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In: Gaming News|Indie
28 Jun 2010Finally, I can show off what’s been keeping me so preoccupied for the past week (and all morning as well!), as we announce the opening of the 2011 Independent Games Festival and explain all the changes we’ve prepared for its 13th year. Chief amongst those is the addition of a new category for iPhone/iPad, DS, [...]
A few months back, I mentioned Game Seeds, the card game created by Utrecht School of the Arts, Monobanda and Metagama to help game designers brainstorm both character design and entire games, by playfully combining their specific mechanics. The post quite happily got far more attention than I would’ve imagined, and (especially after I’d posted [...]
In: Culture|Gaming News
23 Jun 2010Pac-Man creator Toru Iwatani brought a rather incredible historical artifact to the recent NLGD Festival of Games in the Netherlands: a notebook full of sketches from the original design of Pac-Man. The thirty-year-old sketches show that Iwatani had a pretty good idea of how the mazes and Pac-Man sprite would work even in the pen-and-paper [...]
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What is a game? Evolution embedded play into the very fabric of being human, so this is a question that has been pondered since the dawn of man. It may be somewhat baffling, then, that we are still unable to reach a consensus. Searching the web for the “definition of a game” will unearth many [...]
In: Gaming News|Nintendo
15 Jun 2010If you’re sick of your bland old M’s, try this other one. We have showfloor awesomeness for you to watch with a hands-on demo of Metroid: Other M. It’s hot, it’s sexy, it’s salty, it’s everything you could hope for and more. Yes, I am very tired and I’ve let my hyperbole gland completely take [...]
In: Gaming News|PC
15 Jun 2010Portal 2 is coming to the PS3! That big bombshell was announced during Sony’s press conference today and along with that announcement came this new teaser above. That mean robot bitch is still alive and she wants to play again, in the na…
Oh, ilomilo. Even though we still have absolutely no idea what’s going on gameplay-wise, after watching this new trailer, we can’t help but fall prey to this game’s immeasurable charm. It looks like you have to move boxes around to reunite the game’s pair of roly-poly protagonists, but we’re sure there’s more to it than [...]
In: Gaming News|Indie|xbox
7 Jun 2010Crossfire is the second in a series of Xbox Live Indie Games arena shooters from Radiangames – the first being JoyJoy which was released recently and became a top 6 finalist in the Dream.Build.Play competition.
The trick behind Crossfire is the abil…
Let’s not spoil anything. Instead, let’s just say that Square Enix’s CGI work for Deus Ex: Human Revolution is really paying off. You should watch the trailer above right now. And then watch it again. Now that you’ve done that, we’ve got some actual news: It looks like Deus Ex: Human Revolution has been confirmed [...]