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Since its earliest days, the video game industry has been built on developers creating clones of competing games, with varying levels of originality and varying levels of enforcement from game platforms. Now, though, AI coding tools are making that cloning process so efficient that many developers are getting extremely cautious about sharing their early work…

There’s no small amount of romanticism attached to independent media. In a world run by corporate giants, it’s nice to imagine the little guy using hard work and creativity to defeat money and power. That certainly applies to game development, where we occasionally get to see a janky, weird-looking game made by absolute nobodies outperform…

As much as we love our big gaming studios and long-running franchises, there’s just something special about indie games. That DIY spirit behind a production and the bold creativity that’s willing to take chances with the medium goes a long way in distinguishing these titles from their big-budget counterparts. Indie games have earned a bigger…

It is happening again: some kids with a wild dream of making comics are launching their own publishing company: Comicsburgh. As the name might suggest, it is located in Pittsburgh, and reflects the Steel City spirit: “More than Pirates, Penguins, and pierogies—it’s comics forged in the ’Burgh.”

Griffin Gaming Partners Co-Founder Peter Levin chats with Yahoo Finance Executive EditorBrian Sozzi about managing over $1.6 billion in gaming investments, the massive untapped potential of indie sports games, and his personal journey representing early MMA legends before investing in Scott Coker’s new combat sports venture.