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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…
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3 Jun 2010window.google_analytics_uacct = “UA-2281360-3″; After the Humble Indie Bundle topped the incredible heights of $1million total sales, the developers involved announced they’d be releasing the source for their games (after a quick code clean-up, of course!). Wolfire’s Lugaru went first, followed by Penumbra: Overture. Gish‘s source was burst open a few days ago. Now Aquaria has [...]
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9 May 2010window.google_analytics_uacct = “UA-2281360-3″; Those of you who already bought the Humble Indie Bundle and regularly check your email will know that Amanita Design’s point-and-click adventure game Samorost 2 was added to the line-up earlier today. Everyone else: the surprise is out! This fresh addition can be downloaded for free if you paid prior to its [...]
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8 May 2010window.google_analytics_uacct = “UA-2281360-3″; Caution: loud music. Here’s a preview clip of Super Meat Boy in action, showing bits and pieces of the new levels designed for Team Meat’s upcoming XBLA platformer (also for Windows, Mac and WiiWare). I’m guessing that the video was made to convince voters to pick their game for a GTTV feature, [...]
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27 Apr 2010Following a semi-depressing seasonal lull in truly outstanding iPhone games, it appears that the indie dev community is starting to make a springtime comeback. Case in point: Kometen, the first iPhone game from Erik Svedäng, creator of Indie Games Fest 2009 grand prize winner Blueberry Garden (available on Steam here). Not a terrible amount is [...]
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25 Apr 2010Here’s a trailer for Nifflas’ new platformer FiNCK (Fire Nuclear Crocodile Killer), due out this May 12th. The game has been in production for a couple of months now, and will feature a level editor to facilitate the sharing of user-created content. FiNCK will not be freeware, but according to Nifflas it will be sold [...]
Regardless of whether or not you’ve played any of Sid Meier’s games, or whether or not you find yourself curious as to how he became a gaming luminary, or whether or not you’ve got 24 minutes to kill — you’ve got to watch Motherboard’s latest documentary. Its focus is on the history of Meier’s game [...]
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13 Apr 2010When Epic offered the Unreal SDK free to all users, it got Crytek to thinking — specifically, thinking about doing the same thing. Speaking to Develop, Crytek CEO Cevat Yerli said that his company is looking to offer a free platform for budding game developers “that will be up to speed” with CryEngine 3. It’s [...]
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15 Mar 2010On the final day of the Game Developers Conference, music composer Vincent Diamante and SCEA sound designer Steve Johnson presented an audio session on the sound and music of Thatgamecompany’s Flower. We’ve uploaded our recording of the full presentation to Vimeo, which can be seen in eight parts. Early on, the speakers transition from a [...]
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15 Mar 2010If you’re a Cave Story fan I think you’re going to enjoy this video! The game is coming out for WiiWare (North America) on March 22nd. Check the Nicalis blog for more information and other goodies, like fan art.