Papers, Please scored two big wins last night at the 2014 Games for Change festival’s awards ceremony, taking home the top prize in the “Best Gameplay” and “Most Innovative Game” categories. The 2013 indie game that casts players as an immigration inspector also won the grand prize at the 16th annual Independent Games Festival awards…

Famous Internet Cats, Now In Pretty Colors

The internet and cats go together like, well, the internet and cats. As Wired Magazine once astutely observed, there is only one thing that can legitimately “compete with porn for Internet real estate,” and that thing “is cats.” Much like their less safe-for-work rivals, however, cats have adopted a decidedly low-fi, amateurish aesthetic in making…

May’s Playstation Plus Lineup Includes Puppeteer and Limbo

May brings with it another six games for Playstation Plus members, including indie darling Limbo and the underplayed Puppeteer. Check out the full list below or in the video above. [Playstation Blog] PS4 Stick it to the Man! PS3 Puppeteer Pro Evolution Soccer 2014 Skullgirls Vita Surge Deluxe Limbo Which games do you want to…

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Bob’s Game, One Of The Strangest Stories In Indie Gaming, Is Back

In 2008, a man named Robert Pelloni made headlines with an ambitious claim: he’d spent thousands of hours working on an indie role-playing game called Bob’s Game, and he wanted to release it for Nintendo DS. In the months and years to come, Pelloni made headlines for less savory reasons. First he said he would…

Video Game Artist Turns Her Own Face Into Monster Material

One moment, it’s a pleasant mask of a female face. The next, it’s the shriveled mask of a nightborne hell-beast. Sweet dreams! We’ve already shown a bit of the photogrammetry technology that Polish dev studio The Astronauts will be using to pull images from the real world into the game engine they’re using to make…

Game of Thrones‘ Opening Couldn’t Get Any More Absurd

Really3D‘s minimalistic, silly recreation of the iconic Game of Thrones opening might be a joke, but looking at the precisely scaled models, you must admit it probably still took him a lot of time to do this. I only have one question: Where is the mighty render farm that made this possible located? Game of…

Cult Horror Game is Getting a Live-Action Film

Ao Oni, the popular survival horror RPG Maker game—where you have to solve puzzles and escape from The Oni, a demon that appears and follows you randomly—is getting a Japanese live-action movie Just for comparison, here’s a shot from the game. The Oni and the setting may look nice and calm, but it is not.…

Super-early gameplay footage from the Outcast HD reboot And I do mean super early—it’s basically the old game models in the new engine, with zero special effects. Still, looks promising! The Kickstarter campaign is currently 37% funded with just under two weeks to go.

Nobody Is #1 In The New Smash Bros. Games, And That’s A Good Thing

One of the features of the new Smash Bros. games that was revealed in creator Masahiro Sakurai’s Nintendo Direct was the Global Smash Power system. While most people may have overlooked it as a vague ranking system, it offers much more potential than you would think at first glance. In his semi-weekly column in Weekly…