"Indie Devs Just Proved AAA Publishers Are Useless" an interesting video by Veteran Joystick about indy games vs AAA games, and the state of the game industry in 2025
Happy AI Bubble Burst! All the signs are here, everybody is seeing it, But this time it won't be like the 2000 dot com bubble or the 2008 subprime crisis, as countries debts are through the roof after the pandemic and the Russian war on Ukraine so that no one will be able to prevent it from happening, Hence this one will hit different π Hold on to your hats! ππ§’
"How A Tiny Studio Embarrassed The Gaming Industry" a video by Akshon about the game Clair Obscur - Expedition 33, a masterpiece
Clair Obscur's first game, Expedition 33, is an absolute beast of a marvel, a game stunningly beautiful, breathtaking in every aspect, and most certainly the most beautiful game of the year, with the best original music, and probably the best game of the year as well. But the biggest surprise is probably that in order to achieve all this, the studio does not contained more than 30 persons, when for AAA games usual big studios dedicate multiple thousands (Electronic Arts, Ubisoft, etc) So, what is the takeaway? That passion plus dedication go a long way when dealing with artistic projects (of any kind).