Early in development, Tuque Games brought in Thwacke to consult on their upcoming Mechwarrior-meets-Diablo action RPG, World War Machine. We assembled a team of experts consisting of nanotechology researcher Kevin Neibert and Aerospace Defense analyst Greg Linton to create a unique and authentic sci-fi experience. » 6/12/14 9:00am 6/12/14 9:00am

The online fund-begging havens of Kickstarter and Indiegogo (among quite a few others) are bursting with wild, fantastical visions of things once thought impossible. Some of them are awesome, some outlandish, some flat-out insane. These are but a few. » 5/07/14 4:27pm 5/07/14 4:27pm

Gamebuino, an Arduino game console: » 3/20/14 9:03am 3/20/14 9:03am

Interference is a platformer about stealth. And darkness. And sci-fi. Oh, and stopping the game to move the levels themselves around. » 11/12/13 12:00am 11/12/13 12:00am

People have been trying to turn regular tasks - from desk jobs to chores - into games for years. It's called "Gamification", and the word makes me want to scratch my own eyeballs out. But this app idea, which brings the concept of stuff like Xbox Live to real world sport, is a lot more interesting. » 11/11/13 3:00am 11/11/13 3:00am

PayPal is causing crowdfunded game developers all kinds of woes, Giant Bomb's Patrick Klepek reports. Read the whole story. An excerpt: "I had pulled out like $700,000 and dumped it into our bank,” said Lab Zero founder Peter Bartholow. “I get a call from a [PayPal] guy who’s like ‘yeah, I can’t believe they let you… » 9/20/13 1:45pm 9/20/13 1:45pm

Spanish indie group Numantian Games is crowdfunding an old-school 2D isometric RPG (with first-person, turn-based battles)—it's called Lords of Xulima, and it's well on its way to release. It just needs a little bit of polishing first. » 9/16/13 5:20am 9/16/13 5:20am

Yesterday, we told you how Paypal were keeping half the money raised by an indie game until the game had been finished. Even though...the devs needed that money to finish the game. Today, somebody at Paypal has woken up on planet Earth and done the smart thing. » 9/10/13 11:30pm 9/10/13 11:30pm

The small team behind indie fighting game Yatagarasu Attack on Cataclysm have a problem. Despite raising nearly $120,000 on crowdsourcing site Indiegogo - twice what they asked for - they can't get their hands on over half the cash. » 9/09/13 11:00pm 9/09/13 11:00pm

Well, it was going to happen eventually. It's Hotline: Miami. Short, sweet, violent and exciting; the perfect recipe for a great internet flick, which is exactly what this man is trying to make—and crowdfund. » 9/03/13 5:40am 9/03/13 5:40am

Yeah, you just stay the hell out of my porn folder, AdventureOS; I'm not interested in a boss battle with Peter North. » 8/26/13 12:00pm 8/26/13 12:00pm

There's a catch. There's always a catch. » 8/26/13 6:20am 8/26/13 6:20am

Meet Odallus: The Dark Call, currently in development by JoyMasher, the same Brazilian indie group that brought us Oniken last year. It's an "action exploration platformer" set to come out in 2014. Also, the hero is named "Haggis." ... Huh. » 6/28/13 10:20am 6/28/13 10:20am

Well, if you ignore the shark, anyway. Above is footage of the prototype version of World of Diving, a mellow Oculus Rift-enabled multiplayer diving simulator currently looking for funds on Indiegogo. Underwater fish photography never looked so appealing. » 6/14/13 10:20am 6/14/13 10:20am

But nope. Case in point: a terrifying new gameplay trailer for Darkwood, the procedurally generated top-down survival horror game we showed you two months back. Incidentally, there's an Indiegogo campaign going on for the game, so if Darkwood seems like something you'd want to check out, have a look. » 5/28/13 5:20am 5/28/13 5:20am

It was one of the year's feel-good stories when Lab Zero Games raised over $800,000 so they could make more content for indie fighting game Skullgirls. » 4/23/13 2:00am 4/23/13 2:00am

That escalated quickly. » 2/26/13 11:30pm 2/26/13 11:30pm

An IndieGoGo campaign for this great-looking Mark of the Ninja fan film is launching on March 11. Trailer to the left. » 2/15/13 8:15am 2/15/13 8:15am

You might remember "Enter The Freeman," a very cool short Half-Life film we featured a few months ago. » 2/06/13 4:30pm 2/06/13 4:30pm