Indie game reviews without hype, developer interviews with the people who actually shipped, hardware roundups stress-tested in real studios, and industry analysis grounded in shipped code — not speculation.
Two-person studio Forge & Lantern spent four years building a game about grief, geometry, and the spaces between notes. We played it for thirty-eight hours across three platforms. Here's what we found — and what the studio's lead engineer wants you to know about the choices behind the silence.
Read the full reviewReviews, interviews, and field notes from the past three weeks — written by people who play, build, and break things for a living.
Co-founder Anya Sato walks us through the engine pivots, layoffs, and one stubborn lighting bug that nearly killed their debut title. Honest, technical, and rare.
From the $60 KBDfans Tofu65 to the $310 Mode Sonnet. We soldered, swapped switches, and ran them through 90 hours of Unreal and 200 hours of writing to find the real winners.
Data from 1,200 shipped titles since 2021 suggests the genre isn't collapsing. It's bifurcating. What that means for studios, players, and the next round of layoffs.
A single developer, a 12-hour runtime, and one of the most inventive inventory systems we've played this year. The flaws are real. The craft is undeniable.
We measured ping, jitter, and packet loss across six sub-$100 routers running on a 300/30 cable line. Two of them punched far above their weight. The results surprised us.