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Sounds Shapes Announces Exclusive Tracks from Musician Beck
Sounds Shapes, the indie game being developed by Queasy Games out of Toronto have made a rather large announcement today. They have officially partnered with alternative rock musician Beck to have three exclusive songs (Touch the People, Spiral Staircase and Cities) in their game. Not too shabby if you ask me. Beck will be added to the [...]
The Cat that Got the Milk: An Abstract Work of Art
On Friday of last week, we sent out a tweet informing indie games that were demoing at Rezzed to give us a shout if they wanted to get some coverage. The first to respond was a game called The Cat that Got the Milk that was developed by a team of four: Ollie Clarke, Jon [...]
Spunky Spelunky is Out Today on XBLA
Today is July 4th, which in the US is Independence Day. For everyone else, it is the release day for Spelunky on XBLA. So far the reviews have been quite good and there has been one overlying theme across most of them: the game is difficult as hell. Spelunky will put you to death on many occasions, [...]
Spelunky Will Be Released on XBLA on July 4
Major Nelson has posted the upcoming schedule for XBLA releases today and Spelunky, created by Derek Yu, is set to be released on July 4th, 2012 for 1200 MS points. Spelunky has been in development by Mossmouth for over three years and has had some minor, sporadic releases online that has gradually created a following [...]
IGF Changes the Rules for the Better
Today, the IGF Chairman, Brandon Boyer, announced a series of rule changes that will be effective immediately for the 2013 festival. For the most, these changes are long over due and will lend more credibility to the Independent Games Festival. Let’s dive right into it. No More Three-peats The biggest change by far is that [...]
Frictional Games Timer has Run Out, and It is a Trailer
Earlier this week, we reported about a timer that was placed in the top left corner of aamfp.com, a website owned by Frictional Games. This timer was set to expire today… and it has. The big announcement? A teaser trailer for their upcoming game called Amnesia: A Machine for Pigs! Not much is shown in [...]
First Peak at What Seems to be Limbo 2
We are proud to say that in one week, two of our 2012 indie predictions came true. The first one was when Frictional Games added a timer in the top left corner of their website AAMFP.com, which is said to be counting down to the announcement of their newest title. This is supposed to happen tomorrow [...]
thatgamecompany Raises $5.5 of Venture Capital; Are They Still Indie?
A pretty impressive announcement has hit the airwaves today with the confirmation that independent game studio, thatgamecompany, creators of flOw, Flower and most recently Journey, have raised $5.5 million to bring their games to multiple platforms. The first thing that came to mind was “OMG, an indie studio has just sold ownership of their studio [...]
Frictional Games Could be Making a Big Announcement this Friday
Earlier this year, I wrote a piece outlining 5 indie game announcements to be expected in 2012. It now looks like this Friday, one of these announcements may be happening. Today, as reported by Indie Game Mag, Friction Games, the makers of Amnesia: The Dark Descent, have placed a timer on their website AAMFP.com inconspicuously in [...]
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