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The Eight Unusual Video Games Up For The ‘Nuovo Award’

One is a zen-like game about creating a tree. One is a beautiful, abstract fencing game. Another sees its players fighting physically to win. In another of 2011′s Independent Game Festival Nuovo Award nominees, you play as a dictator’s cat.


November 12, 2010
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Octodad Proves Raising Kids, Secretly Being An Octopus Ain’t Easy

Loving husband. Caring father. Secret octopus. This is the tagline for Octodad, an adventure game in which players struggle to raise a family, maintain a secret octopus identity and somehow walk upright on tentacles.


October 22, 2010
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Minecraft Is Just One Of 391 Indie Game Festival Entrants

The 13th annual Independent Games Festival has named the nearly 400 entrants vying for awards in this year’s competition, an impressive list that includes surprise hit Minecraft, Cave Story, Explosionade and hundreds more. And you can preview every single one.


March 12, 2010
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LIVE: The Independent Game Festival Awards *Explosion Sound*

Yes! The IGF Awards are happening right now at this year’s Game Developers Conference, a chance for indie developers to be handed awards under bright lights and for those indie developers to give short, awkward speeches. Let’s do this!!!


March 4, 2010
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Limbo: It’s Black And White And Headed To Xbox Live Arcade

Nominated for awards in Art and Technical Excellence for obvious reasons in the 12th Annual Independent Games Festival, Playdead’s stunning black and white puzzle platformer Limbo is heading to Xbox Live Arcade this summer.


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The IGF Mobile Finalists Get Front Page ITuning

We’ve spent the past month or so talking about the Independent Games Festival finalists, but we haven’t really touched on the mobile category.


January 4, 2010
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2010 Independent Games Festival Finalists Announced

With submissions having been open since July, the 20 finalists for the 12th annual Independent Games Festival have been announced.


December 12, 2009
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Notebook Dump: 2010 Games, 17 For The IGF, Where 1943 Leads EA

There comes a time in the week to reflect on what got into my reporter’s notebook but didn’t turn into Kotaku blog posts. Shall we?


July 10, 2009
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Indie Games Fest Looking For A Few Good Games

The annual Independent Games Festival is now taking submissions for the 12th annual festival which takes place duing the 2010 Game Developers Conference.


January 27, 2009
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iPhone Dominates Independent Games Fest Mobile Award Finalists

Maybe Apple’s iPhone really is “the future of gameplay.” This year’s Independent Games Festival Mobile finalists are almost entirely comprised of titles for iPhone and iPod Touch platforms, with just one Nintendo DS entry appearing.