Vlambeer are best known for their video games like Luftrausers, Nuclear Throne and Ridiculous Fishing. I’ve been enjoying something else they’ve done recently, though, and it’s something a bit more tangible: this big book all about the team and their history.
Vlambeer's Rami Ismail accidentally inspired a Nuclear Throne challenge, to beat the current version of the game using only the pistol. 10 hours after it was officially proposed, Wizard_Amul did it.
The Internet is in danger, everyone. That sounds like kind of a silly thing to say, but it's true. While not yet set in stone, the FCC has made disconcerting plans to allow companies to divide this beautiful web of ours into potentially expensive tiers. Gaming stands to take a massive hit too. Here's why.
Vlambeer's Nuclear Throne is adding four-player online and local multiplayer. If you're familiar with the brutal Gauntlet-style game, you're cheering right now. Online multiplayer will be added to the Steam Early Access version of the game soon. It's going to be glorious.
Giant Bomb's Patrick Klepek wrote a great piece about the Luftrausers Nazi kerfuffle, in which people pondered if the arcade-y shooter is about playing as a super cool, er, Nazi. Developer Vlambeer politely disagreed and explained its intentions, but also acknowledged the complaint as valid. That's basically amazing.
You know what they say...more money more problems. Or, more accurately, the more money you have, the more likely you are to think about how you earned it, how you should use it, and how it changes your relationships.
Luftrausers makes you feel like you're constantly in the danger zone.
The world of games can difficult and unforgiving — most creative endeavors are. But that doesn't mean that there aren't some ways to make the process a whole lot easier.
Remember the developers who are famed for being ripped off? Someone made a game about that: now you too can rip off Vlambeer games (like Ridiculous Fishing) and get away with it. Heh.
Vlambeer's wondrous Ridiculous Fishing is now on Android, if the price is right. Purchase the Humble Mobile Bundle 3, with its Rymdkapsel and Epoch goodness, beat the average price for the pay-what-you-want pack, and all the Ridiculous Fishing you could ever want is yours.
Guido Henkel has been in the gaming industry for over thirty years, where he worked on classic titles such as Planescape Torment and Fallout 2. Now, he wants to make a comeback with a new old-school RPG, titled Deathfire: Ruins of Nevermore.
Welcome to the second Kotaku Quick Q&A, this time with a small twist. Our interviewee answers four of my questions and then has one question for me and you.
The person who is playing the upcoming video game Luftrausers in the GIF here understands a basic rule of the game: don't shoot, and your ship will heal. Games are made of simple rules like these. Occasionally, those rules can feel profound.
A black Samsonite backpack belonging to Rami Ismail, co-founder of Ridiculous Fishing and Super Crate Box developer Vlambeer, disappeared during Sony's E3 mixer at the Figueroa hotel last night. According to Joystiq the bag contains an Asus laptop, two Vitas, the iPads, power adapters — Ismail says it's "pretty much…
Two days ago, dev studio RubiqLab found themselves the subject of much scorn, thanks to the unseemly resemblance between their game SkyFar and Vlambeer’s long-ago-announced Luftrausers. They responded to their critics by saying that they’ve been working on SkyFar for a year and cited U.S. copyright law. Now, RubiqLab…
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Vlambeer’s great mobile game about highly aggressive angling is one of the best iPhone games to come out this year. Maybe it’s because it realizes that real-world fishing can be hella boring.
"Luftrausers" is a made-up word. Sounds German. But it's not. "Luft" means "air," but "rausers"? It's nonsense.*
Smitten as we are here at Kotaku with the amazing iOS game Ridiculous Fishing, we had to get some tips from the people who made the game. They know how to ridiculously fish.
Luftrausers—the retro dogfighting game from the makers of Ridiculous Fishing—is coming to PS3 and Vita this spring.
