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In: Gaming News|Indie
20 Jan 2010[Originally published on Mod DB, these interviews from Leo Jaitley of Dejobaan Games explores the neat nooks and crannies in indie gaming. First up is a chat with Cliff Harris, developer and founder of the UK-based one-man company Positech Games.] This is the face of a British indie game developer. Examine it. Imagine your hands [...]
The latest issue of Game Informer magazine has a bit of potential bad news for Gordon Freeman fans, casting doubt on the release of Half-Life 2: Episode Three in 2010. window.google_analytics_uacct = “UA-2281360-3″; Specifically, Game Informer’s rumor-centric Loose Talk column notes that there “won’t be any game from the [Half-Life] franchise in 2010, and what [...]
In: Gaming News|Indie
18 Jan 2010window.google_analytics_uacct = “UA-2281360-3″; Are you ever curious about what the future of video gaming is going to look like? Perhaps you envision a world where young people control the actions of prison inmates remotely, as they compete in a gruesome deathmatch? Or maybe it’s world where games that are played with the hands are curtly [...]
In: Gaming News|xbox
18 Jan 2010The top-selling shoot-em up of this console generation is coming to North America, as Aksys Games announces a U.S. release for Cave’s brilliant Xbox 360 gothic lolita shooter, DeathSmiles. DeathSmiles is a scrolling shooter, but instead of piloting spaceships through unknown galaxies, you fly young angels and their demonic familiars through the gothic world of [...]
If you’re as intrigued as we are by Splash Damage and Bethesda’s co-operative FPSRPG Brink, you’ll probably want to check out the video above, which shows the many options you’ll be afforded when customizing your personal freedom fighter. For instance, what kind of full-torso tattoos would like? And how many mohawks do you want perched [...]
In: Gaming News
17 Jan 2010It’s been awhile since we’ve heard anything about GRIN’s “unreleased masterpiece” — a collaboration with Square Enix (and assumed Final Fantasy off-shoot) titled Fortress. An anonymous report released last September claimed the title was currently in the hands of another, unnamed developer. Yesterday, some tech demo footage purportedly displaying the fruits of said studio’s labor [...]
In: Gaming News|Indie
17 Jan 2010The first official trailer for Tyler Glaiel and Jon Schubbe’s Closure is out, a puzzle platformer that is scheduled to be released for both Windows and Mac platforms sometime in 2011. An IndieCade Gameplay Innovation award winner and a PAX 10 showcase selection, Closure is also an IGF finalist in the Excellence in Audio, Technical and Nuovo Award categories this year.
In: Gaming News
15 Jan 2010Here’s a closer look at all eight of Mega Man 10‘s evil robot masters, showing us how the dynamic concept art fared in its conversion to sprites. As you can see, some of the Robot Masters made out better than others during the journey from cartoon art to pixels. Sheep Man, Nitro Man, and Strike [...]
In: Gaming News|Sony
15 Jan 2010Sony today released a number of new screens for upcoming brawler God of War III. Swords and angry men feature prominently. The game, sure to be one of the biggest of the year on the PlayStation 3, will be out in March.
In: Casual|Culture|Gaming News
15 Jan 2010Do you like Alexey Pajitnov’s timeless puzzler Tetris as much as you like succumbing to unrelenting waves of nausea? You’ll probably want to check out the new Flash-based sensation, First-Person Tetris. There’s not much of a learning curve, here — it operates pretty much exactly like the block-dropping puzzler you know and love, only with [...]