gave me Long Covid—thanks for protecting yr community 🤍

the good that you do persists in this world

Come watch our friends and please give if you're able! Today's charity stream supports Outside In in Portland and Bridge for Youth in Minneapolis! 💜

A heartfelt thank you to all who buy from independent artists, hire us, or even share our work or give words of encouragement. Even the most established of artists are feeling a decline in work and sales this year. Your support in all or any way is felt and appreciated amongst us! Thank you!!

Back from break and with a new corny sound alert for donations! Thanks to several of our friends we’ve already hit over a third of our initial goal! We’re shooting for $300 and have plenty of time left to do it!

OVER THE RIVEN AND THROUGH THE WOODS It’s time for Infinity Break’s annual charity special! Help us raise money for health and shelter resources for the unhoused in our hometowns www.twitch.tv/infinitybrea...

We're live now co-streaming The Game Awards (pre-show has begun)! 🔗 twitch.tv/Naetoid

":( the attention economy crisis is killing the video games market" i wonder who did a lot of that damage

pals you gotta quit spotify

Good morning! I’m currently at Beaverton High School in OR where a mass student walk out has just started to demand a proactive ICE protocol for their school and district. Students say that similar walkouts were planned at multiple other high schools, including Aloha, Sunset, Southridge & more.

10-hour yule log be damned. 3-hour ILA: A Frosty Glide is our new cozy winter ambience of choice. New review up on VGG for @magicrainstudios.bsky.social's small, snowy, and glide-y open world.

Delighted to share that I've just been named a 2025 BAFTA Breakthrough, alongside such luminaries as the director of K-Pop Demon Hunters and the star of Sinners! www.bafta.org/stories/brea...

Things slow to a crawl during the back half of December, but we managed to fill up the monthly game release calendar nonetheless! Look forward to a busy first two weeks of December. Check out 30+ games releasing this month in our free Patreon post!

GDC 2026 SCHOLARSHIP APPLICATIONS OPEN 📣 Our alumni say it best! 🗣️"This opportunity allowed me to connect with other marginalized game designers, who helped me navigate challenging experiences in AAA & continue to act as mentors for me." ✏️ www.gamedevsofcolor.org/scholarship #GDC2026 #gamedev

Consoling myself with this as we continue to put out 1 or perhaps 10 articles/reviews a month lmao. It's giving the people 🫴 authenticity.

If I was a young person or creator just starting out on the internet today, I’d have no clue how to convince people I was real or that I made my own art myself. You all only know I’m real because I’ve been around for awhile. I use that same reasoning for other creators I know are real.

On December 9th, the doors of Waterfalls at Dawn will open for a once in a lifetime showcase of the raw creative talent of illusive artist Maurice Clayborn. Only the paranormal investigators Saint Garcia Flores and Agent Alister McAndrews will have the opportunity to see what he has in store.

[observing someone’s obsessive passion project] wow i really like whatever’s wrong with that guy

one insidious thing about gen AI is it's not just causing us to mistrust dodgy images, it's also making us mistrust images that look perfectly normal. this is gaslighting in a very literal sense bc the technology is undermining the trust we have in our own ability to perceive reality!

🚨 Creator Day is LIVE! 🚨 For the next 24 hours we are waiving our platform fee! Creators will get the most they can from each transaction. Support your favorite developers and check out over 15,000 projects participating in our Black Friday sale itch.io

WE ARE SO BACK New OFK track this Friday Our first original song since the game Something to warm u up 🤍

Keep it up folks! Do your dailies! Call the paypros and call your reps too! I'll be sending some letters in the mail as well today.

If you're planning on shopping during black Friday or cyber Monday, why not consider supporting artists, writers, creators? Buy a book, purchase an indie video game, commission an art piece, gift someone a Patreon. Your support means everything.

These posters for the South Korean stage production of Macbeth are the greatest thing ever? #art

We did something different with the credits for Demonschool. We used this format: name, title, lengthy description of what they did. Often you see credits in games where you don't know what the credited developer was actually responsible for. We wanted to give people proper, actual credit.

re: roblox dude's interview crashout. the thing he wants to say but can't is "at scale, kids are gonna get hurt. that is the price for scale." the thing nobody wants to say out loud is "maybe scaling to a level where harm isn't manageable is bad, and scale should be contained"

It's that time of year again. Here are our 2025 Game of the Year nominees! As with every year, our list of nominees are synonymous with our favorite games of the year. We highly recommend you check ALL the games out and support these incredible teams. These video games are GOOD.

IT'S TIME. We are live and starting our 24-hour stream, the fifth and final VGG Campout. Come see us! Schedule:

Ben’s being very sweet in this post so I’m gonna go on the other side of the coin and say support vgg this weekend and all other times or else 🪓

I spoke with people role-playing ICE raids in video games to help educate people on their rights and what to do in real-life situations. Tonight, they're holding an event in Fortnite www.wired.com/story/activi...

(after spending hours rehearsing natural things to say if someone engages me while I'm out doing photography) hey my good boy

I feel like marketing wants me to make all sorts of grandiose statements about being the best at this or that. All I really want to say is that Heartspell is a thing we really wanted to make and we think it's really special and fun and you might really love it too.

I'm a big fan of Video Games are Good and you should be too. They're a needed voice in video gaming - in any hobby space really. You can check out the full schedule for this weekend at the link above. Hope to see people at www.twitch.tv/Naetoid at noon tomorrow!

Thrilled and honored to have been involved in the last 5 years of the annual Video Games are Good Campout. Commemorated by this wonderful gift from @fernfolk.bsky.social.

Myself and my @infinitybreak.net pals @mercutiglo.bsky.social and @boyvandals.bsky.social are participating in @videogamesaregood.bsky.social's fifth and final Campout Stream. We'll be there on and off from Noon Pacific Saturday to Noon Pacific Sunday! www.videogamesgood.com/post/announc...

APOLAKI WEPT (Apolaki, the sun god of the Tagalog and Pangasinan people of the northern philippines, was said to have wept at the great suffering of his people during colonial rule)

Thank you! Hey everyone, am an indigenous trans artist in the global south, in perpetual housing insecurity; also permanently disabled with nerve damage that impacts my movement. Id absolutely love if you guys could like my work, or buy a print or send me a tip 🌼 (comments)

I made holiday cards! ❄️🎄❤️ [ #cuteart #artshop #merch ]

It's time!!! Independent Games Festival judging is wrapping up and thus comes my list of IGF Games I Want To Talk About for the year! As usual, I'll threadpost this later (maybe tomorrow) but people willing to click on a link can read it in full right now on my blog! auratriolo.com/blog/2025/11...

I only want to play games made by freaks with love in their heart.

Fearless earnestness is the next cultural phase.