100% free skyward fun! No install, runs smooth at 60fps, totally free. Hope you enjoy the flight! 🕹️ https://beep8.org/b8/beep8.html?b8rom=9f77d0d57b00e286db160d374055e4e7.b8& #game #indiedevhour #pixelart #gameart #gamedev

🦎 One solo dev. A $5.99 hide-and-seek lizard game. 2 months of work, zero marketing budget. Now: 7M copies, #1 on Steam, outsold Forza Horizon 6. The little guy literally camouflaged his way past every AAA on the chart 🚀 @lemorion1224 #indiedev #gamedev

🪦 Ninja Theory announced a new Hellblade on the Xbox showcase stage → shut down 9 days later. The spotlight is officially a tombstone. Meanwhile the industry just posted record revenue. Cool, sustainable system. #Xbox #gamedev #layoffs

🪦 Xbox spent ~$68.7B buying studios just to throw them overboard. The new CEO's "100-day reset" = up to 1,000 layoffs the moment the fiscal year ends June 30. Record profits, record layoffs. 📉 #Xbox #gamedev #gaming #layoffs

14 months and out, right as the layoffs land. The AAA exec chair now churns faster than a free-to-play playerbase. Funny how a "reset" never resets the executives. Indies just keep shipping. 🪦 #gamedev #Xbox

Wario64@wario64.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Xbox Game Studios boss Craig Duncan steps down. Chief of staff Louise O’Connor also departs www.thegamebusiness.com/p/xbox-game-...

🪦 Ubisoft closed Winnipeg & Belgrade and gutted Barcelona—380 jobs gone in its 6th restructuring of 2026. @Ubisoft has more layoff waves than a rhythm game. Barcelona's whole job now? Rainbow Six. Record revenue up top, pink slips below. 📉 #gamedev #Ubisoft #gaming

🪦 Destiny 2 gets its tombstone today, and Bungie's thank-you for a decade of grind is layoff wave #3 — survivors shipped off to keep the sinking Marathon afloat. Record revenue, record pink slips. Sony math at its finest 💸 #gamedev #Destiny2 #gaming

🎮 Couch rivalry, settled. One bad touch and it's an own goal in front of your mates — Super Arcade Soccer 2026 hits Steam June 11, World Cup kickoff day. ⚽ Wishlist now on Steam: store.steampowered.com/app/4653510/... #SuperArcadeSoccer #SteamLaunch #WorldCup2026

Super Arcade Soccer 2026 on Steam

Fast-paced, classic arcade football with a next-gen feel and pinpoint control. The 90s soccer feel you loved, rebuilt with modern physics and a fresh cartoon style. Just in time for the 2026 World Cup...

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🏊 AAA: $200M for photorealistic water. Indie devs: "what if peeing in the pool ended the world?" 💀 Lazy River — co-op shooter on a space waterpark where one bad pee zombifies every guest. 4 yrs in dev, shown at Day of the Devs. This is exactly why we're here. #indiedev #gamedev

🪦 Destiny 2 gets its final update tomorrow — no Destiny 3, just layoffs and a one-way ticket to Marathon. Bungie torched $766M to prove live-service eats its own. RIP the golden goose. #gamedev #Destiny2 #Bungie #gaming

🚀 The indie dream: 230K concurrent players. The fine print? Bots farming your in-game economy, servers melting & reviews screaming "banned for nothing." Task Bar Hero is speedrunning the nightmare side of going viral. 🐛 #indiedev #gamedev #IndieGame

🐛 A solo dev turned your unplayed Steam backlog into the boss fight — the more you paid, the more damage it deals (just like real life). The games you never opened are the immortal royalty. Indie guilt, now a genre. ☕ #indiedev #gamedev #roguelike

⚽ Kickoff is coming. Super Arcade Soccer 2026 lands on Steam June 11 — the day the World Cup begins. PC & Mac. Wishlist now, get pinged at launch 🚀 store.steampowered.com/app/4653510/... #SuperArcadeSoccer #Wishlist

Super Arcade Soccer 2026 on Steam

Fast-paced, classic arcade football with a next-gen feel and pinpoint control. The 90s soccer feel you loved, rebuilt with modern physics and a fresh cartoon style. Just in time for the 2026 World Cup...

store.steampowered.com

🛠️ Giles Goddard — the @chuhailabs.com founder who actually coded Star Fox 64 — ships Wild Blue Skies on Aug 13. Xbox/PS5/PC. The Star Fox successor Nintendo can't be bothered to make, built indie by the guy who made it. Poetic. 🚀 #indiedev #gamedev #StarFox

🏴‍☠️ Microsoft leaked its own Xbox Showcase. Fable, Gears: E-Day & Clockwork Revolution all spotted in the Xbox Game Pass app days before SGF — by a random Redditor. The leakers came from inside the house. Best community manager of 2026 is some dude on r/Xbox. 🤡 #Xbox #GameDev #SGF2026

🪦 RIP Warzone on PS4/Xbox One — delisted June 4. @callofduty.com can't keep last-gen alive, but Infinity Ward ports MW4 to Switch 2 "pretty smooth." Priorities. @nintendo.com #CallOfDuty #Warzone #Switch2 #GameDev 🎮

💸 Valve hikes Steam Deck OLED $200 overnight. 512GB → $789. 1TB → $949 (+46%). Excuse: 'rising memory costs' and the Strait of Hormuz closure. The Deck itself 'hasn't changed' — just costs $200 more. @valvesoftware.com #GameDev #SteamDeck #PCGaming 📉

🛠️ Yacht Club Games (~20 people) ships Mina the Hollower tomorrow — already 2026's highest-rated game (93 Metascore). 4 years and a Kickstarter to dunk on every $300M AAA budget out there. The indie math keeps math-ing. 🚀 #indiedev #gamedev #MinaTheHollower

🎮 Epic reveals UE6 — and shows it off with... Rocket League. A 2015 game built on UE3. Migration roadmap: 'soon™'. UE4 devs watching their projects gather dust 👀 @unrealengine.com @rocketleague.com @epicgames.com #GameDev #UnrealEngine #UE6 #IndieDev

🚀 Starminer hit Early Access today. 4 devs at CoolAndGoodGames shipping physics-simulated 150,000-ton warships that mine asteroids — until your heat signature wakes the aliens. Meanwhile AAAs take 400 people to ship a delayed reskin. 🛠️ #Starminer #gamedev #indiedev

🎮 IOI just dropped 007 First Light — 88 Metacritic, the best Bond game in 14 years. A studio famous for a bald assassin out-Bonded Hollywood while Amazon/MGM still can't even cast the next 007. @ioi.dk @007firstlight.com #GameDev #007FirstLight #JamesBond #Hitman 🍸

💀 Cozy farming sim where the serial killer is randomized AND romanceable. Grave Seasons: Stardew Valley with a body count. Out Aug 14, Game Pass D1. Tend crops. Date murderer. 🚀 #indiedev #gamedev #pixelart #cozyhorror #indiegames

💸 Microsoft pays $250M to settle the AP7 lawsuit over the Activision deal. Shareholders get ~$0.30/share. Bobby Kotick keeps his $400M parachute. "Without admitting wrongdoing," obviously. @microsoft.com @activision.com #GameDev #Microsoft #Activision

🪦 @Bungie ends Destiny 2 live development on June 9. Third layoff wave incoming. No Destiny 3 greenlit. @PlayStation paid $3.6B for this. "Forever" lasted 12 years — gym-membership energy. 🔥 #gamedev #Bungie #Destiny2 #layoffs

⚽ SUPER ARCADE SOCCER 2026 — GIVEAWAY ⚽ 1 Steam key here on BlueSky (+ 3 more on X) 🔑 Winners: BETA today + full launch Jun 11 🏆 ✅ Follow 🔁 Repost ⭐ Wishlist on Steam 💬 Tag a gamer friend Ends Sat May 30 · Winners same day 🔗 store.steampowered.com/app/4653510 #SuperArcadeSoccer2026

Super Arcade Soccer 2026 on Steam

Fast-paced, classic arcade football with a next-gen feel and pinpoint control. The 90s soccer feel you loved, rebuilt with modern physics and a fresh cartoon style. Just in time for the 2026 World Cup...

store.steampowered.com

🏆 CAR GUYS GIVEAWAY — WINNER 🏆 Thanks everyone! The winner is: @lazerhus.bsky.social Sending you the Steam key by DM. 48h to claim. #CarGuysGiveaway 🚗💨

gamedevstream.bsky.social@gamedevstream.eurosky.social · 3mo ago

🏁 CAR GUYS GIVEAWAY 🏁 Giving away 1 Steam key of Car Guys, my multiplayer racing game with missiles, shields and chaos at 60 FPS. How to enter: ✅ Follow me 🔁 Repost 💬 Tag a gamer friend Ends Fri May 22 · Winner May 23 #CarGuysGiveaway 🚗💨 store.steampowered.com/app/3451500/...

🛠️ Solo dev in 2019: "I'll make a better Sims." 7 years and 14 devs later, Paralives hits Steam Early Access on May 25. 1M wishlists waited. No paid DLC, ever — only free updates. The chad indie roadmap. 🚀 #indiedev #gamedev #lifesim #IndieGames

📉 @ubisoft.com calls €1.3B loss + 7 games killed + 6 delayed + 1,200 layoffs (7K more coming) + stock −18% "one of the most ambitious transformations in company history." Translation: leap of faith, no haystack. 🪦 #gamedev #Ubisoft #AssassinsCreed

🪦 Quantic Dream just killed Spellcasters Chronicles 3 months after launch. Lifetime peak: 888 players. Layoffs incoming. But Star Wars Eclipse 'continues as planned' — entering year 5 of that promise 💀 #GameDev #LiveService #QuanticDream

🏴‍☠️ Thief OG Paul Neurath ships Thick as Thieves for $4.99 today. 2 maps, 16 missions, ~4hrs of stealth. Press calls it "incomplete." We call it Early Access wearing a hoodie. Indie hustle, respect ☕ #indiedev #gamedev #immersivesim