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A Video Game In Which You Make Video Games Fights Pirates With Piracy
There’s a recent tradition of developers screwing with pirates — from releasing enormous, immortal pink scorpions on them, to booby trapping their games with glitches when they get cracked. This weekend, Greenheart Games, creator of Game Dev Tycoon, just blew the curve for everyone. This is fantastic.
The Prisoners Might Be Innocent In One Of 2013′s Most Interesting PC Games
I’m already on record about how fascinating Prison Architect is. Seriously, it’s SimPrison — or ThemePrison, if you will — made by people who seem to be damn near fearless about making video games about uncomfortable topics.
You’re Trapped In The Dark, And A Monster Is Hunting You
Good thing you’ve got such great ears and these cute little monsters are helping you! Check out this demo video for Pulse, which was on hand at the IGF booth at GDC last week.
All This Beautiful Landscape Needs Is An Actual RPG To Play It With
Unigine are a busy little company. It makes games, like 2012 RTS Oil Rush. It makes PC benchmark tools. And it also makes engines.
You Can Preorder This Game Before You Even Know What It Is
Indie developer 11 Bit Studios has quite the deal for you: if you preorder their game now, you’ll get 50 per cent off the final price. That would be quite the saving, if we actually knew a damn thing about the game.
Play As The Grim Reaper And Spread The Bubonic Plague
Don’t get weirded out by this, but I have a bit of a thing for the black death. It’s emergences are some the most fascinating events in centuries, an apocalypse tale straight from the history books. It’s the best part of one of the best movies ever made. Hell, one of my favourite records is a concept album all about it.
This Game Was Made By Hand The Old-Fashioned Way
This is Lumino City. It’s the sequel to a 2012 game, Lume. It’s “handmade” in the sense that rather than being built from digital 3D assets it was mostly filmed on a set made in the real world.
Report: Valve’s Steam PC Getting 2013 Reveal, Runs On Linux
According to a report on German IT site Golem, Valve engineer Ben Krasnow told an audience at the recent EHSM 2012 conference in Berlin that the company’s long-awaited “Steam Box” custom PC/console thing will indeed be running on Linux, and will be revealed in full at either GDC or E3 later this year.
Ed McMillen: Ubuntu Store Sold Super Meat Boy For A Year Without Permission, Has Yet To Pay Team Meat
The latest Humble Bundle includes the Linux version of The Binding Of Isaac, the Legend of Zelda-inspired roguelike. The problem is, if you try to download it using Ubuntu’s Software Centre, you’ll be told Team Meat “declined” to have the game sold via the store. Except Team Meat didn’t decline, the game was submitted and rejected, the reason being it “wasn’t a good fit”.
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