For those who don’t know, Shovel Knight is a KickStarter project that launched just a couple weeks ago on March 14. I myself only first heard about the game when I caught a glimpse of it in the Indie Games Megabooth at PAX East. Combining a …
The crowd-funded, Android-powered Ouya game console finally has a release date: supporters who backed the Ouya project on Kickstarter should start receiving their consoles soon, while everybody else will have to wait until June 4th to get their hands on the experimental indie console.
PAX East wrapped up last night, but those of you unable to attend this year have nothing to worry about. I was on hand to document and detail all of the most important news and got my hands on the latest up-and-coming games. Throughout this week, …
Latchkey Games is a weekly column that takes a look at games that perhaps didn’t quite get the amount of love they deserved: whether it was a game that was panned on its initial release only to become a cult classic, one that stirred the ire …
The upcoming Ouya console is supposed to be focused on free-to-play and indie games, but that’s not stopping the console’s manufacturer from teaming up with Japanese mega publisher Square-Enix. Today SE announced that they’ll be bringing a souped up version of Final Fantasy III to the …
Upstart Ouya is looking to shake-up the console market, and if the incredible response to their Kickstarter is any indication, the big three might just need to start watching their backs. The previously unknown company took to Kickstarter to fund the development of an Android-based console, …
The indie game community is rallying together to put a substantial number of their games on sale next week. Why? To send a message to online retailers and publishers that the issue of pricing should be in the hands of the developer, not some retail or …
Nicalis, the small publisher best known for releasing cult-classic Japanese indie game Cave Story in the West, announced last night via Twitter that the WiiWare port of another beloved Japanese indie title, La Mulana, has been cancelled. Nicalis cited poor sales of other WiiWare titles to …
In the wake of Doublefine’s record breaking success in crowd-sourced funding, it seems like every developer is turning to Kickstarter in order to get their games made. But don’t group Stoic Studio’s The Banner Saga in with the rest of the bandwagon jumpers. If this game …
I-Friqiya, a small Independent developer out of Tokyo, is poised to release their first title, Fuel Overdose, this spring, since opening early 2010. Fuel Overdose is a top-down, almost isometric, battle-racer that has been in development for the last 10 months.
All the way back in 2009 when Microsoft was first showing off their concept of Xbox having indie games, they showed off Dust: An Elysian Tail. That game was never actually released on the service, though it did win best of DreamBuildPLay in 2009. Now it seems …
Being an Xbox Live Indie Game is a tough gig, you have to compete with countless Minecraft rip-offs and controller calibrators, but there are great games there and the Original Apple Jack was one of them. The quirky platformer, by the one-man team at My Owl Software, …