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Blood Dungeon Delivers Chaotic Roguelite Precision with Spelunky-Style Action
video-games1 day ago

Blood Dungeon Delivers Chaotic Roguelite Precision with Spelunky-Style Action

Blood Dungeon blends Vampire Survivors-like auto-fire with Spelunky-style arena runs, offering quirky characters, RNG-driven upgrades purchased with blood, and a brutal but rewarding difficulty ramp. Its MS Paint-inspired visuals and a dungeon-DnB soundtrack amplify the tension as you dodge bizarre enemies and rack up near-misses across fast, arena-sized rounds. The game shines as a portable, endlessly replayable experience on Switch 2 and Steam Deck while avoiding the hollow slot-machine loop of similar titles.

via Aftermath|
#gaming#indie#review
The Long Arm of Laughs: A One-Limb Stealth Game Slaps Its Way to PC
games1 day ago

The Long Arm of Laughs: A One-Limb Stealth Game Slaps Its Way to PC

Toot Games' My Arms Are Longer Now reimagines stealth as a 3D, joke-forward indie experience centered on a single extendable arm that steals and slaps its way through NPCs. The game emphasizes humor over puzzles, features more than 40 voiced characters, and uses a tube-like limb with forced perspective to preserve its illustrated style after a 2D prototype. It secured publishing with Jackbox Games and is planned for PC release in 2027.

via The Guardian|
#comedy#development#games
Eleven Fresh Albums Highlight Bridgers, L’Rain, Djrum and More
music11 days ago

Eleven Fresh Albums Highlight Bridgers, L’Rain, Djrum and More

Pitchfork’s New Music Friday rounds up 11 new albums out now, featuring Phoebe Bridgers’ Lost Weekend, L’Rain’s Fata Morgana, Djrum’s I Wander, Open Mike Eagle & Kenny Segal’s Doomed!, Sweeping Promises’ You Say I Romanticize, Laura Veirs’ Temple Songs, Hovvdy’s Big World, Everything Is Recorded’s Cut Off Your Nose, Michael Christmas/Chris Crack/Girl Talk’s Don’t Come to My House Sharing Your Location, The Womack Sisters’ self-titled debut, and James Ellis Ford’s Lost in Another World. The piece spans indie rock, folk, R&B, electronic, and hip-hop, highlighting themes like late-night anxiety, fatigue, relationships, and resilience, while noting streaming availability and purchase options.

via pitchfork.com|
#electronic#hip-hop#indie
Metroid Dream Inspires Immortality Studio’s New FMV Horror, Precognition
games13 days ago

Metroid Dream Inspires Immortality Studio’s New FMV Horror, Precognition

Immortality Studio (Half Mermaid) revealed Precognition, an FMV sci‑fi horror about a woman who gains visions of the future via a brain implant and records them as memories. It originated from Sam Barlow’s long‑concealed idea for an FMV Metroid game that proved too dark to pitch, and is described as non‑linear with strong player agency and a notebook‑style approach. Canadian director Brandon Cronenberg is writing, with a release planned for PC, PS5, Xbox Series, and Nintendo Switch 2 in spring 2028. It’s not connected to Samus Aran or a Metroid game, but rather a new, darker standalone experience.

via Kotaku|
#fmv#games#horror
Co-Op Puzzle Hit Big Walk Surpasses 1 Million Sales in Six Days
gaming13 days ago

Co-Op Puzzle Hit Big Walk Surpasses 1 Million Sales in Six Days

Indie co-op puzzle game Big Walk from House House and Panic has sold over 1 million copies in six days across PC Steam, PlayStation, and Nintendo Switch, drawing strong praise (Eurogamer 5 stars) for its chat-driven, open-ended multiplayer and focus on togetherness; Panic celebrated the milestone and highlighted cross‑platform success with a community-oriented vibe.

via Eurogamer.net|
#big-walk#co-op#gaming
Kickstart Your Fields of Mistria Life: Essential Early-Game Tips
games14 days ago

Kickstart Your Fields of Mistria Life: Essential Early-Game Tips

Essential starter tips for Fields of Mistria: upgrade your bag with a Basic Pouch to gain 10 extra slots, avoid pointless selling by saving crafting materials and using the Lost & Found later, talk to every NPC to quickly raise affection, remember you can jump (and swim) to reach hidden areas, enjoy a free bowl of soup at the Inn each day for small health/stamina boosts, check item descriptions for possible museum donations, focus on raising town rank via daily quests, craft storage chests and keep crafting materials for seasonal needs, upgrade your starting sword early, and explore fishing and ranching when ready—most importantly, take your time and enjoy the game’s relaxed pace.

via Kotaku|
#farming#fields-of-mistria#games
Priced as a $200 joke, a Steam game nets $1.38M gross, but leaves the creator with about $2k
gaming21 days ago

Priced as a $200 joke, a Steam game nets $1.38M gross, but leaves the creator with about $2k

An 18-year-old New Hampshire creator released This Game Costs $200 on Steam as a joke, pricing it at the platform’s max; it sold 6,717 copies and grossed about $1.38 million, but 6,707 buyers were refunded, leaving the developer Michael Major with roughly $2,045 after refunds, with most sales coming from China. The Steam page bills the title as a “swindle” and a psychological experiment, and it’s described as a sequel to This Game Costs $10.

via GameSpot|
#china#gaming#indie
Indie Studio MidBoss Files for Chapter 7 Bankruptcy With $823k in Debt
business22 days ago

Indie Studio MidBoss Files for Chapter 7 Bankruptcy With $823k in Debt

MidBoss, the indie developer behind 2064: Read Only Memories and Neurodiver, filed for Chapter 7 bankruptcy with assets of about $2,560 and debts exceeding $823,000 to various creditors, including shareholder loans to founder Matt Conn; the Read Only Memories IP and ongoing projects are listed as assets, but the studio’s future remains uncertain as leadership shifts and restructuring unfold.

via Kotaku|
#bankruptcy#business#gaming-industry
Dave Kendall, Visionary Behind MTV's 120 Minutes, Passes Away
music1 month ago

Dave Kendall, Visionary Behind MTV's 120 Minutes, Passes Away

Dave Kendall, the British-born journalist who created and hosted MTV's influential 120 Minutes, has died; no cause or age was cited. The show launched in 1986 and Kendall hosted it from 1989 to 1992, championing indie and left-of-center acts before they broke into the mainstream. He later worked as a DJ and SiriusXM host, and in recent years lived in Thailand and Indonesia as a Bangkok Post correspondent and environmental advocate. Matt Pinfield called him a 'true believer' who gave a home to music that deserved to be heard, a rare gift.

via Variety|
#120-minutes#indie#kendall
Midyear Magic: 2026's Most Notable Films So Far
entertainment1 month ago

Midyear Magic: 2026's Most Notable Films So Far

Rolling Stone’s midyear pick highlights 10 standout titles of 2026—from Sophy Romvari’s Blue Heron and Lav Diaz’s Magellan to Steven Soderbergh’s The Christophers, Baz Luhrmann’s EPiC: Elvis Presley in Concert, and the sci‑fi blockbuster Project Hail Mary—alongside Exit 8, My Father’s Shadow, Obsession, Seeds, and Yes—demonstrating a year of indie breakthroughs, audacious genre experiments, and lavish spectacle that together map a year of bold storytelling, nostalgia, and surprise discoveries.

via Rolling Stone|
#2026#best-of-2026#cinema