The Latest Breaking News from Mike Rose

'Video games are cooked' — founder of No More Robots condemns gen AI in gaming and says 'from a publisher perspective, it's mega annoying'

The generative AI genie is out of the bottle, and the founder of an indie game publisher believes it's too late to turn back.

TechRadar · Apr 8

Papers, Please creator Lucas Pope no longer feels comfortable talking about work-in-progress games: 'the situation just feels different'

"It's getting slurped up by AI or people are gonna copy it, or something else like that."

PC Gamer · Apr 6

"Weird and bats**t" Steam launch of two different indie games with the same name ended in 3x more sales than expected: "It all absolutely popped off"

Piece by Piece is doing well, thanks to Piece by Piece

GamesRadar · Mar 24

"Why does Valve allows this?": Indie publisher laments losing Overwhelmingly Positive Steam review score to off-topic rant, replies "please never, ever play any of our games"

"Please go refund the game, and then crawl back into the hole you came from"

GamesRadar · Dec 8, 2025

"There was only 1 game on all of Steam with more reviews than us at 100%," roguelike dev says, and now 54 clown emojis adorn the troll who broke the streak: "Game is amazing. I just like to be different"

"I haven't reported it myself nor do I expect it to be taken down"

GamesRadar · Nov 25, 2025

Indie games need to be "cheap as f*** or expensive as hell," says publisher warning of industry "death cycle"

"Steam is making more money, but like 50 percent of that revenue is being generated by 1 percent of the games"

GamesRadar · Aug 9, 2024

Descenders Next is the follow-up to my favourite extreme biking sim, but it won't have bikes at launch

It'll hit Steam and Game Pass in 2025, with an initial focus on boarding.

PC Gamer · Aug 6, 2024

"Xbox is mistaken," says indie publisher teasing "what's next" for its mega-hit biking roguelike, because "Descenders 2 does not exist"

Though an unnamed follow-up was confirmed earlier this year

GamesRadar · Aug 1, 2024

Publisher of Studio Ghibli meets Stardew Valley life sim Spirittea says the failure of Steam's competitors is hitting indie games hard

No More Robots lead delves into why the failure of PC launchers is hurting indies

GamesRadar · Nov 23, 2023

Developer reveals that their Xbox Game Pass deal allowed them to delay the game and add over a hundred hours more content

Mike Rose of No More Robots shared insight into the effect of Xbox Game Pass on the publisher's most recent game release, Spirittea.

Windows Central · Nov 23, 2023