![]() ![]() Sure, occasionally an indie surprise garners a large enough community to hit the mainstream (see Stardew Valley, or Vampire Survivors), but those occasions are very, very rare. Our audiences desperately want to read about those things, we love to write about them, and there are only so many hours in the day to write, so write about them we do.Īnd yet, the unfortunate inevitability of this is that it often leaves out the truly massive body of work being done by smaller, lesser-known or even unknown creators who don’t have the IP, the budget, the thousand-person studios, or the names to already be known by a mainstream audience. I’m talking about the Marvels, the big PlayStation exclusives, the prestige TV shows, the Marios. With a large audience that rightfully expects us to cover all the biggest beats across games and entertainment every day, combined with the massive size of both industries, it’s inevitable that the vast majority of our resources go toward writing about things people already know they’re interested in. Indie game coverage is always a tricky question to answer, especially on sites like this one. Which means I get to take a moment to wax poetic about what my corner of this initiative is actually all about. My little column today joins a much larger IGN initiative to bring editorial columns of all varieties into the spotlight. I’m proud of that coverage up to today, but today I’m extra proud, because my quiet year-plus efforts are about to get much, much louder.
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