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Limbo coming to iOS on July 3rd
Playdead, the independent game studio based in Copenhagen, has send over a press release announcing that their award winning puzzle, action adventure, Limbo will be available worldwide on the App Store Wednesday, July 3rd, in your timezone, at $4.99. For the iOS...
Best of Steam Greenlight (June 2013)
By now every gamer is familiar with Steam Greenlight, Valve's voting system that allows developers to submit their game to the community for approval where if the Steam community overvotes a title then this is being added to the Steam catalogue. In Greenlight you will...
Daedalic’s Memoria coming in August
Daedalic Entertainment has announced that its traditional point-and-click adventure game Memoria will be landing in August 2013. Memoria continues the tale of bird catcher Geron, protagonist of the prequel Chains of Satinav, and also gives you the chance to take the...
CastleStorm coming to Steam on July 29
Zen Studios is bringing their 2D physics destruction meets tower defense brawler CastleStorm, to Steam on July 29th for $10. The game features a story-driven single player campaign as well as local and online co-op/multiplayer modes. Controlling the battle in real...
Zeboyd Games announces Cosmic Star Heroine!
Zeboyd Games, of Cthulhu Saves the World and Penny Arcade Adventures: On the Rain-Slick Precipice of Darkness have just announced their next game, a 3D sci-fi adventure called Cosmic Star Heroine! Here’s a short plot teaser about Cosmic Star Heroine!: "Alyssa L’Salle...
The Spiral Groove Bundle from Indie Royale is live
The Spiral Groove Bundle is this week’s tantalising collection of hard-hitting titles from Indie Royale. The four games featured in the bundle are Rebellion’s first person shooter Sniper Elite V2, steampunk shoot ‘em up Gatling Gears from Vanguard Games, Bloody...
Hotline Miami released on PS3, PSVita
Hotline Miami, the award winning, brutal, top down indie action game from Dennaton Games and Devolver Digital is available today on the PlayStation 3 and the PS Vita for £7.29. The PS3 and PS Vita version introduces trophies and leaderboards for each level, ranking...
Spicy Horse Games unveils OZombie
Spicy Horse Games, the developer that gave us Akaneiro: Demon Hunters as well as American McGee's Grimm and Crazy Fairies have announced OZombie, a narrative-driven action-adventure game in an alternate version of L. Frank Baum's famous Oz universe, and revealed that...
TopWare Interactive releases Iron Sky: Invasion on iOS
TopWare Interactive, alongside Reality Pump Studios announced today the release of its space combat simulator "Iron Sky: Invasion" for the iPhone and iPad. In addition to the full game, a free LITE-version is also released giving you a first glimpse into the deep...
Steam Trading Cards leaving Beta on June 26th
Valve's new trading card game, Steam Trading Cards, exits beta and becomes available to all on Wednesday, June 26. The Steam Trading Cards system was announced last month and, since then, it went on to become quite popular, as it rewarded users with cards that could...
Classic steampunk shooter The Chaos Engine is getting a remake
Hotline Miami and Serious Sam publisher Devolver Digital has dropped a new teaser trailer for The Chaos Engine, a remake of the acclaimed 1993 Bitmap Brothers top-down shooter. The game is built upon the original Amiga code, whilst adding in several new features such...
Meganoid 2 – Grandpa’s Chronicles now available
Dutch Indie studio Orangepixel's first venture into PC games Meganoid 2 - Grandpa’s Chronicles was just released for Windows, Mac and Linux the developer has announced. Meganoid 2 which comes with a full 200 very challenging levels starts of easy to get you back into...
Super Splatters coming to Steam on June 26th
SpikySnail Games, an independent studio out of Israel, have just announced that their physics-based action puzzle Super Splatters is coming to Steam on June 26th for PC and Mac. In Super Splatters you are challenged to creatively burst the Splatters against arena...
Gangster Games announces open world adventure Forgive Me
Gangster Games, an indie developer from Bologna, revealed their first foray into game development titled Forgive Me, an open world game that focuses on the story of five suicides that have made the ultimate gesture of love, to despair, to racial prejudice, for heroism...
Papo & Yo Review
Papo & Yo first launched as a PlayStation Network exclusive, garnering much critical praise for its approach to telling a dark, personal story through a bright and colorful adventure game in a way that is unusual in gaming. The game is a metaphor on the cost of...
Life Goes On releases new demo and trailer
Life Goes On, a puzzle platformer built in the Unity Game Engine that gives players a fresh look at life and death in video games through comically morbid puzzles and challenges that can only be overcome by dying, has just released a new trailer and demo. In Life Goes...
Deus Ex Machina 2 gets playable demo
A playable demo for Deus Ex Machina 2, the reimagination of the classic 1984 Game Of The Year, Deus Ex Machina, a pioneering multimedia video game developed by Automata, has just been released. It's browser-based, running on Unity webplayer, and features the first two...
Team17 announces Worms Clan Wars
Team17 has just announced that at the PC and indie games show, Rezzed, this weekend (22nd-23rd June) they will unveil their forthcoming release Worms Clan Wars. No other information have been revealed for the time being apart from the game's logo and that Worms Clan...
Rival Games unveils The Detail
Finnish developer Rival Games today unveiled The Detail, a classic 2D point & click adventure game with a noir theme, emphasizing heavily on story and styled after crime drama series as seen on TV. "What if you could change the outcome of a dark crime drama?The...
Thunder Wolves launches on PSN, XBLA,
Thunder Wolves is now available on the XBLA and PSN, Hungarian developer Most Wanted Entertainment has just announced. Thunder Wolves is a helicopter game inspired by '90s arcade games that puts you in the hot seat of an experienced helicopter group that has survived...
Hotline Miami 2: Wrong Number unveiled
Hotline Miami 2: Wrong Number , the epic finale to 2012’s blood-soaked hit Hotline Miami, was officially announced today. The game picks up several years after the events of Hotel Miami and in terms of gameplay it is similar to the first, but will "tell the story in a...
17-BIT announces Skulls of the Shogun: Bone-a-fide Edition
Seattle game developer 17-BIT today announced the release of their award-winning Skulls of the Sogun on the Steam platform for the PC, supercharged and reborn as Skulls of the Shogun: Bone-a-fide Edition featuring the full campaign and multiplayer modes from the...
InterWave launches Kickstarter and Greenlight campaign for Dark Matter
InterWave Studios, creators of the critically acclaimed FPS/RTS hybrid Nuclear Dawn, that won the 2012 DGA Best Original Game Design award, announced today a dual Kickstarter and Steam Greenlight campaign that will run simultaneously for their upcoming DRM-free game...
GOG.com launches Summer Sale offering Torchlight for free
To celebrate the launch of the Summer sale where GOG.com will offer more than 500 games on sale for at least 50% off, for more than two weeks, the digital distributor is offering Torchligh, Runic Games' single-player masterpiece, for free until 12.59 pm GMT on 20 June...