I spent roughly 2–3 hours with Detective Sherlock: Shadow Stalker. The AI conversations were genuinely fun, but the detective game underneath never made me want to finish the case.
Maciej Miąsik helped program Robbo for DOS in 1993. Thirty-three years later, he has rebuilt that version for Playdate with all 60 planets intact.
Needle In A Haystack Simulator takes the mundane-game trend to its logical extreme: five million pieces of hay, one hidden needle, and a viral response that sent the experiment across social media.
Can playing video games make you go blind? We look at what long gaming sessions really do to your eyes, from digital eye strain and blurry vision to myopia, plus a few simple tips for gamers.
The Little Devil Steam Playtest is inviting more players to request free access, test the current build, report bugs, and give MI Pixel honest feedback ahead of its planned Q4 2026 release.
Aevryn Studios developer Ricardo Tavares Santos shares how removing ads from Aevryn Candy became more than a business decision and began shaping the game’s pacing, difficulty, scope, and identity.
Kojima Productions’ PHYSINT has a new publisher. Xbox has stepped in after PlayStation Studios ended its collaboration on the action-espionage project.
Jake Boyette wraps up PAX West 2026 with final-day demos, developer conversations, and indie highlights from the show floor.
Co-op questions, cyberpunk firefights, potion production and apartment gardening: five indie games and demos to check out for September 12–13.
The third-party Steam AI Gaming Festival aims to explain how developers use AI, but its 12 categories blur very different tools, games, and software. Bad Rats appearing in every section raises questions about how the lineup was checked.
The name can give the wrong impression. Fix Gaming Channel is an independent gaming website and media outlet, with YouTube, Rumble, TikTok, and other social channels supporting its news, reviews, interviews, and indie coverage.
Solo developer Colin Teberg shares why he built Iron Dice around shorter campaigns, readable systems, meaningful provinces, and the goal of letting grand strategy players reach the end.
A convincing Ledger-branded email warns users to update before September 15 or risk losing wallet access. The message is phishing and should not be trusted.
At 18, Xzem discusses nearing 40,000 TikTok followers, his Brawl Stars video process, Supercell Trusted Creator status, and his goal of reaching 100,000.
Jake Boyette returns to PAX West for the first time since 2017, finding a show floor packed with indie games before heading to The MIX Fall Showcase.
