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In: Gaming News| Indie
9 Mar 2010As Steam shows no signs of slowing its dominance of digital distribution for PC (and Mac!), it’s only natural that more niche services would arise; not really to oppose, but to compliment Valve’s service. Enter Desura, a distribution platform similar to Steam, save for one important aspect: It’s focused on independent game developers.
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In: Gaming News| Indie| xbox
8 Mar 2010Indie developer Derek Yu’s Spelunky is making the platform leap from PC to Xbox Live Arcade some time this year, a release date we’re starting to believe courtesy of a quartet of new screen shots.
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The procedurally generated action adventure platformer—not to be confused with Spelunker HD for PlayStation Network—which Yu describes [...]
In: Gaming News| PC
2 Mar 2010Yesterday, Valve issued an update to its 2007 first-person puzzle game Portal, adding exactly one new Steam achievement and 26 audio transmissions that players could listen to via in-game radios. So started an impressive puzzle.
Instead of listening to those transmissions in-game, members of various web forums, including the Steam, Facepunch and Something Awful forums—who we [...]
In: Gaming News| Indie
2 Mar 2010 Independent game stars like World Of Goo’s creators, Braid’s Jonathan Blow and Flower’s Kellee Santiago have revealed Indie Fund, an ‘angel’-style funding source for indie game makers.
According to the Fund’s official website, “Indie Fund is a brand new funding source for independent developers, created by a group of successful indies looking to encourage the [...]
In: Gaming News
2 Mar 2010Due out this spring for the PC, PS3 and Xbox 360, Blur is a like Project Gotham Racing meets Mario Kart… if they two had a baby in the 70s.
And we’re giving out spots for the March 8 beta for the flashy racer right here, right now.
But first, a couple of very important things you [...]
In: Gaming News| PC
1 Mar 2010Valve’s brilliant first-person puzzler Portal has just been updated. Not normally a big deal, but when that update adds a new, mysterious Steam achievement and some hidden radio transmissions and this is Valve we’re dealing with, we’re right to be curious.
Today’s Portal update, officially, features the following addition: “Changed radio transmission frequency to comply with [...]
In: Gaming News
27 Feb 2010The sixth developer diary for Star Wars: The Old Republic has been released and it features a new (yet familiar) location players will be able to visit when the MMO finally goes live. Devastated by the sinister Sith Lord Darth Malak in Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic, the post-apocalyptic world of Taris will [...]
In: Gaming News
25 Feb 2010 It’s been nine months since THQ officially announce the Warhammer 40K action RPG Space Marine, and we’re finally getting the first screenshots for the game. Are they worth the wait?
Announced in May of last year and shown in footage form at E3 a month later, Warhammer 40K: Space Marine seems to be a title [...]
In: Culture| Gaming News
25 Feb 2010Carnegie Mellon University Professor, Jesse Schell, dives into a world of game development which will emerge from the popular “Facebook Games” era.
In: Apple| Gaming News
24 Feb 2010Yesterday’s announced update to Valve’s Steam digital distribution service came with a surprise—hints that the Half-Life developer may be planning to add Mac OS X support to the currently Windows-only software.
Steam forum members dug through newly released files from the recently launched open beta and dug up a handful of Mac OS X-specific graphics, like [...]