This year's Retro Remakes Competition is now over. The winners have yet to be announced, but you can already download and play all 50 of the entries. The range of games is immense, with pretty much anything available, from a Tetris and Metroid hybrid (!), to a 3D Super Mario Kart clone, a homebrew Nintendo [...]
Continue reading...Sunday, December 14, 2008
Some of you might have previously heard of Age of Decadence but I'm sure that most of you have not, so I'll first let its developers introduce it, before going ahead with the good news. The Age of Decadence is an isometric, turn-based, single-player 3D role-playing game set in a low magic, post-apocalyptic fantasy world, inspired [...]
Continue reading...Saturday, December 13, 2008
Spike TV and Mountain Dew are running a contest slash lottery, which gives you the chance to win a free digital copy of a critically acclaimed indie game for XBLA, PSN, WiiWare, or even Steam. All you have to do is submit your name, e-mail address and game preference, then perhaps opt out of the [...]
Continue reading...Friday, December 12, 2008
That's right folks. Just a few days after celebrating its first birthday, The independent gaming gem Aquaria has been updated to version 1.1.1. The most prominent new feature is the native support for widescreen resolutions, but the game sees a host of other improvements like extra graphics, optimisations, GUI streamlining and other functional or simply [...]
Continue reading...Thursday, December 4, 2008
When I got a press release telling me that a new indie game was added to Steam, and that its main purpose was to “experience life from the perspective of a drop of water,” I knew I had to try it. I-Fluid, developed by French studio Exkee, sounded intriguing, to say the least. Then again, [...]
Continue reading...Thursday, July 17, 2008
I have a soft spot for independent games, and this year's E3 summit placed a few on display at the IndieCade booths on the show floor. I had a look at a few as-yet-unknowns, but my favorite this year was unquestionably a charming little puzzle-platformer called The Misadventures of P.B. Winterbottom. A few of the [...]
Continue reading...Tuesday, May 20, 2008
Good news for huge publishers and homebrew XNA developers alike: sooner or later, your Xbox Live Arcade filesize limit should see an upgrade from the current pitiful 150MB to a slightly more reasonable 350. Though it's probably still not enough space for even a highly-optimized copy of Portal, the update will at least mean that [...]
Continue reading...Monday, May 12, 2008
In an interview with Wired's Game|Life, Shigeru Miyamoto paid tribute to the American spirit of innovation with his statement that "America has always been better at creating unique products." This might seem odd coming out of the mouth of Miyamoto, he of endless creativity, but the point he is trying to convey is that most [...]
Continue reading...Thursday, May 8, 2008
Back in October, Everyday Shooter asked: "What if god made you a little glowing dot, and all the music in your head had nowhere to go... but out?" At the time, I recall replying: "I don't have a PS3; stop tempting me." But today, the 2007 Independent Games Festival multiple-award winning shooter hits Steam at [...]
Continue reading...Tuesday, March 25, 2008
Indie game developer Farbs obviously asked himself what happened if one spends a gaming lifetime never properly blowing the dust out of their NES cartridges. The answer? ROM CHECK FAIL, an insane mashup of classic 8-bit games in the vein of WarioWare. Here's what it's like:
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Sunday, December 14, 2008
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