Proteus Heading To PS3 With Premiere Event
The award-winning PC indie title, Proteus, is coming to PS3 on October 29th in NA and October 30th in EU. The curious 1st-person explorer was released on PC back in January to rave reviews and a cult following. To celebrate the game coming to PS3, a live-action trailer has been…
Monaco Updated With Zombies And New Story Content
Pocketwatch Games have updated Monaco: Whats Yours Is Mine with new content. Instead of adding a new character, new mode or new missions, they have added all three. In the completely free update, Pocketwatch have introduced a new zombie mode, a new blonde character and a brand new mini-campaign titled…
Neil Gaiman’s Wayward Manor Has A Spooky Teaser
The Odd Gentlemen, the team behind sepia-toned puzzler The Misadventures of P.B. Winterbottom, have given famed author Neil Gaiman the chance to create a game. Wayward Manor is being crowdfunded through the official site, with tiers of awards for you to languish over as you decide how much you can afford…
Escape Goat Developer: PC Indies Rely On Steam To Survive?
Recently Magical Time Bean's Ian Stocker has spoken about his happiness over being chosen for the Steam Greenlight initiative where his title Escape Goat saw release through this platform. Stocker has noted that PC indie developers are under serious strain outside of the Steam environment; "To survive as a PC indie dev, you really…
Capcom Bringing Dustforce To Consoles In 2014 – Announcement Trailer
Dustforce was released on Steam in 2012, and has since garnered a cult-following of hardcore enthusiasts, for good reason. The game is an ultra-hard 2D platformer featuring the Dustforce, a troupe of fast moving acrobatic cleaners out to rid the world of dust and dirt - in style. The game…
Self-Published Xbox One Titles Have Access to Any Payment Model
Speaking at PAX Prime Chris Charla, portfolio director for digital games at Microsoft has told gaming site Joystiq that the ID@Xbox program will allow all payment models. This means that indie developers are free to make their games as free-to-play with micro-transaction titles or traditional buy for an upfront price title…
Kingdom Of Knights Kickstarter Is Now Live
Animus Interactive has now officially begun its Kickstarter campaign for Kingdom of Knights, a new town-building massively multiplayer real time strategy game. The developers at Animus are looking for $30,00 from RTS fans, and are also shooting for a 2013 release of the game. Those who back the project will…
Sony Role Out Plethora Of Indie Games For Current And Next-Gen
Sony has always been loud and proud about how much they love indie devs. Since the success of ThatGamesCompany with Flow, Flower and Journey, Song have been making a lot of noise to make sure everyone knows they are the place to go for console indie titles.At this years Gamescom…
GOG.com Adds Indie Submission Portal
GOG.com, the digital distribution outlet that prides itself on all its content being available DRM-free, has today announced that it will be allowing developers to submit their game more easily, as well as enter into a lucrative partnership. Developers can get an advance on royalties, as well as direct feedback…
Crowdfunding Uncovered: Project Phoenix Kickstarter Fully Funded in Under 9 Hours
Project Phoenix is a Kickstarter unlike any you ever will have seen. It features talented individuals form all corners of the game industry (with credits including several Final Fantasies, The Elder Scrolls: Skyrim, Valkyria Chronicles, L.A. Noire, Diablo III, Halo 4, Crysis 3, the list goes on) coming together to…
Team Meat Trolls A Really Stupid Con Artist
Too....stupid...cannot...compute... Sometimes you hear about someone being stupid on the internet and you laugh and then brush it off. Then you see something like this and you then realise "Man, it can get stupider".The gist of this is that the creators of the amazing Super Meat Boy, Edmund McMillen and…
Ouya Matching Funds For Crowd-Funded Exclusives
The guys over at Ouya are trying their best to give gamers more of a push to lay down £99.99 for their android based console. With many of the complaints being that the console has no games, Ouya is attempting to rectify this by tempting devs on crowd-funding sites. "The…
Lead Jungle Announced, Described as a ‘2D Side-Scrolling Squad Based RTS ‘
A new indie games described as a '2D side-scrolling squad based RTS game' has been announced, entitled Lead Jungle. The game is about guiding a squad of 4 elite commandos through a hazardous jungle, full of hazards to overcome. Each squad member possess a unique skills and weapons set, and…
Sparpweed’s Ibb & Obb Wins Indie Showcase Award At Develop In Brighton
The winners of the third Indie Showcase, which was sponsored by Unity, have been announced at this year's Develop in Brighton Conference which was held, funnily enough in Brighton. There were three awards up for grabs: The People's Choice, The Editor's Choice and finally the Indie Showcase Overall Winner which…
Skyward Collapse Review
Skyward Collapse Players 8 Turn-Based Strategy Windows | Mac Skyward Collapse isn't like many strategy games that immediately spring to mind. Instead of taking one group and dominating the world, Skyward Collapse asks you to take two factions and play them off one another. Akin to playing chess…
Sir, You Are Being Hunted Screenshots Are Spiffing
Nothing says "English Summer" like a spot of Pimm's, biscuits and hunting a human through the forest. If that sounds like the kind of activity you enjoy then Sir, You Are Being Hunted is a game you may enjoy. Bad Robot's kickstarter game from November last year offers another slant…
Cube World Alpha Available For The Patient
Cube world is a rather promising looking little game. A multiplayer open-world RPG may not sound amazing, but throw in voxel graphics and the world being entirely procedurally-generated and that may be a winner. Initially conceived by one man, wollay, the game looks a lot like a more developed 3D…
8 More Games Have Been Approved by Steam Greenlight
The 8 New titles that have just been added to Steam are: Cognition: An Erica Reed Thriller Day One : Garry’s Incident Guncraft Homesick In Verbis Virtus Super Motherload Vector Verdun Some very interesting titles here, make sure you check them out if you get the chance! Do you support…
8 More Games Have Been Approved by Steam Greenlight
The 8 New titles that have just been added to Steam are: Cognition: An Erica Reed Thriller Day One : Garry’s Incident Guncraft Homesick In Verbis Virtus Super Motherload Vector Verdun Some very interesting titles here, make sure you check them out if you get the chance! Do you support…
Microsoft No Longer Charges Developers to Patch Xbox 360 Games
Microsoft has been the centre of scrutiny recently with all of the strange and odd policies for the Xbox One and the sudden retraction of said policies from their consoles. One of these was the need to charge indie developers to update their games on Microsoft software. Recently however, Microsoft has changed…
The PlayStation Vita Has Captured the Hearts of Indie Devs
That's a lot of devs and a lot of games... Indie games have shot up in popularity in recent years so it is great to see some of the best titles coming to handheld! Stuff like Thomas is Alone is great and it is really nice to be seeing…