Independent games worth your attention: new indie releases, Steam demos, festival highlights and hidden gems.
Krafton cancelled PUBG: Black Budget, an extraction shooter spin-off of PUBG, after it spent just under one year in closed alpha testing. The project aimed to b…
AI Fallout: New York is a browser tech demo; its creator claims ZeniMax sent a cease-and-desist, raising IP risks for free fan projects.
Micron's CEO says RAM shortages may worsen through 2028, with next year's output sold out and prices rising due to AI demand and US pricing scrutiny.
Warhammer 3 modder Venris corrupted SFO Grimhammer 3 to fight unauthorized AI reuploads, defend distribution control, and warns it may go private.
Component shortages have made DIY desktops and handheld PCs costly, leaving new gaming laptops under £999 as the most practical budget gaming option.
Cinderline beta demo: surreal bird-train adventure through decaying underground, gathering ingredients to craft last S'MORE and revive fading world.
Binary Golf beta features continuous target clearing, chained abilities, boss HP fights, local play, custom courses, and speedrun leaderboards.
Capcom's remakes are approaching RE5 and RE6, while Village and Requiem seed a crossover where original and remake Resident Evil timelines meet.
Post-launch 1.4.0 adds New Game++, fixes outfit resets, clarifies builds, improves UI, and optimizes performance for lower-end hardware.
RetroSpace turns airvents and clutter into readable shortcuts, rewarding curiosity, but still needs a sharper design voice.
Nerial, maker of Reigns and Card Shark, is closing after 13 years under Devolver. Staff seek new roles; founders pause for reflection.
Vital Decisions is an eight-player cooperative ER beta demo where players diagnose, treat, and triage under pressure. Release details are unconfirmed.
The article covers a beta sign-up for a one-bedroom parody puzzle game with a mysterious girl and hidden secrets, while noting details remain limited.
Night Train Simulator: Blackout is a beta demo psychological horror train sim about an overnight shift going wrong; details unconfirmed.
Greed & Darkness is a retro-style dungeon crawler with hand-drawn 2D art, set in the cursed Gorge Fortress, now showing a playable beta demo.
Corrupted Veil: open-beta co-op FPS inspired by COD Zombies, set in corrupted Western European trenches with retro energy; launch details unconfirmed
Deadpact beta demo previews a survival horror puzzle with choice-driven outcomes; access, platforms, and release details are still unconfirmed.
Strange Scaffold's Something Is Wrong With the Library reveal uses a corpse-wall premise, but platform and release date remain unconfirmed.
Satisfactory Core Values adds underground mining, new logistics, tight caves, and darkness to make resource transport harder than surface belts.
Steam's discounts and events section is moving from Valve's hand-curated sales to a personalized algorithmic feed as the storefront expands