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PC

Pay Whatever You Want For The Lovely Botanicula, Get Other Free Stuff

I think that Botanicula, the new game from Machinarium indies Amanita Design, is freakin’ wonderful. I already wrote about why I like it, so read that if you’re wondering about the game. Short version: if you have a heart and like lovely and funny things, you should play it.

19 April 2012

PC

The Splendid Botanicula Overflows With Weapons-Grade Joyfulness

Joy is a terribly underrated commodity in video games. Most of the games I play inspire all kinds of feelings — stress, tension, exhilaration, frustration, even less-celebrated but still mentionable sensations like “comforting routine” and “empowering murder-fantasy”.

5 April 2012

PC

Machinarium Follow-Up Botanicula Gets Release Date, Looks Adorable

Man, I want to play Botanicula. Amanita Design won me over forever with their splendid adventure game Machinarium, and I’ve been looking forward to its follow-up Botanicula ever since I first heard about it.

5 April 2011

PC

From Cute Little Robots To Strange Cowboys And Puppets

You like Machinarium? Then you may like Osada, the newest game from Machinarium’s developers, Amanita Design. It’s free, and you can play it right now.

30 March 2011

PC

Weird And Wonderfully Named Video Games Of Jakub Dvorský

Machinarium creator Jakub Dvorský was at this weekend’s GameCityNights event, announcing not one, not five, but three new games to come from Amanita Design. We (read: Kotaku’s favourite Englishmen at Rock Paper Shotgun) dispatched monocled investigator Brendan Caldwell to track him down and find out everything possible.

13 September 2010

News

Machinarium Shuffling Onto WiiWare

Machinarium – an adventure game we like very much – is headed to the Wii via its WiiWare service. Release date TBA. Yay!

23 December 2009

Machinarium Review: Beautiful Robots

In case you haven’t noticed, we’re playing catch-up here at Kotaku. Reviewing some games that were missed in the run-in to the holiday season. Which is great, because it means I get a chance to talk about Machinarium.

9 December 2009

News

Machinarium Extends Its Reach To Retail Shelves

Amanita Design’s Machinarium, one of the year’s most charming (and sadly underrated) PC titles, has previously been available only as a digital download. Next year, however, it’ll graduate to a boxed, retail copy.

20 October 2009

News

So Apparently No One Cares About Valve’s Conflict-of-Interest

We’ve heard one developer say they didn’t feel exploited by Valve, despite Gearbox CEO Randy Pitchford’s assertion that that’s exactly what Steam does. Today, Ars Technica lets us hear from a few more.

28 September 2009

Machinarium Out Next Month

Machinarium, a cute little adventure game that stars robots and steals hearts, will be out on PC on October 16, the game’s developers (Amanita Design) let us know today.

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