Indie Sign up for the Hooky beta.
Hooky is a chaotic first-person multiplayer card game where fish avoid deadly hooks. Beta sign-up is open, offering early survival gameplay.
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Indie A seemingly endless pile of Needle In Haystack games is emerging, as the developers of a viral-hit imitator claim that their code was copied by a generative artificial intelligence-powered clone.
Needle In A Haystack developers claim a Steam clone copied code, citing matching classes and errors; possible AI decompilation remains unconfirmed.
Indie Crusader Kings 3's Silk and Silver merchant republics expansion will arrive during the unusually quiet period of mid-November 2026.
Silk and Silver launches Nov 17, 2026, adding merchant republics, trade companies, patricians, laws, and trade leagues but no naval warfare.
Indie Dragon Age's original artists wanted to base it on Conan the Barbarian, outraging designers over "sexy sorceresses" and "bare-chested fighters."
David Gaider reveals Dragon Age's conflict between Conan-style art, Tolkien-style writing, and Diablo-like producers, explaining its tonal mismatch.
Indie "I was a real anglophile": A Canadian's fascination with Viz magazine explains why the streets in Grand Theft Auto: London are covered in dogs' eggs
Rockstar Canada built Grand Theft Auto London with American roads, British traffic, and Viz-inspired dog poop skid marks.
Indie Moonlighter developers delay the demo of their new game because generative AI cloning makes it too big a risk, calling on platforms to continue strengthening protections for original work.
Digital Sun delays ReVamp's Steam playtest over AI clone risks; it starts on Discord Oct 29, with a Steam test in January and calls for protections.
Indie Register for the SacriFire Beta.
SacriFire is a 90s-style fantasy adventure about Ezekiel Ridan. A post announces beta sign-up, but release, developer, publisher, or platform details are unknow…
Indie Food Truck Empire Beta Registration Is Now Open
Food Truck Empire is a management game growing a burger van into a mobile restaurant fleet; beta sign-up via Alpha Beta Gamer has no release details.
Indie Sign up for The Last Seed Beta.
The Last Seed beta sign-up is open for a 2D automation game linking factory output to environmental health; release details remain unconfirmed.
Indie Unfortunately, Swedish developer Liquid Swords has filed for bankruptcy six months after launching Samson.
Swedish studio Liquid Swords filed for bankruptcy after Samson's troubled launch, unpaid staff, bugs, and uncertain future support.
Indie Konami says real people matter most in making good games as too much of the industry embraces its own demise through generative AI.
Konami says AI may boost efficiency, but real people and diverse creators remain key to innovative games, offering restraint amid AI hype.
Indie Trailblazers: Into The March is a RimWorld-like, Moebius-inspired roguelite colony simulation that welcomes you aboard its massive landships with a chunky-sounding demonstration
Trailblazers: Into The March is a RimWorld-like roguelite colony sim demo featuring landships, crew contracts, real-time battles, and procedural art.
Indie Black & White 3 does not appear likely to ever happen, but the famously overpromising Peter Molyneux may have inadvertently revealed a remaster of the original.
Molyneux says Black & White 3 faces technical, genre, and rights hurdles; publisher owns the third, Microsoft the fourth, but a remaster may exist.
Indie Rain98 is a blue-toned visual novel set before the year 2000, inspired by Serial Experiments Lain, whose story involves time travel to the past to end the world.
Rain98 is a melancholic 1998 Tokyo visual novel demo where a depressed traveler meets Reina, the Angolmois, and plots to end the world.
Indie The Blood of Dawnwalker's update 1.1 introduces a forgiving difficulty option, yet I suspect I will have trouble forgiving its new directional animal petting feature.
Update 1.1 adds Forgiving and Story difficulty, smoother combat, a respec potion, and directional animal petting, though petting may be tricky.
Indie The Wardogs developers said "We were wrong" and ended Season 2's team-specific cash and experience points bonus experiment after a single tumultuous day.
Wardogs ended Season 2 Blue Team bonus after one day due to exploits and match delays; spawn rebalancing stays, vehicle progression slowed.
Indie Generative AI gloom has reached a new level, as a game developer cancels a demonstration out of fear that copycats will rip it off before release.
Alliance Arts canceled a public demo for Drunken Goddess Reflux, citing video-control limits and fears AI could clone the game before launch.
Indie The vast roguelike Caves of Qud expands further in December with an early access expansion that lets players take on the roles of twisted dogs and trees
Caves of Qud gets Diaspora early access on December 9, letting players become animals and plants, with new mutations, artifacts, and smarter roads.
Indie After nearly three years of early access, Enshrouded has reached version 1.0 with a complete story, a larger map, and far too much additional content to mention.
Enshrouded 1.0 ends early access with finished Emberval map, main quest, level 50, voiced lore, Sparkworks tools, and upgraded visuals.
Indie Before Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 4 launches next week, unionized Activision testers have voted to authorize a strike.
Activision testers union authorized a strike over pay, conditions, AI, and layoffs before Modern Warfare 4 launch, amid stalled bargaining.