A Video Game About People Who Pretend To Be Airplanes
Sometimes a headline and a video are really all you need.
8-Bit Survival Game Is a Beautiful Journey Through Nature
That scene almost makes you forget how the game is actually about the world ending in an infinite winter.
100 More Games in Steam's Immediate Future, Including Space Minecraft
Well, if you wanna get technical, it's not really space Minecraft. It's more of a sci-fi sandbox RPG thing. But it's pretty darn close.
Steam's Future Is Filled With... Bollywood Dancing?
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Yes, someone's made a game about bollywood dancing. It's going on Steam, thanks to Greenlight. The people have spoken!
130+ Games In Two Weeks? Time to Slow Down, Steam
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The Steam community is certainly a productive bunch. In total, the last two weeks gave us one-hundred and thirty seven new Greenlight titles to look forward to. That's... rather impressive. Of course, this means there's a whole bunch of platformers, horror games, and RPGs for us to check out, so let's get started!
Legendary Arcade Shooter Ikaruga Is Getting A PC Version
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After the vertical shoot-em-up's arcade debut in 2001, it was ported over to several home consoles: the GameCube, the Dreamcast, and even the Xbox 360 via the Live Arcade. Heck, there was even an Android port released this January. Now, it's the PC's turn.
Oh Look, It's Raining Steam Games Again
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It's been a productive three weeks for Steam's Greenlight—not as preposterously productive as last time, but still, quite productive. This time, we have 57 freshly community-approved titles to examine, which should all hopefully arrive on Steam sometimes in the near future. Let's dig in, shall we?
American McGee's Five-Year-Old Grimm Series Seeks New Life On Steam
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Back in the summer of 2008, a game called American McGee's Grimm debuted on GameTap—an episodic action-adventure written by R. J. Berg, who also worked on American McGee's Alice. In the following one and a half year period, Grimm received 22 additional episodes. And now, it's on Steam Greenlight.
Yep, Deadly Premonition Is Coming to Steam. Along With 13 Other Games
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Rather impressively, it only took six days for the community to put Deadly Premonition on Steam. That's pretty quick. Of course, SWERY's quirky horror game isn't the only title we'll get to play on Steam thanks to Greenlight. There's 13 more games (and two software titles) to look at, so let's dive right in!
Steam's Fresh Batch of Greenlit Games Includes “Minecraft with Guns”
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Of course, Guncraft is just one of the eight games (and three software titles) the community approved for Steam-driven distribution last week. We've got a jungle survival game, a supernatural adventure-thriller, and even a mining adventure set on Mars. Let's dive right in.
Explore, Survive, Role-Play: Here's The Latest Of Steam's Greenlight
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The city building game built by fighting game veterans and the "rogue-lite" with the awesome soundtrack are just two of the ten games that nabbed community-assured distribution rights on Steam this month. Let's have a look at who and what they are.
Steam Sends Indies Who Got Publishing Offer Back to Greenlight
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Shortly after opening their Steam Greenlight campaign for the game Paranautical Activity, the two-man studio Code Avarice got a phone call that would have made any indie's day: It was Adult Swim, offering to publish their game on Steam. Yeah, well, not so fast.
The Game That Fights Pirates With Piracy Was Just Greenlit On Steam
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This batch of recently green-lit games looks fantastic, and not just because it includes the game development simulator where piracy battles piracy. Let's take a closer look at the upcoming games that will eventually release on Steam, shall we?
The Goofy Underbelly Of Steam Greenlight
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Given that there are so, so many submissions to Valve's Steam Greenlight crowdsourcing approval system, it stands to reason that there will be some pretty goofy entries. And what do you know, that's totally the case!
Check Out The 18 New Games That Were Just Green-Lit On Steam
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Steam just got a whole bunch of new games approved by its community. From Japanese RPGs to strategy games to zombies to I-Don't-Even-Know-What-That-Is-But-It-Looks-Pretty to Something-That-Looks-Like-Slender to dungeon crawlers and so many more, there's a ton of interesting new games you can check out.
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If you liked the first Syndicate, you may have been less than satisfied with the first-person shooter version that came out last year. Perhaps you'd like a version that's a bit truer to the original, like Firaxis' take on XCOM? In that case, you might enjoy Black Annex, a new indie game that's more or less a moddable …
The Latest Batch Of Steam Greenlight Games Includes Leisure Suit Larry
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Lewd adventure game Leisure Suit Larry and the funny parody DLC Quest are among the latest batch of Steam Greenlight games, announced by Valve today.
The PA Report has an incredible account of a circus shooting mistake and its influence on the making of a video game.
These Are The First Non-Games To Make It Through Steam Greenlight
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Today, Steam announced the third round of titles coming out of the Steam Greenlight process. Steam Greenlight, which is driven by fans voting on projects to be developed and sold on Steam, had stuck solely to games for the first two installments. But today's roster revealed—in addition to games like Dragon's Lair and…
Flee A Single-Minded Monster In This Dangerous Island Survival Game
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You're creeping through the bushes on a jungle island, a map in one hand, an eye out ahead of you. There's something creeping through the underbrush behind you, a beast you'd best avoid. You look down at your map, desperate for the best way out of this canyon. Carefully, you head to the left, and past the cover of a…