Why an up-and-coming indie developer is returning Microsoft’s money

In this week’s newsletter: the creator of All Will Rise standing up to the tech giant –and joining the No Games for Genocide movement • Don’t get Pushing Buttons delivered to your inbox? Sign up here Video games are in a funding crisis. Investor money flowed freely during the pandemic gaming boom, but now the well has run dry. It is increasingly difficult, for indie developers especially, to get the capital to make games. And it is extremely unusual, then, to hear of a developer returning an ...

By Keza MacDonald