It's been a while since we've had a fresh digital storefront to compete with the likes of Steam and GOG, with itch.io the only real one of note. But there's a new kid on the block, called Kartridge, that's actually older than it looks. Why? Because it's backed by Kongregate, one of the stalwarts of the Flash gaming era of the 90s and early 2000s.
Even with Valve's replacement of the vote-powered Steam Greenlight with the fee of Steam Direct, making it easier than ever for indie developers to get onto the mammoth online storefront, Itch.io remains an important alternative. If you thought Itch might have suffered in the face of Direct, on the contrary, over 100,000 new projects appeared on the site during 2017, some 68,500 of which were published.
A panel of judges have given the Best Student Game award from this year's The Game Awards to Level Squared. A game developed by a team of students from Swinburne University of Technology in Melbourne.
All sorts of things get made over the process of a game jam, and occasionally some of them are hilariously great. That was the case for No Mario's Sky, which ended up being something like a basic platformer that let you fly off world so you could stomp more goombas.
But as they are want to do, Nintendo quickly moved to shut the project down. So the creators responded with a new game: DMCA's Sky.
