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A two-person indie studio just did something no marketing budget can buy. Meccha Chameleon, a $5.99 hide-and-seek game released on Steam on June 10, 2026, sold roughly 15 million copies in 25 days and landed at No. 2 on Circana’s U.S. dollar-sales chart for the month, trailing only EA Sports UFC 6. Games-market analytics firm…

When was the last time a game genuinely disappointed you? For me, it was Condemned 2: Bloodshot. And how could I not be disappointed? A somewhat grounded horror series was turned into a mess of ancient cults, zombified bears, half-naked jester women and exploding dolls with an equally bizarre focus on multiplayer. It was frustrating.…

The video game industry is in a state of flux, and that’s putting it lightly. Whatever emerges will necessarily look nothing like our current moment’s fissuring landmass, and perhaps that metaphor is not entirely inapt: Maybe it’s time for the video game industry to balkanize. On the latest Aftermath Hours, we talk about what that…