Just In: The Indie Game Awards Nominees

Including Expedition 33, Silksong, and Blue Prince.

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November 14, 2025 • Estimated Reading Time: 11 minutes

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These awards will air on Dec 18, just one week after the Keighleys. As you’d expect, this show will focus on indie games, going as high up the scale as AA. That’s right, that means Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 will show up here, too.

You might remember a few weeks ago, we highlighted that over 500 Steam Next Fest games reported using generative AI (which doesn’t account for however many games used AI without self-reporting it on the Steam storefront).

Earlier this week, our writer Don Parsons dove deeper into exactly what this means and how these developers claimed to use AI. Some used it to assist with marketing, while others used it for coding, writing, and voice acting. An overwhelming majority, however, used it for in-game art.

You can see the data and charts in the story on our site, which dives into detail on what sort of art these games used AI for.

It doesn’t get better (unless you’re rooting for AI, for some reason). In a morbid, bleak announcement, Krafton, the “AI-first” company, offered its employees up to three years’ salary if they resign as part of a “voluntary redundancy program.” Basically, they can get paid out to willingly defer to AI.

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The extraction-shooter genre hasn’t seen mainstream success in a long while, but Arc Raiders is shifting that narrative. It has 700k concurrent players as of the report released by Embark Studios, and it’s got serious momentum as we head into the end of the year.

In fact, Embark has a lot of player-friendly updates in store, claiming it will lower prices of cosmetics. It’s already even testing duo-focused matchmaking, a common request in the community.

In stark contrast, Bungie ain’t doing so well with Destiny 2, and it’s made papa Sony upset. It’s not quite a 1-to-1 comparison since they’re different genres, but nonetheless, live-service games live and die off of their communities.

The sequel to the box-office hit will land in theaters in April, and we’ve got a first glimpse at what to expect. You know what I didn’t expect, though? A picture that feels straight out of a Bowser x Peach rule 34 forum. It’s tame, but also surprising.

In other Nintendo news, Pokemon Pokopia, the totally-not-Animal-Crossing game, got a release date, and it’ll hit Switch 2 before the next Mario movie.

Spiritforged will be the second set in Riot’s new TCG venture, which includes a new card subtype: Equipment. There are lots of other new mechanics here, like spending Gold to get a resource called Power, which is a required cost to use certain cards. You can get the full lowdown in our story above.

This new set is coming just as Riot has acknowledged the production and supply issues that have marred Riftbound since its initial launch.

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These employees have signed a letter, alleging that some of their colleagues were fired as part of a union-busting effort. This is coming to us just after Grand Theft Auto VI was delayed (again) to Nov 19, 2026 (that’s literally more than a year away).

Is it 2022? Because Todd Howard is still saying that Skyrim 2 is a long way off. This comes to us from his recent interview with GQ, where Howard also teased that the Oblivion Remastered shadowdrop was a very nice “test run” that “worked out well.” So who’s to say that the next Elder Scrolls won’t do the same? Well, maybe the shareholders.