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From developers QCF in Capetown South Africa, Desktop Dungeons is an official entrant to IGF’s 2011 Festival that pays tribute to the early dungeon crawler Rogue which used randomly generated dungeons and has since become its own genre. QCF adds a twist by giving the player a finite amount of choices with which to solve the micro maps. Read on for the full review.
Fast on the heels of announcing that they would cease further development of the King’s Bounty franchise, leading Eastern and Central European publisher 1C Company and Katauri Interactive, announced today the development of Royal Quest, the first massively multiplayer online role-playing game ever produced by 1C.
King’s Bounty: Crossworlds from Katauri Interactive and 1C Company – reviewed by Indie Game Reviewer.
“Before you buy this game, make sure you are at a point in your life where you can afford to spend dozens of hours playing a video game, because King’s Bounty is a huge {time-suck and game-play sessions can easily extend into day-long affairs as combat sessions become increasingly involved, before it finally leaves you to collapse in a heap asking yourself where the hell the day went. And for those of you who are die-hards who play Impossible mode – this write-up is not for you.”
Valve’s Steam has gone live with the Quakecon 2010 Pack – a ridiculous package deal hat includes some of the best and most beloved games of all time including Fallout 3: Game of the Year Edition, all of the Quake games, Bethesda software’s Oblivion and Morrowind, Dooms, Hexen and more. Save over 200 bucks.
Dream Chronicles: The Chosen Child is a puzzle game available on Steam that stands out from the pack. Read the full review.
Created by Daniel Remar creator of Iji, Hero Core and Garden Gnome Carnage and Erik Sjöstrand (who wrote the song […]
NASA and The Army Game Studio partner up with Virtual Heroes to develop an engrossing, really nice looking lunar sim on the Unreal 3 Engine leveraged by Valve’s Steam network. If your computer can handle, we say, Christmas came early.
“Loved” is a short but enjoyable free indie browser game from a very promising new voice to the indie gaming spectrum. Read the full review.
Warhammer 40,000 the MMO is the new time-sucker coming at you from Games Workshop, THQ (the people behind Red Faction) and Vigil Games (Darksiders). Watch the E3 trailer now!
A review of Guns of Icarus from Muse Games and notes on how to make a superficial Steampunk title a great Steampunk game.
When I was a young kid, there was this great cartoon on TV called Simon in the Land of Chalk […]
We wanted to share this list of Most Underrated Video Game Heroes because it features some our personal faves like […]
You can usually tell a trend is on the upswing when you set up your project at a site like Kickstarter.com hoping to raise a $15K and then easily besting that number. Indie Game: The Movie is a documentary that did just that.
Want to build and create video games but don’t want to look at a single line of code? If you aren’t playing LittleBigPlanet on the PS3, then maybe The Games Factory 2 is for you.
IGF award-winning indie game Devil’s Tuning Fork, inspired by the works of master optical illusionist M.C. Escher and the sonic echolocation abilities of dolphins and whales, is a first-person exploration/puzzle game in which the player must navigate an unknown world using visual sound waves.