Happy Scott Pilgrim EX release day to all who celebrate and happy almost birthday to these 33 March games! We share a curated game release calendar for free on Patreon every month, because frankly there are too many good games coming out to keep track of and somebody's gotta do it.
If you're looking for something light, it's Pokemon night! To quote Matty, this is either the best we ever do or the worst it'll ever go!
We ride historic on the victory road!
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LEGO Voyagers key art. One red and one blue LEGO piece are side by side next to a satellite and a rocket.; each one has one large eye and they're looking at each other.
Julie takes a smiling selfie with Nate while they walk outside in a park.
We're live on Twitch! Join us for some classic VGG co-op as we play LEGO Voyagers together to celebrate Nate and Julie's 12th anniversary and 6th streamiversary! 🫶 www.twitch.tv/naetoid
Narrative Innovations: Personal Storytelling in the Indie Game Landscape. Featuring Abhi, Julian Cordero, Tim Dawson and Wren Brier. Jan 29 8-9pm PT
Join @wrenegade.bsky.social and @ironicaccount.bsky.social for a panel at Sundance Collab talking about personal storytelling in games, narrative design, world-building with @brownmoney.bsky.social of Venba & Julián Cordero of despelote
Full details here:
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Happy Half-Life: Decay Monday. @naetoid.bsky.social is live with our pal Sviddy on their channel!
www.twitch.tv/svideotheque
Finalists for the 2026 Independent Game Festival Awards have been announced, with Baby Steps picking up the most nominations at five.
Grand Prize nominees include Baby Steps, Blippo+, HORSES, Angeline Era, Perfect Tides: Station to Station, and the newly announced Titanium Court.
Games launching this week ‼️
DuneCrawl | 1/5
Death Machine; StarRupture (Early Access) | 1/6
ODDCORE (Early Access) | 1/7
Pathologic 3 | 1/9
These and more, with a primarily #IndieGame tilt, in our free monthly game release roundup on Patreon.
2025 was brutal for games media, but I'm seeing some glimmers of hope as worker-owned sites like @aftermath.site, @rascal.news, and @giantbomb.bsky.social have carved out vital spaces in the games community.
Earlier this year, I made a huge Indie Games Media starter pack for y'all. Let's celebrate.
A post by c.a.t.y.a.y that reads, "I wonder what my art could've been if I didn't quit". Iggy responds, "I wonder what it will be if you start again"
Going into 2026, a reminder for everyone who's fallen off the creative wagon, game dev, writing, art, music, whatever, no matter how long:
We are so honored and excited to announce the winner of VGG's 2025 Game of the Year award...
CONSUME ME!
Congratulations to @qdork.bsky.social, @apthomson.bsky.social, @frogfungus.bsky.social, Violet W-P, and @codatrigger.bsky.social for making such a special piece of art.
WATCH THE VIDEO!
HAPPY VGG GOTY REVEAL DAY
A collage of the key arts from the following games: Hades 2, Dispatch, Split Fiction, Wanderstop, Clair Obscur: Expedition 33, Consume Me, Many Nights a Whisper, Demonschool, Look Outside, and Goodnight Universe. They are all 2025 Game of the Year nominees for Video Games are Good.
A screenshot from Light Up the Town. A snowy path is decorated with candy canes, presents, wreaths, santa hats, and snowflake lights and is strung with holiday string lights in various colors.
The dad from Light Up the Town — a tan ferret in a tan, collared jacket — looks at his child. His eyes are alight with the reflection of a crate of holiday string lights.
It's time for our end-of-year stream! 🎄 twitch.tv/Naetoid 🎄
We're announcing our Game of the Year winner and VGG community-picked GOTY, and unwinding with some cozy holiday decorating in Light Up the Town. Then, we'll be taking a break from streaming until 2026!
We spoke to a dozen professional concept artists who are currently or have previously worked in game development about whether generative AI image tools have made their jobs any easier.
Zero said it did. Most said it made things harder.
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We're excited! We've got a live watch party going in the VGG Discord. ❤️🔥
Come watch our friends and please give if you're able! Today's charity stream supports Outside In in Portland and Bridge for Youth in Minneapolis! 💜
A graphic that says "Watch my official co-stream - The Game Awards - Live Thursday 7:30 P ET / 4:30P PT / 12:30A GMT"
We're live now co-streaming The Game Awards (pre-show has begun)!
🔗 twitch.tv/Naetoid
Wholesome Snack is tomorrow! ✨💗✨
Tune in at noon PT / 3 pm ET / 9 pm CEST for approximately 30 minutes of joyful, thoughtful, and hopeful games! We hope it brightens your day ~
Find out where to watch (as well as a full list of all games featured after the show is complete) at wholesomegames.com!
Angeline Era is OUT NOW!!!
🔍Every level hidden in plain sight…
🗺️… chart your own path through the world!
⚔️Tons of thrilling combat, mysterious places…
👼… and a soul-shattering story!
GET IT HERE!!
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Game debts of color Expo + Gdc festival of gaming by informa 2026 scholarship March 9th - 13th 2026 San Francisco applications open until December 22nd
GDC 2026 SCHOLARSHIP APPLICATIONS OPEN 📣
Our alumni say it best!
🗣️"This opportunity allowed me to connect with other marginalized game designers, who helped me navigate challenging experiences in AAA & continue to act as mentors for me."
✏️ www.gamedevsofcolor.org/scholarship
#GDC2026 #gamedev
10-hour yule log be damned. 3-hour ILA: A Frosty Glide is our new cozy winter ambience of choice.
New review up on VGG for @magicrainstudios.bsky.social's small, snowy, and glide-y open world.
Things slow to a crawl during the back half of December, but we managed to fill up the monthly game release calendar nonetheless! Look forward to a busy first two weeks of December. Check out 30+ games releasing this month in our free Patreon post!
🚨 Creator Day is LIVE! 🚨
For the next 24 hours we are waiving our platform fee! Creators will get the most they can from each transaction.
Support your favorite developers and check out over 15,000 projects participating in our Black Friday sale
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Many Nights a Whisper has been nominated as VGG's Game of the Year!
The nominee line-up is amazing and we're proud to see our game among them. Thank you! 💫
Credits for Brent Porter (3D art lead) and Catherine Menabde (2D art lead) are shown here. There's a lengthy description of what they did, with a pastiche of various Demonschool characters underneath, messing around with a computer.
We did something different with the credits for Demonschool. We used this format: name, title, lengthy description of what they did. Often you see credits in games where you don't know what the credited developer was actually responsible for. We wanted to give people proper, actual credit.
🎮 VIDEOVERSE fans! 🕹️
You can create your own avatar via the official VIDEOVERSE Picrew! Can we spread these little faces across the internet? 😄
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sneaky arting with @videogamesaregood.bsky.social
come hang out!!
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A collage of the key arts from the following games: Hades 2, Dispatch, Split Fiction, Wanderstop, Clair Obscur: Expedition 33, Consume Me, Many Nights a Whisper, Demonschool, Look Outside, and Goodnight Universe. They are all 2025 Game of the Year nominees for Video Games are Good.
And that's all of our Game of the Year nominees for 2025!
We love this selection of games so so much, it's the most indie tilted our selection has been in years and that's nuts considering we are who we are.
We hope you watch the video, play the games, and keep supporting these teams!
Two women leap out of a rift splitting the scene in two diagonally. In the upper left, a sci-fi scene explodes with flying cars and purple lit up armor adorning the short black haired woman who jumps toward it. In the bottom right, a full fantastical world of giant mushrooms and large vines is showcased. In the bottom left, a badge signifies that this game is a 2025 VGG Game of the Year nominee.
Split Fiction is yet another co-op masterpiece and @hazelightgames.bsky.social cannot stop nailing the exact vibes they set out to nail every single time.
It's nuts. We love it. We love them. Keep doing it.
Our full nominee video: www.youtube.com/watch?v=d7Nw...
A young girl winks and smiles while eating a piece of buttered toast. The game's title, Consume Me, is stamped on an oval and various versions of herself as pieces of fruit populate the background. A badge sits in the upper right signifying that this game is a 2025 VGG Game of the Year nominee.
No game in 2025 has better showcased the power of empathy in gaming than @qdork.bsky.social and team's Consume Me.
This semi-autobiographical emotional rollercoaster is powerful, silly, and an easy GOTY nominee.
Our full nominee video: www.youtube.com/watch?v=d7Nw...
A team of leather-bound warriors stand in the ruins of a city, facing off against a giant woman who is face down, hair draped over her face, crying. Some of the mfloat, some of them wield weapons. They're ready for a fight. The game's name, Clair Obscur: Expedition 33, sits at the top. A badge is stamped in the upper left that signifies this game is a 2025 VGG Game of the Year nominee.
Everyone's said their piece about @sandfallgames.bsky.social's Clair Obscur. What we want to emphasize in this nomination is how beautifully weird this game is.
It embraces the goofiness of the JRPGs that inspired it and we love it for that.
Our full nominee video: www.youtube.com/watch?v=d7Nw...
