The hip, small-time boutique publishing label Electronic Arts revealed its “Indie Bundle” yesterday — curiously for sale over Steam and not Origin, and there was a passionate response from many observers of the video game artistic community. Including Markus “Notch” Persson, better known as the creator of uber-indie hit Minecraft.
Broken Rules, the indie studio behind And Yet it Moves, is currently working on a game called Chasing Aurora. It looks lovely.
Currently in development (sort of) at New York-based indie outfit Attack Mountain, Legend of the Time Star is a love letter to old 16-bit, side-scrolling RPGs, particularly those coming out of Japan. Thanks to the input of Jake “virt” Kaufman it’s already sounding like its inspiration, but it’s thanks to Brazilan artist Dudu Torres that it’s looking so great.
You may not have heard of Electronic Arts, a boutique publishing label based in Redwood City, Calif. Well, I bet you will be raving about them once you pick up the “EA Indie Bundle” on Steam, the indie-friendly digital marketplace, unlike that Origin bullshit run by that place that screwed up the end of Mass Effect 3.
Noitu Love 2, one of the best indie games released in the past five years, is now out on Steam. At $US4, it’s a steal. [Steam]
A false alarm related to keylogging, which seemed like a pretty raw deal for a promising fan remake of classic platformer Sonic 2, turned out to be just the tip of a giant iceberg scientists have named “Drama”. One that’s now sunk the game.
Steam is lovely, but at the end of the day, it’s run by a single company, and sells games from (mostly) other big companies. Wouldn’t it be interesting to see what such a platform could look like at the other end of the market?
In February, an entertaining, if “fake” concept video did the rounds, in which the Call of Duty franchise was re-imagined from the perspective of law enforcement.
After its launch on Friday, “about 20 THOUSAND PEOPLE (!!)” supplied “more testing” than the game had received in the past five years, according to Polytron programmer Renaud Bedard. “So, as it happens, bugs popped up. Some pretty serious.”
Mark Crowe and Scott Murphy, creators of the Space Quest series of adventure games by Sierra Online, today announced they were gettin’ the band back together, under the (Two) “Guys from Andromeda” nickname they coined for themselves so long ago.
