Tonight at the Game Developers Conference in San Francisco, both the IGF (Independent Games Festival) and Game Developers Choice Awards are being held. If you want to watch them live, you can do that right here.
50 Indie Games You Might Not Know About: check out this great write-up by Indie Statik that takes a look at a bunch of IGF entries that likely aren't on your radar.
You're trapped in the dark, and a monster is hunting you. Good thing you've got such great ears, and these cute little monsters are helping you! Check out this demo video for Pulse, which was on hand at the IGF booth at GDC last week. Team Pixel Pi are currently running a Kickstarter to try to get the game finished,…
Valve's just launched an Indie Spring Sale on Steam just in time for next week's Independent Games Festival.
Some games haunt you. Whether it's the industrial slums of Midgar or the overcast island of Myst, there are those precious few worlds we look forward to inhabiting; realities that stick with us vividly while others fade from memory.
You know the Independent Games Festival, right? Happens every year during the Game Developers' Conference and rounds up a slew of amazing games made by smaller entities? Usually winds up blowing your mind with how awesome the nominated games are? Yeah, that's the one. The finalists for the 2013 IGF represent some of…
For the last few years, titles nominated for the Independent Games Festival's various awards have been amongst the best digitally playable experiences in the preceding 12 months. But, as good as some of these games are, they haven't all been as lucky as, say, Fez, which was able to make it to a wide release.
This year's Independent Games Festival will feature 589 games, a new record. Check 'em out here.
You're on a first date. It's going pretty well. You've had a good time talking, you're both laughing a lot. You're feeling the vibe.
The Independent Games Festival (IGF) has announced the finalists for this year's IGF Awards, which will be held at the Game Developers' Conference in San Francisco in March. Some truly great games on this list. We'll have more coverage of the IGF in the coming weeks.
The Independent Games Festival has announced a multi-year partnership with Microsoft Games Studios. The partnership will involve a jury of indie game developers awarding an "XBLA Prize" (XBLA being Microsoft's Xbox Live Arcade service), which will be given out at the IGF, a festival and awards ceremony that happens…
More than 100 independent developers gather together more than 300 games they deemed not "big" or "polished" or "real" enough to be worth the entry fee for the 2012 Independent Games Festival awards into one massive bundle, and you can download and play it for free. Everybody wins!
It's always wonderful to see a worthy indie game slowly bud and blossom over time.
Each year the Independent Games Festival awards recognize what are often the most interesting, most innovative games of the year. This year was no different.
The Independent Games Festival has released its list of finalists for its 2011 awards, with Mojang's world-building Minecraft and Frictional's Amnesia: The Dark Descent duking it out with three other competitors for the $20,000 Seumas McNally Grand Prize.
One is a zen-like game about creating a tree. One is a beautiful, abstract fencing game. Another sees its players fighting physically to win. In another of 2011's Independent Game Festival Nuovo Award nominees, you play as a dictator's cat.
Loving husband. Caring father. Secret octopus. This is the tagline for Octodad, an adventure game in which players struggle to raise a family, maintain a secret octopus identity and somehow walk upright on tentacles.
The 13th annual Independent Games Festival has named the nearly 400 entrants vying for awards in this year's competition, an impressive list that includes surprise hit Minecraft, Cave Story, Explosionade and hundreds more. And you can preview every single one.
Yes! The IGF Awards are happening right now at this year's Game Developers Conference, a chance for indie developers to be handed awards under bright lights and for those indie developers to give short, awkward speeches. Let's do this!!!
Nominated for awards in Art and Technical Excellence for obvious reasons in the 12th Annual Independent Games Festival, Playdead's stunning black and white puzzle platformer Limbo is heading to Xbox Live Arcade this summer.
