But game development—the industry where visual asset creation is the single largest production bottleneck—has barely adopted any of it. Indie developers still hand-draw every sprite, manually animate ...

As with all creative industries, generative artificial intelligence (AI) has been infiltrating video games. Now, generative AI is being used to produce game assets and speed up development. This is ...

Thomas Byers receives funding from The Research Training Program Scholarship, supported by the Australian Commonwealth Government and the University of Melbourne. Bjorn Nansen receives funding from ...

The Game Developers Conference, now rebranded as the GDC Festival of Gaming, has released its 2026 State Of The Game Industry survey, revealing a broad range of insights from professionals across ...

This article contains officially confirmed information combined with expert industry speculation, rumors, and analysis. We will update this page with the latest news as soon as it’s available. The ...

Phasmaphobia developer Kinetic Games announced it has established indie publishing label Kinetic Publishing. The new publisher will focus on smaller titles "who have a clear vision for their title" ...

Phasmaphobia developer Kinetic Games has announced the establishment of Kinetic Publishing, a new publishing label that “aims to champion innovation within the independent game development space.” ...

Look, I’m going to be honest with you right from the start: I’m aware that Stardew Valley dropped back in February 2016, nearly a decade ago. While the rest of the gaming world has been farming, ...

Sometimes, it’s easy to feel like everyone is playing the same handful of big games. Certainly, it would be hard to get through 2025 as a gamer without hearing about Expedition 33 or Silksong. But ...

The gaming world appeared ablaze after the Indie Game Awards announced that it was rescinding the top honors awarded to RPG darling Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 due to the use of generative AI during ...

Indie developers have proven over the years that you don’t need a multi-million budget to create something memorable. Some of the best titles out there have been created by a handful of people, or in ...

The Indie Game Awards has stripped Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 of both its Game of the Year and Debut Game awards, citing the roleplaying game's use of generative AI. Run by Six One Indie, the annual ...