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Digital distribution services Steam and Direct2Drive are battling it out this weekend, attempting to see which PC gaming platform can offer the best indie bundle. The clear winner in this price slashing bloodbath? YOU!! More »
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Jonathan Mak's one man show Everyday Shooter is now available to PC gamers via Steam. Like the PlayStation 3 version, it's a mere $9.99 USD—actually $8.99 in its debut week on Valve's digital distribution platform—a bargain for such a fabulous little, Independent Game Festival award winning experience like this. Also exciting? A revamped Steam web site that makes it easier to peruse the ever increasing catalog. Hooray! More »
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What obsessions plague our top independent game designers today? What theories keep them up at night? What possibilities blow their minds, challenge their presumptions and make them sound like a bunch of philosophical hippies after two bottles of ice wine and carton of black bean hummus? More »
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And so our vigil comes to an end. SCEE have announced, via their Three Speech blog, that Everyday Shooter will be appearing on the PAL PlayStation Store this Thursday. And only four months after the US release! When finally downloading and enjoying this fantastic title, I hope you all take a moment to appreciate the vast amount of intricate localization work that went into the game. Be a shame if four months work went unrecognised! More »
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I've made fun of NPR more than my fair share, but Heather Chaplin recently did an interesting piece regarding the "games that got away." About 7 minutes of radio gives credit to three incredible games we've seen this year: Portal, Everyday Shooter, and Desktop Tower Defense. More »
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Now here's the kind of Black Friday sale we can get into. Here are the very specific instructions to save 50% on PlayStation Store downloads. More »
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Everyday Shooter — that PSN release that you'll hopefully all be downloading a couple of weeks from now — had a presence at the show, with its creator, Canadian Jonathan Mak, on hand to give people a go at the game. Since the title isn't getting a Japanese release just yet, Mak was previewing the game from a laptop, and offering the use of earphones so that you could take in the game as it was meant to be played, meaning in a space where you can actually hear the music (not easy when you're located right next to Capcom's bombastic booth). More »
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I am, to put it lightly, a huge fan of Jonathan Mark's Everyday Shooter. It's the sort of simple approach to gaming that both seems to get casual gaming and still provide the sort of experience that a hardcore gamer can enjoy. More »
]]> http://kotaku.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=301386&view=rss&microfeed=true I first got a chance to play Everyday Shooter back when I was helping to judge for the 2007 Independent Games Festival. I found the game, find it, to be proof that a game doesn't have to be deep to be deep. It is, on its surface, just another top-down shooter, ala Asteroids or Geometry Wars, but there is so much more there. The music, which you can on some level influence, adds to the mood, the graphics, often quite trippy, also helps, but it's when they are combined with a very unique system of play that the whole thing comes together. More »
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