Killers & Thieves Is A Game About Medieval Burglary
This is one of the nicest video game surprises I’ve had in a long time. Stoic, creators of the excellent Banner Saga, dropped a game on Steam this week out of almost nowhere. And it’s pretty good!
Banner Saga Returns To Kickstarter To Finish Off The Trilogy
Nearly five years after funding the first installment of its hand-animated turn-based tactics game on Kickstarter, indie studio Stoic returns to the crowdfunding site to help finish the final game in the trilogy, The Banner Saga 3.
Stoic Studio Is Giving Away A Banner Saga Poster
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Candy Crush Makers Remove a Game Accused of Being a Blatant Copy
In the world of flash games, derivatives vastly outnumber original concepts, so the charge someone copied a game is quite common. But the makers of a Pac-Man-style game in 2009 say they have an email proving that King, the outfit trademarking words like "candy" and "saga," ordered a developer to directly copy their…
Why The Ridiculous Candy Crush vs. Banner Saga Conflict Is Happening
"The law is a ass," Mr. Bumble said in Oliver Twist. And trademark law is a asshole, or at least it is to video gamers whenever it becomes a newsworthy topic. A match-three mobile puzzle game is telling a PC indie game it can't call itself by a word that dates to 1709. WTF? You've got questions, I'll try to answer…
Candy Crush Makers Say They're Going After Copycats, Not Banner Saga
The makers of Candy Crush Saga, who have filed for a trademark on video games with the name "candy," and are opposing the trademark application of The Banner Saga, (pictured) say they are "not trying to stop Banner Saga from using its name," but are compelled to defend their position under trademark law.
See The Banner Saga's Tactical Combat In Action
We've been keeping an eye on Stoic's Kickstarter'd strategy role-playing game The Banner Saga for a while now. The small studio, consisting of three ex-BioWare developers, describes their game as "role-playing meets turn-based strategy, wrapped into an adventure mini-series about vikings."