Tagged: indie
Since its launch in August 2012, Steam Greenlight has had an average of three games posted to the service every day. That can make it hard to keep track of the numerous potential releases, but a new update helps solve… Read More »
Dear Esther turned heads when it hit Steam earlier this year. Hardly a game at all, in the traditional sense of the word, Dear Esther had players leisurely strolling around a mist-veiled island, listening to a narrator as they walked. After… Read More »
A merger between two Australian mobile developers – Firemint and IronMonkey – was announced by Electronic Arts yesterday. Now it turns out that an interesting side story regarding Infinite Interactive, makers of the Puzzle Quest franchise, was overlooked. Firemint acquired… Read More »
Plenty of worthwhile indie titles have found success on Steam, and that number is sure to grow with the newly announced Steam Greenlight. Greenlight is a system that puts the fate of indie releases in the hands of the Steam… Read More »
Update: Robin Hunicke, executive producer at thatgamecompany, has also left to join Katamari Damacy creator Keita Takahashi at social game developer Tiny Speck. Journey, the latest offering from developer thatgamecompany, has been receiving high praise since its release earlier this… Read More »
Good Old Games (GOG) is known for its DRM-free distribution of PC classics, but now the site is looking to expand. According to a company press release, new indie titles will be added to its catalog in an effort to… Read More »
Kickstarter, the successful online funding program for small creative businesses and individuals, dropped onto a few videogame headlines last month after the surprisingly unsurprising success of Double Fine’s adventure project, which ultimately raised over $3 million. Despite the recent surge in… Read More »
It would seem that Xbox LIVE has been losing steam on the downloadable games front in the past year or so. That sentiment was expressed by 2D Boy’s Ron Carmel with an in-depth report last year regarding Xbox LIVE Arcade,… Read More »
Originally released as a Source engine mod in 2008, Dear Esther is an experimental first-person game in which players traverse an uninhabited island, discovering voiced-over letter fragments along the way. A few years ago, former DICE employee Robert Briscoe decided… Read More »
A press release from indie developer New Life Interactive has revealed a release date for Cell: Emergence, an upcoming downloadable title. The game will be coming to Xbox LIVE Indie Games, GamersGate, GameStop PC Downloads, Green Man Gaming, Playism, and… Read More »
