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For Alice Oseman, whose LGBTQ+ young adult Heartstopper series became the UK’s fastest-selling graphic novel ever, and has since been adapted into a hit Netflix series, that somewhere was a table at Thought Bubble.

The first time I heard about the game Mouthwashing was on social media after it was released in 2024, and I was instantly mesmerized by its blend of psychological horror and its unique art style. And Xbox Game Pass subscribers can play this creepy game starting on Oct. 29.

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…

Invader Comics is bringing readers back to the dangerous world of The Digger, the indie hit from writer T.S. Luther and artist Sam Gudilin, with a new trade paperback collecting the complete four-issue miniseries. But that is not all. The release also introduces The Digger: Treasure Hunt, a two-player tabletop role-playing game that lets fans…

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…

BBC Studios is launching a new scripted production label, CliffEdge Entertainment.

Five years ago, I sat down in my apartment in China’s Anhui province andwrote a quick piece about independent video games.

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…

With the announcements of games like Resident Evil, Street Fighter, God of War, Elden Ring, and The Legend of Zelda all getting film & TV adaptations in the next couple of years, we think it may be time to introduce the world to the lesser known side of gaming: Indie games.

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.”