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itch.io Recommends: new friends, hidden friends, and dazzling critique

It’s Tuesday which means it’s time for another roundup of great games! This week, we’ve got a delightful hidden object game, a promising mashup of two of Nintendo’s classics, and the return of one of our favorite zines. Yeah, it’s… Continue Reading →

Celeste is one of our favorite games of 2018. Here’s why we love it.

What are the games you find yourself coming back to? Is it your favorite game from when you were a child? Is it the intriguing but flawed experience nobody but you seems to understand? Maybe it’s an arcade-style classic you’re… Continue Reading →

itch.io Recommends: A Detective Frog, a Grizzled Detective, and Beach Date!

Welcome back to the itch.io Blog, everyone! We were out for most of last week, so there weren’t any posts, but we did have the Black Friday Not-Sale to keep you occupied. Did you pick up any new projects? Anyway,… Continue Reading →

Announcing the itch.io Black Friday Not-Sale!

What are you doing on Friday the 23rd? Getting up to buy a new TV at 4am? Skip the lines and support charity in the itch.io Black Friday Not-Sale! What’s a not-sale? It’s pretty simple: we’re not asking developers to… Continue Reading →

itch.io Recommends: Fresh new picks to ban your midweek blues

New week, new games! This week we’re back with a whole squad of new games for you to play and fall in love with. Need another reason to look down below? All of the games we’re highlighting this week have… Continue Reading →

itch.io Recommends: beautiful, horrific, pizza games

If you’re reading this it means that you managed to survive the spookiest holiday. Congratulations! Celebrate your continued not-being-scared-to-death with a cornucopia of new games! This week we have a painted visual novel, a demo for a wacky pizza adventure,… Continue Reading →

October was a month full of game jams. Here are some of our favorites

I don’t know what it is about October, but it looks like everyone and their mom decided to host or participate in a game jam. As always, you can check out all of the past and current jams over on… Continue Reading →

Post mortems are here on itch.io! Write them, read them, and support developers!

You may have seen the update to our blogging system a few weeks back that expanded the types of devlogs that we support. Now there are official tags for tutorials, culture pieces, and what we’re talking about today — post… Continue Reading →

itch.io Recommends: Some games to get you started in the #itchHalloweenSale

The Halloween Sale is in full swing for another few days (it’s going until Thursday at 10am PST) but with hundreds of games on sale it might be a little intimidating to wade through them all. Paralysis of choice and… Continue Reading →

Announcing the itch.io Halloween Sale and itch.io Selects Bundle!

Gather round children. Tonight we have a tale of fun and frights in the itch.io Halloween Sale! Scare up some deals on your favorite games from now until November 1st at 10am PDT. Hundreds of games are already on discount… Continue Reading →

Get your game on with the GitHub Game Off!

Get ready to get busy with the annual GitHub Game Off. That’s right, the internet’s largest git repository is back with one of the year’s largest game jams and you’re invited to take part. Get your game-making hat on because… Continue Reading →

How CrossCode modernizes classic design: an interview with Felix of Radical Fish

As I mentioned in our Games of the Week last week, CrossCode was a game that took me by surprise. Underneath its classic 16-bit exterior lies a deeply modern hack-and-slash with a shockingly complex story. I reached out to Felix,… Continue Reading →

itch.io Recommends: even more Halloween games!

We don’t usually do this over here at the itch.io blog but this week we’re double-double dipping. Yep, it’s buckwild over here. Instead of just recommending games once this week, we’re doing it twice. But where does the second instance… Continue Reading →

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