indie games
News
Pumpkin Chop Makes Top 10 Indie Games List
1:20PM AJ Glasser | Major Nelson’s got the Xbox Live numbers up for the week of October 26th and who should be in third place on the Indie list but Pumpkin Chop. More »
Media
You Want It, You Got It — College Lacrosse On Xbox 360
1:40PM Owen Good | Great, Another sport I’ve never played in my life, but will have to review because, you know, I’m the sports guy. Here’s lacrosse, game of Native Americans, Jim Brown, and every Volvo-driving L.L. Bean family between Charlottesville and Albany. More »
News
XNA Studio Adds Zune HD Dev Support
6:20AM Mike Fahey | To coincide with the retail launch of the shiny new Zune HD, Microsoft has released extensions for XNA Game Studio 3.1 to aid indie developers in creating games for the mobile media player. More »
News
XBL Avatar Golf Game Is Now Available
5:30AM Owen Good | Hey, remember the “leaked footage” of the Xbox Live avatar golf game? Mystery solved. It’s available on the Marketplace in the Indie Games channel. Avatar Golf is its name, because, well, it’s golfing with your avatar. More »
Indie Games Get a Mainstream Closeup
8:30AM Owen Good | In its “All New” issue, discussing the cutting edge of trends in American culture, New York Magazine lauds four indie titles for “ushering in a golden age of smart, beautiful, and really weird games.” More »
A Case for Indie Development on Mac and Linux
7:00AM Owen Good | MacOS and Linux’s install base is dwarfed by Windows, so in terms of which platform to develop for, that ends the argument right there. Right? Wrong, says Wolfire Games‘ Jeff Rosen. More »
Flash Fridays: Robokill
4:06PM David Wildgoose | I know how it feels. It’s late on a Friday afternoon, you’re sitting in the office, you’re bored, and you wanna go to the pub home. But you can’t… not just yet.
This is where Flash Fridays comes in. I’ll be recommending a neat time-killing Flash or other browser-based game that makes that painful wait for pub time home time just a little bit less painful. So, who’s up for some Robokill? More » 
Mixing Music in a Video Game for the Blind
2:00AM Owen Good | Video, of course, takes its root from the Latin word for “see.” So a “video game” for those who have lost their sight might look like a paradox, but it doesn’t sound like one.
The Top 5 Indie Games of ‘08
5:30AM Maggie Greene | Gamasutra’s been rounding up the top titles of the year in a variety of categories; up recently were the top five ‘indie’ games (plus ten honorable mentions). More »
