Telltale released Poker Night at the Inventory on November 22, 2010 to much critical acclaim.The game, that featured four crossover characters: Tycho from the Penny Arcade web-comic, Max from the Sam & Max franchise, the Heavy Weapons Guy from Team Fortress 2, and Strong Bad from the Homestar Runner web series, was praised for its addictive gameplay and extremely humorous dialogues but...

Launched in 2009 Kickstarter has funded over 100,000 launched projects ranging from indie films, music and comics to journalism, and what interests us the most, video games. The company also noted that of those, 43.96 percent have been funded successfully. Not bad for such a young service. Kickstarter does not only serve as a method of financing for developers, but it is also a way to unite...

Klei Entertainment the studio behind Shank, and Mark of the Ninja, has a reputation for fun and addictive games. Their latest effort is Don’t Starve, a Tim Burton-like survival simulation that started off as a little known Google Chrome game, but managed to gain popularity through word of mouth recommendations and support from the Twitch TV community. “We tried to do this as kind of...

We first heard of Monaco in 2010 when the game became the big winner at the Twelfth Annual Independent Games Festival Awards snapping two awards the Seumas McNally Grand Prize and the Excellence In Design award. Monaco: What’s Yours is Mine is a game about pulling off the perfect heist by sneaking, stealing, failing to sneak and making great escapes across a variety of beautiful time-trial...

Ludum Dare (to give a game in Latin) was founded by Geoff Howland, and held it’s first competition in April 2002. For those unfamiliar with the event, it’s a 48 hour solo competition that challenges game developers to create a game centered around a core theme that is selected through a series of community votes. Ludum Dare 26, once again attracted developers from all sides of the...

Slender: The Arrival, the much anticipated sequel to ParsecProductions‘ first-person horror phenomenon Slender: The Eight Pages launched on the PC on March 26th. The game was co-developed by the original game creator Mark Hadley and Blue Isle Studios who promised that The Arrival would be even more terrifying than their original creation, featuring more levels, improved visuals, and an engaging...

Ludum Dare the recurring competition where you’re encouraged to make a game from scratch in 48 hours, happened again this weekend. The latest competition was the 26th and was held from the 26th of April until the 29th and the theme these talented developers had to illustrate in their efforts was Minimalism. The accelerated game development event has just finished collecting games for its 48-hour...

We first heard of Evoland during Ludum Dare 24, the accelerated video game development competition where the participants are given 48 hours to create a game from scratch fitting a theme announced at the start of the contest. The contest’s theme was evolution and through 1400 participants it was Nicolas Cannasse’s effort that gained the top spot among other talented developers and...

When on October 30, 2012, LucasArts was acquired by The Walt Disney Company through the acquisition of its parent company Lucasfilm in a deal for $4.05 billion, many industry insiders predicted that this was the beginning of the end for the innovative game developer. This happened on April 3, 2013, when Disney confirmed that LucasArts would cease to operate as a video game developer; and that...

Northway Games is an indie studio home to husband and wife developer duo Colin Northway and Sarah Northway. Back in 2008 Colin wrote the successful Flash gameFantastic Contraption while Sarah in 2011, released Rebuild which has since sold over 100,000 copies. Colin and Sarah are both from BC, Canada and spend every summer there, but in the last three years they ‘ve also lived in Turkey,...

Until a few months back the truth is that not so many people were familliar with Cart Life, but over the last few days it is the talk of the indie town as the game won the Seumas McNally Grand Prize from the Independent Games Festival beating indie gems like Faster Than Light, Hotline Miami, Kentucky Route Zero and Little Inferno. Those not familiar with the game Cart Life is monochrome retail...

The Independent Games Festival was established in 1998 by the UBM Tech Game Network to encourage the rise of independent game development and to recognize the best independent game titles, in the same way that the Sundance Film Festival has honored the independent film community. The IGF offers finalists both global exposure and more than $50,000 in cash prizes to each year’s winners, in...

The Bit. Trip games were developed by Californian outfit Gaijin Games for the Nintendo Wii, Nintendo 3DS, and the PC and were also ported on the iPhone, iPod Touch and iPad. Each game revolves around the adventures of a character named “Commander Video”, and features “a crazy mix of 80s aesthetics and modern game design. After six Bit. Trip games in a row, Bit.Trip Runner,...

Unless you were living in a cave for the past 20 years there is a chance that you might never heard of Lara Croft, the beautiful, intelligent, and athletic English archaeologist-adventuress, and the Tomb raider franchise, which since its release in 1996 has sold millions of copies worldwide, gaining a valuable place in Hall of Gamers, World Guinness records and most importantly in every gamers...

Stoic is an independent game developer based out of Austin, Texas, formed in early 2012 by Alex Thomas, Arnie Jorgensen and John Watson after working together for half a decade on Star Wars: The Old Republic. For their first project, titled The Banner Saga, a single player turn-based strategy trilogy steeped in viking culture, the studio looked for a $100,000 funding via a Kickstarter campaign...

Arcen Games entered the PC indie scene in 2009 with their indie cult classic AI War: Fleet Command. They continued with The Zenith Remnant, the first full expansion for AI War; Tidalis, an innovative block-based puzzle with casual appeal and hardcore depth; Children of Neinzul, a micro-expansion for AI War with all profits benefiting the Child’s Play charity, of which Arcen is a platinum...

The Bridge was created by Ty Taylor and Mario Castañeda. It was started as a project requirement for Ty Taylor’s Master of Science degree in Computer Science at Case Western Reserve University, and shortly after the game was started, Mario Castañeda took the role as the sole artist for his Art minor capstone project at Case Western. The production of The Bridge has continued even after Ty...

According to Wikipedia Proteus comes the adjective protean, which has the general meaning of “versatile”, “mutable”, “capable of assuming many forms”. This is the name, the development duo of Ed Key, a coder in the games industry for 9 years and David Kanaga, a musician and composer, chose for their game, an experimental audiovisual discovery game which has...

Antichamber is a game like no other. Looking at its screenshots it may remind you of Portal, but the truth is that this game shares little with Valve’s acclaimed title. Alexander Bruce’s game is a puzzle game based on non Euclidean geometry. Those not familiar with the term, non Euclidean geometry is the branch of modern geometry in which certain axioms of Euclidean geometry are...

When navigating in the digital selves of the XBLA we rarely notice a strategy title worth of our attention. Indie devs 17Bit wanted to change that working for more than 3 years in developing Skulls of the Shogun, a mix of sorcery and strategy where players meet and join forces with vibrant ghost-samurai warriors, magical animal-monks, and samurai generals on the way to capture the Skulls of the...