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After getting a look at developer Arkedo's new venture today, CEO Camille Guermonprez told me something very, very interesting: more published devs might go indie. More »
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Tale of Tales isn't the kind of indie dev to over-explain their artistic creations and I'm not the kind of person who reads the Bible. This combination creates the weirdest gaming experience ever. More »
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If you're not digging SpongeBob Squarepants and Nirvana updates, this nifty NES emulator program might be just the fix for Rock Band/Guitar Hero fatigue. More »
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Independent Games Festival finalist Audiosurf is coming to Steam. Wait! Don't scroll away yet. Audiosurf is actually pretty cool, taking your existing music and generating race tracks and puzzle layouts for an intense rhythmic-puzzle-racer. It's kind of like F-Zero meets Klax meets Phase, if that helps. It also happens to be the one first Steam-bound titles to take advantage of the recently announced Steamworks, which means it will come packed with those delicious achievements. But wait... there's more. More »
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IAC recently purchased the majority of indie developer and Torque engine creator GarageGames, and today the two companies announce the fruits of that transaction. InstantAction.com will eventually be a completely web-based action gaming portal, dedicated to serving high-quality video games without requiring downloads. I'm imagining it as a sort of Games.com, only instead of Scrabble and Yahtzee there'll be...well, action games. The companies are introducing new technology that will enable graphically-rich, multiplayer games to run in standard web browsers. You can visit InstantAction.com right now and enter your email address for early public beta access, with the site expected to launch publicly in early 2008. As well as the games portal, InstantAction is also launching a Game Development Fund aimed at encouraging new developers to create games for the internet. Personally I am kind of afraid of this. The last thing ADD boy here needs is quick and easy multiplayer action games at his fingertips. More »
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