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The CatLands demo is now live, offering a cosy landscape puzzle game where you match blocks to solve relaxing levels, then grow a small village as you play (with cats to collect along the way).

G2 Esports, one of the world's most decorated esports organisations, and Theta Labs, the leading blockchain-powered decentralised cloud provider for AI and media, today announced the launch of an AI agent for G2's global fan community across multiple competitive titles including League of Legends, Counter-Strike 2, VALORANT, Rainbow Six Siege, and Call of Duty.

By Artem Shkafenko, Head of Marketing at Upscale Studio. There is a growing trend among indie developers to skip publishers and self-publish directly to consoles. I work in console publishing, and I often see solo developers asking: “Why should I share revenue with a publisher? I can just buy a …

Crimson Capes is out now on PC via Steam, inviting players to step into a 2D sword-and-sorcery world built around mastery, tension, and discovery.

Chashu Entertainment and indie.io are proud to announce that Sands of Aura will debut on the Nintendo Switch, Xbox X|S Series, and PlayStation 5 on February 26, 2026.

For the first time ever, the annual Quebec Games Celebration Steam sale, organized by Montreal incubator/accelerator Indie Asylum in partnership with La Guilde du Jeu Vidéo du Québec, is getting its own dedicated showcase!

Leading games Quality Assurance specialist Testronic has announced a series of senior leadership appointments across its European Centre of Excellence, further strengthening its operational depth, commercial leadership and long-term growth strategy.

Taking place on the evening of Wednesday 15 July at The Brighton Dome, the Star Awards will once again bring together the game dev community to celebrate the creative excellence of game makers behind the best games of the previous 12 months.

22cans has released the first full gameplay trailer for Masters of Albion, a God game reimagined by Peter Molyneux.

MOVE Summit, Scotland’s animation and VFX gathering, returns this year to the historic Pleasance Courtyard and other Edinburgh venues from 18th - 21st February 2026, now taking place over four days rather than the usual three.