Category Archives: indie

Rezzed 2013 is the UK’s biggest indie and PC expo, showcasing panel sessions featuring Obsidian’s Chris Avellone, and DayZ creator Dean Hall, along with gameplay of Total War: Rome 2, Dreamfall Chapters, Project Eternity, Sir You Are Being Hunted, Wildstar and more. You can watch it all live this weekend.

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Microsoft may find that its costliest Xbox One mistake is a refusal to embrace console indie development, warns Patrick Garratt.

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Escape Goat 2 will allow players to move back and forth between multiple single-screen rooms as they solve new kinds of puzzles.

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Zen Studios will give away its new Pinball FX2 table Sorcerer’s Lair to all Steam users from June 21. Destructoid reports the table will be free indefinitely rather than as a timed promotion. If the new table puts you back in the Wizard mindset, a couple of new premium tables will arrive on the same day – Marvel Civil War, Fantastic Four and Paranormal will be $3 each.

Loading Studios has released an early demo of its in-development, first-person tower defence effort, Space Nomads. You can download the demo from the game’s newly launched Indiegogo campaign, which is after CAD $60,000. Be aware that it is probably far from representative of the finished product, but if it takes your fancy the indie is offering a number of incentives to help out with the Linux, Mac and PC title.

Arcen Games is celebrating the fourth anniversay of its cult classic AI War: Fleet Command with an all-new DLC expansion and a special bundle edition with all the content release to date.

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Pay what you want for a collection of excellent indies available cross-platform with no DRM, and playable on your Android device.

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Indie Royale has released the Chosen 2 Bundle which features the following five titles selected by a Twitter, Facebook and Google+ poll: Really Big Sky, Eufloria, Runespell: Overture, Cthulhu Saves the World and Breath of Death 7. The bundle also comes with a selection of bonus soundtracks . If you pay $7 or more: you also get Disasterpeace’s chiptune album: Rise Of The Obsidian Interstellar. Check out the bundle through the link.

Last week during E3, Valve announced seven offerings had been passed through Steam Greenlight.

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Shadowrun Returns will be released on PC and tablets in July, after originally being slated for a June release.

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Microsoft’s ecosystem across Windows and Xbox formats isn’t encouraging the influx of indie-to-small developments as it should, former Microsoft Game Studios exec Peter Molyneux has cautioned.

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Microsoft has announced that State of Decay holds the somewhat mysterious title of “fastest selling original game ever on Xbox Live Arcade”.

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Missed out on Alexander Bruce’s mind bending puzzler Antichamber? You’re in luck, because the non-euclidean puzzler is only $10 on Steam today, down 50% from its normal price.

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Vlambeer co-founder Rami Ismail had his backpack stolen during Sony’s E3 mixer at the Figueroa hotel Wednesday night. According to Ismail, the backpack contained an Asus laptop, two iPads, two Vitas, a Kindle, European-US outlet converters, and “enough power cables to power E3,” he told Joystiq.

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Limbo developer PlayDead has released a trailer for PS Vita, showing off gameplay from its handheld port. Warning, it’s mighty bleak for a Friday.

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Oddworld co-creator Lorne Lanning has explained why his ‘New ‘N Tasty’ remake of Abe’s Oddysee will not hit Xbox 360 or Xbox One in a new interview. In short; Microsoft still isn’t letting developers self-publish on its platforms, so he’s not buckling.

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As promised, Planetary Annihilation has opened itself to Steam Early Access – but at what cost? Actually, I’ll just tell you what cost: $90.

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This week’s Humble Bundle sale stars 11 bit Studios, developer of Anomaly Warzone Earth, which also happens to be the headline game. The DRM-free, cross-platform, pay-what-you-want package also includes Anomaly Warzone Earth: Mobile Campaign, Sleepwalker’s Journey, Funky Smugglers and – for those who pay more than average – a bonus copy of Anomaly Korea and a pile of digital content. As ever, you decide where you money goes – charities, indie devs, the organisers or a split between all three.

Keita Takahashi and Robin Hunicke are working together again, reuniting one of the industry’s most awesome bromances.

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I just woke up and there’s a report on a Vita game called Floating Cloud God Saves the Pilgrims in HD in my in tray. Grab a timezone-appropriate beverage and let’s figure this out together.

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