Players Should Catch Up on Indie Titles

It’s easy to feel like videogames go into a kind of hibernation during the first few months of the year. During the winter the release line-up typically becomes depressingly sparse and news regarding major releases trickles in at a snail’s pace. There’s good reason for this. Publishers work hard to stack the autumn months with their biggest games, hoping to capitalize on the holiday shopping blitz and generate the kind of buzz that will leave their titles fresh in the minds of critics and editors preparing their game of the year lists. And after all of that activity there usually isn’t much left to fill the void left between the end of December and the spring months, which offers the next financially viable release window for bigger titles.