Also, very pleased with this year's Best of Play awards on Google Play! As always, it's been great to select the very deserving winners and to celebrate with them via videos and our award ceremonies around the world. You can see the winners here play.google.com/store/apps/e... #GooglePlay

Something to warm you up as winter approaches! Google Play spoke with GAGEX.CO founder and CEO Kensuke Imura about the Hungry Hearts series and being a developer tapping into cosy, food-based fun. play.google.com/store/apps/e... #indie #indiegames #android #GooglePlay

This month on Google Play we speak to Lili Ibrahim, lead artist at @ustwogames.co.uk about building design-forward games and the latest entry into the Monument Valley series. play.google.com/store/apps/e... #indie #mobilegames #googleplay #interviews #indiegames #indiedeveloper #design

Another month, another spotlight on Google Play! This month we spoke to @landfall.se about their journey to bring TABS to #android with TABS Pocket Edition! play.google.com/store/apps/e... #indie #indeidevs #mobilegames #googleplay

This month's indie dev spotlight is with @arnoldrauers.com of Tinytouchtsles, the mind behind Guncho, Card Crawl and many others. play.google.com/store/apps/e... #googleplay #indie #androiddev #indiegames #interview

This month #GooglePlay spoke to @neutronized.bsky.social's Gionathan Pesaresi about his love of game development, pixel art and platformers. #indie #interview #mobilegames #italianindie #androidgames play.google.com/store/apps/e...

Wtf is going on in west London

This month's indie dev interview on Google Play is with the wonderful @pank0.bsky.social and her charming bunny collecting game Usagi Shima! play.google.com/store/apps/e... #indie #indiedevs #googleplay #usagishima #studiorabbiko

Another month and another one of our developer interviews has gone live on Google Play. This time we speak to @rustylake.com co-founders Robin Ras and Maarten Looise about their adventures into the surreal. play.google.com/store/apps/e... #indie #indiedevs #googleplay #rustylake

Other than for political posturing with a small (and probably more right-leaning) industry, I really don't understand why there's so much focus on fishing vs all the other UK industries that provide significant impact to the GDP which Brexit hit far harder than fishing was/would be...

With the news of Raymond's departure from Sony, I do start to wonder at what point do you just decide to go do your own thing? Since launching Assassin's Creed, I don't believe she's seen anything else she's worked on get to release. Gotta be disheartening and tiring.

I did not gel with Clair Obscur and when I read things like this I feel like I must have been playing something entirely different? I found that opening incredibly trite. Perhaps that's why I never saw value in any of the characters or their stories. search.app/iv7we

End of an era. Although I lost direct access to my press account a while ago, it was still a joyous time when I had it.

I've given up on COE33, I just don't gel with it and, unlike BG3 (which I also didn't gel with) I can't really see why people are gushing over it so much? Part of me thinks it's because it's a western-made JRPG and that's it really...

I'll stick with Expedition 33 but, at the moment, I'm really not gelling with it. I know this is an issue of a lot of RPGs that only get going like 10-20 hours in (I presume this fits that description given it's basically a JRPG) but ATM it's giving me a lot of vibes I'm not into that much...

At the Museum of Denmark in Copenhagen and this is a wild game choice to use to show off evolution of gaming software from the 90s to 00s...

Went on a walking tour of Victorian London the other day and as part of it passed by the epicenter of the Fire of London. I had no idea that 1666 is also written with all Roman numerals in descending order!

The third indie dev interview with Google Play is live! This month we speak to @bartbonte.bsky.social, a wonderful solo dev who pushes the boundaries of play through colour, curiosity, and fun! play.google.com/store/apps/e...

There's something quietly depressing about seeing all of the fixtures and fittings of the Game warehouse up for sale on am auction site. bidonline.ncmauctions.co.uk/auctions/924...

Wonder if we'll still need to buy that overpriced horse armour in the Oblivion remake...

I'm not sure I'm totally sold on the Switch 2 you know... Especially as some of the easy wins feel like a bit of a fumble. Why pay for that "game" about the Switch 2? Also wondering how much these Switch 2 Edition upgrades are on titles you already own...

Nintendo Switch 2 powered by Google Meet 😂

The best thing Ireland should do as retaliation is properly tax all the American companies that use Ireland as a tax haven in Europe. That'll certainly put pressure on Trump to rethink if all these billionaires get pissed at him. search.app/M7xri

The second of our indie dev interviews has just landed on Google Play. This month we're talking to @blacksaltgames.com's 3D Artist Michael Bastiaens about their journey into dark depths and cosmic dread with their first game DREDGE play.google.com/store/apps/e...

Pleased with a new series we've launched on Play where we interview some excellent indie devs from around the world. Kicking us off is @jakubamanita.bsky.social from @amanita-design.net! play.google.com/store/apps/e...

Started playing Avowed this evening. Enjoyable but there's something very TES Oblivion about it. I'm unsure if I mean that as a compliment or not. It's fun but definitely feels like an Xbox 360 RPG (aside from its legit excellent visuals and art style).

Idk if I'm being unreasonable, but can someone explain to me why it's a big deal that Grenfell will be demolished? Surely that's the only sensible option. Nobody would live in that place if it was renovated, the cost to renovate is probably more than demolition and rebuild (1/2)

Given that SV is nowhere near San Francisco or any actually interesting parts of California, it's not surprising that Croydon is a better fit than Old St but it's still a bit too close to London Croydon ‘transforming into UK’s new Silicon Valley’, data shows www.standard.co.uk/news/london/...

To celebrate the launch of trading in Pokémon TCG Pocket, I spoke to two of its creators about what it means to bring Pokémon trading cards to the digital realm play.google.com/store/apps/e...

Great to see that they're pushing through on the final part. I'm almost certain it'll end up being called "Reunion" and I'd L O V E it if they did a follow up compilation where you play 1-3 in a near seamless manner. That'd mean 7R3 needs to be on PS5 though... www.eurogamer.net/final-fantas...

Seem loads of pieces about 30 years of Playstation but I don't think I've seen a single one talk about Net Yaroze. For me, that was my first introduction to "indie" games. So many amazing titles that I got to play via the OMP demo disc! Anyone else remember it?

What an utterly bizarre article... but I suppose bad takes are expected from the Spectator...: How Gen Z ruined Guinness www.spectator.co.uk/article/how-...

Bit of an awkward ad there, @playstation.com. Also, why a full stop but not a comma?

Caught up on TGAs. Love the look of that new Naughty Dog game, obviously keen for Witcher 4 (although I hope it's more than just Witcher 3 with Ciri), and gimmie more of that Ueda-san magic too. Surprised there was no Kojima announcement though...

It's nice to see that Apple also awarded AFK Journey Best Game on iOS. Given we awarded it out Best Game back in November as well, it's nice to see Lilith getting recognition for their efforts. I spoke with its producer Jiangyuan He to see how they did it. play.google.com/store/apps/e...

Honestly, I'm not in the leeast bit surprised. As anyone who's had to work with game IP holders will know, nobody can suck the joy out of an IP faster than the partnerships team at a game developer. www.theverge.com/24313309/sec...

While Bluesky is much nicer to use than Threads, the influx of new people does mean I'm now seeing a lot more "threads"- like posts of engagement bait and lists of things people do/like/hate etc. Still, it seems to be keeping pleasant for now and I'm finally starting to use it more regularly.

Google Play's Best of 2024 has launched! Take a look at the games we loved the most this year. Those who know me may recognise a voice too... play.google.com/store/apps/e...

Do y'all say Blue Sky or Blue Ski? Having worked around SV tech peeps I'm inclined to believe the platform is actually pronounced "blue ski", which would make "skeets" make more sense as a term too.

Is it just me or does anyone else dislike hardbacks? I'd love it if they sold new books as paperbacks as well, I just find them so much more cumbersome to read. I'd also settle for hardbacks in the form factor size of a paperback...

To test how image galleries work here, enjoy a smattering of photos of my dog.

Nice to see an influx of people here. Perhaps I'll start posting more. If only the algo was better at surfacing content I was interested in, I'd probably spend more time on here.

It's official, the US is fucked now Musk is in charge of "efficiency".

Aight so I was sort of into Black Ops 6's campaign until this whole zombie shit and boss fights nonsense. I know I've not played a CoD game since Advanced Warfare but what the hell has happened. Give me CoD 2 any day over this shite.

Black Ops 6 is the first CoD game I've played since Advanced Warfare and it's clear tech has improved massively but why is the lip syncing like a bad PS3 game? Also, what's up with that horrendous CoD hub launcher system. It's like booting up Windows 8 to play your game each time.

The most refreshing thing about playing The Plucky Squire is that it's clearly set in the UK. Books are priced in £. There's some loose change on the table in the form of 2p, 5p, and 10p (that I've seen) and the word "mum" not "mom" is in a birthday card. Love it.

Is it just me or is there a noted rise in The Internet being tired of how American the internet is? I see so many Reddit posts (more than usual) dunking on Americans (some fairly, many not), TikTok memes (including from Americans), etc...

Is it just me or are so many op-ed features about games these days just really negative? I see a few that celebrate things but mostly it's "why didn't they do this" or "xyz sucks" etc. Just super tired of the negativity. I certainly see it from certain outlets more than others too...

Still feel there's not much going on here. There's a handful of the same people sharing, which is nice, but until I see either more of the people I already follow start posting or start following some other voices it's really just 2-3 people dominating my feed...

Is it just me or was the Junon FF7 Rebirth demo like wildly harder than the Nibelhem one? Honestly struggled to gel with the combat despite being fine on the first demo...