Awesome. No, really, perfect. Seriously… it’s great. Everything about the video game industry right now is great, ID@Xbox director Chris Charla tells GamesRadar+ at the Game Developer Conference 2026, and especially when it comes to indie games.
That latter point is inarguable – indie games seem to keep outperforming the most megalithic budget, with titles like Mewgenics, which acted as the highest-rated game of 2026 at one serendipitous point, or Slay the Spire 2, which destroyed its release date competition on Steam the way a mouse destroys a block of Swiss cheese. The rest of the games industry doesn’t seem quite as lucky.
He explains, “We’re in a golden age for indies, and we’ve been in a golden age for indies for almost 20 years. That summer of arcade in 2008 with Castle Crashers and Limbo – that ushered in a golden age that just hasn’t stopped. And the creativity you see downstairs from developers from all over the world, from all different places in their development journey – first game, fifth game – is, like, it’s unbelievable.”
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