Lunchbreak Dispatchhttps://games.samcbarth.com/news/Short, sourced write-ups on the gaming industry, indie games and browser games, with links to every original source.en SAG-AFTRA adds a pitch agreement for indie game demoshttps://games.samcbarth.com/news/sag-aftra-pre-funding-pitch-agreement-games/https://games.samcbarth.com/news/sag-aftra-pre-funding-pitch-agreement-games/ Sat, 07 Nov 2026 12:00:00 +0000A new union agreement lets small developers hire SAG-AFTRA performers for demos and vertical slices made to raise funding, with negotiable pitch fees. Nintendo reports higher first-half profit on lower saleshttps://games.samcbarth.com/news/nintendo-first-half-profit-up-sales-down/https://games.samcbarth.com/news/nintendo-first-half-profit-up-sales-down/ Thu, 05 Nov 2026 12:00:00 +0000Nintendo's April to September net profit rose 11% to 220.9 billion yen while sales fell 12% to 966 billion yen. Xbox names six Indie Selects for November 2026https://games.samcbarth.com/news/xbox-indie-selects-november-2026/https://games.samcbarth.com/news/xbox-indie-selects-november-2026/ Wed, 04 Nov 2026 12:00:00 +0000The ID@Xbox team picked six indie games for November, including Graveyard Keeper 2, Warhammer 40,000: Boltgun 2 and Ratatan. Toy maker Takara Tomy launches Enjoyn Games, an indie publishing labelhttps://games.samcbarth.com/news/takara-tomy-enjoyn-games-indie-label/https://games.samcbarth.com/news/takara-tomy-enjoyn-games-indie-label/ Wed, 04 Nov 2026 12:00:00 +0000Takara Tomy has entered game publishing with Enjoyn Games and three party titles for Steam, starting with a burger-stacking social deduction game. Quebec holds its first Buy a Quebec Video Game Day on November 14https://games.samcbarth.com/news/buy-a-quebec-video-game-day-november-14/https://games.samcbarth.com/news/buy-a-quebec-video-game-day-november-14/ Wed, 04 Nov 2026 12:00:00 +0000La Guilde du jeu video du Quebec is promoting games made in the province with a one-day event and a portal listing more than 400 titles. Indie publisher says 11,000 wishlists turned into a 15-player peakhttps://games.samcbarth.com/news/steam-wishlists-wheel-make-it-15-players/https://games.samcbarth.com/news/steam-wishlists-wheel-make-it-15-players/ Tue, 03 Nov 2026 12:00:00 +0000Publisher 2 Left Thumbs blamed a Steam approval delay and a flood of low-effort AI games after Wheel Make It peaked at 15 concurrent players. Xsolla buys GamePix, a browser games platform with 10,000+ titleshttps://games.samcbarth.com/news/xsolla-acquires-gamepix-browser-games/https://games.samcbarth.com/news/xsolla-acquires-gamepix-browser-games/ Wed, 21 Oct 2026 12:00:00 +0000Commerce company Xsolla has acquired GamePix, which publishes and distributes web games and ports PC and mobile titles to the browser.