Archive | January, 2012

5 Expected Indie Game Announcements

Last week, we spoke about the 8 Best Upcoming Indie Games for 2012, this week BIG wants to look at five indie game developers that are most likely going to announce their next indie project. Come early 2013, we will look back at this article and see how well we fared. Wish us luck! 1- [...]

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Poll Stats Week Two: Last Call for Votes

Over the last couple of weeks, the community was being polled to uncover their most anticipated indie game of 2012. However, all fun things must come to an end which means there are only a few more days to cast your vote. The polls currently stand at: Retro City Rampage: 30 Votes Fez: 4 Votes [...]

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HBO Picks Up Indie Game: The Movie

Yesterday, January 22, 2012, producer Scott Rudin and HBO acquired the remake rights of Sundance Festival movie called Indie Game: The Movie. The film, created by Canadians Lisanne Pajot and James Swirsky, explores the journey indie game developers take to accomplish their personal project on limited funds and without the help of large game studios. [...]

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Poll Stats of Week One

To coincide with the publication of our 2012 Upcoming Indie Game Releases, BIG decided to run a poll to find out what the community thought would be the top indie games to watch out for this coming year. So far, after about ten days of being live, the results have been favoring a Canadian indie [...]

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Q.U.B.E Returns Indie Fund Investment in 4 Days

Breaking news from the indie industry today. Q.U.B.E, the firstĀ Indie FundĀ game to be released, returned the initial investment in only four days. This is awesome news for indies around the world who may not have the capital to turn their project into reality. There were many skeptics around who thought Venture Capital could not work [...]

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8 Best Upcoming Indie Games for 2012

BestIndieGames.net is very excited to feature our favorite indie games for the coming year. With all the indie game success in 2011 with the launch of Bastion, Frozen Synapse and Terraria, developers have their work cut out for them in 2012. This is BIG’s early look at what we think will be the eight best [...]

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