In a year which saw the biggest games honoured and showered in kudos, it’s easy to forget about the indie side of the gaming industry. Small in scope but gigantic in influence, indie games are the backbone of the medium and as Led Zeppelin, they deserve a whole lotta love. The Independent Games Festival (IGF) is one such way to honour the best of the best in the independent games sphere, and they’re doing just that with the 22nd annual IGF Awards on March 18 at the 2020 Game Developers Conference.

Fantasy Flight Games announced the bad news that it will be letting go of several employees as it looks to close its interactive division.

For years now, developers have been looking to get a proper union organised and recognised, with Game Workers Unite being an organisation that has led the charge for worker rights in the gaming industry when it was formed two years ago. One of its leaders, Emma Kinema, has joined forces with the Communication Workers of America to launch the Campaign to Organize Digital Employees (CODE), which may just be the best effort yet to improve working conditions in the US and Canada.

Intel’s NUC (Next Unit of computing) modular PCs have always been intriguing. That you can upgrade a tiny machine by slotting in a new card to beef up the CPU and memory as you would a graphics card is great. Diminutive and modular, Intel’s NUC ideas have been held back by the inability to use more powerful graphics cards – …

Battlestate Games have cited their reasoning behind the decision is due to the game’s lore and difficulties with the animations.

The Brits love them some stamps, with the time-honoured craft regularly getting special collections that make philatelics all hot under the collar. This year will see official Royal Mail stamps released that honour Britains magnificent contributions to video games, spanning decades and genres of cult classic and mainstream properties

Yesterday, AMD revealed the Xbox Series X in all its glory, gleefully showing off the system’s ports and how they’re configured on the machine. As AMD is the company supplying Microsoft with the chips that’ll power the next generation Xbox, it was a safe assumption that AMD would be privy to unreleased information Unfortunately, AMD bought the render on the cheap from TurboSquid.com, and it wasn’t a legitimate look at the ports the system would offer – something AMD had to admit with a bit of embarrassment.

A tiny home for your tiny digital avatar! Here's a look at the next Stuff Pack for The Sims 4, which focuses on downsizing your real estate footprint.