indie games

The Game That Fights Pirates With Piracy Was Just Greenlit On Steam

This batch of recently green-lit games looks fantastic, and not just because it includes the game development simulator where piracy battles piracy. Let’s take a closer look at the upcoming games that will eventually release on Steam, shall we?


This Amazing Video Game Art Will Make You Wish You Were In Canada

Maybe you live in Toronto. Maybe you’ll be at the Toronto Comics Arts Festival this weekend. But if you won’t be in the upper part of the North American continent over the next few days, you won’t be able to see some incredible video game art. But we can show some of it right here.


A Survival Sim That (Mostly) Takes Place On A Single Screen

This scenery? That’s the bulk of what you’ll see while trying to survive in Gods Will Be Watching.


They Changed Fighting Games, Now They’re Making Something New

Tom and Tony Cannon know about building communities. Specifically, communities where people compete in games in which characters pummel each other sensless. Now they want to make a game where avatars live together in (relative) harmony. But they say that Stonehearth — the city-building game that they’re trying to fund via a just-launched Kickstarter campaign — isn’t all that far removed from Street Fighter. Seriously.


There Are 31 Video Games In This Fantasy Arcade. Can You Name Them?

That is one crazy amusement hall up there, filled popular indie games reimagined as more traditional arcade fare and familiar characters. Can you find them all and show us using our shiny image annotation system?


The Monaco Soundtrack Is Gonna Be A Whole Thing

The soundtrack for the upcoming co-operative heist game Monaco: What’s Yours is Mine is a rowdy, somewhat tongue-in-cheek collection of piano bangers from Journey composer Austin Wintory. But those tunes really only tell half the story.


Riot Grrl Game Trailer Reminds You That Video Games And Mixtapes Are Like Cousins

Think back to when you made mixtapes or burned a specific selection of songs to CD for somebody. What were you trying to do?


Look How Far This One Promising Indie Game Has Come

Back in 2009, The Swapper looked promising but rough. The core concept was there and you could see how the instant cloning mechanic would make for a fun twist on the typical platformer experience.


Surgeon Simulator 2013′s Brain Surgery Treats Patients’ Skulls Like Eggs

So, Surgeon Simulator 2013 came out of nowhere (well, this year’s Global Game Jam) to be one of the most hilarious, disturbing games that some folks have played this year. And that was before the folks at Bossa Studios added brain surgery.


Japan’s Indie Games Are An Untapped Resource Of Cool

The entire room was packed. This has to be a fire hazard, someone said. It probably was, but no one cared. They were too busy looking at cool games they had never seen before and meeting game creators they had heard of and never heard of before.


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