Even a good day and a half after finishing Gone Home, it's still hard to know what to say about it. It's unlike anything I've ever played. I will warn you right away that it's a very, very short game. If your favorite part of Skyrim was the dollars-to-hours equation at the end of the game, Gone Home is not for you. With that said, it's a unique, interesting game that pushes the...
If you're still waiting for a clear cut reason to dive into Vblank's Retro City Rampage and you own a Nintendo 3DS, you'll finally have as good an opportunity to play it as any. The quasi-8-bit homage to classic gaming and pop culture is now heading to Nintendo's newest portable system. The news popped up in a recently released presser from Nintendo. The company emailed press members...
In recent years, a trend has started to emerge around the fringes of gaming. I don’t remember this happening before, so I’m calling it new. There are games that simply intimidate me. There are games I don’t like, sure, but these are games that I’m curious about and interested in but I simply find them too daunting to ever get into. If I ever do get into them, I often find myself...
Brothers: A Tale of Two Sons just released from 505 Games and Starbreeze Studios for the Xbox 360. It's done a bang-up job amongst critics and early comers. The Xbox 360 exclusivity, though, is fleeting. Players will be able to snag Brothers: A Tale of Two Sons on the PC platform starting August 28th, 2013. It will sell on Steam. PlayStation 3 owners will be able to buy it virtually on...
Just a month and a half after the announcement of Fez II, Polytron is canceling Fez II and Phil Fish is announcing his departure from game development altogether, following a couple of recent blow-ups on Twitter between the creator and various other personalities in the greater games industry. Fish wrote on the Polytron website that “FEZ II is cancelled. I am done. I take the money...
Last weekend, Phil Fish got into quite the dust-up on Twitter. Fish is the Co-Founder of Polytron and the main mind behind last year’s wonderful FEZ. During the incident on Twitter, Fish cancelled FEZ 2 and announced his departure from the games industry entirely. Here’s a screenshot of those tweets. (Warning: Contains harsh language) It turns out, as most of us had deduced, that...
The booming indie market and Kickstarter phenomenon have given a second birth to many of the genres we once believed to be extinct. 2D platformers, point-and-click adventures and Dungeons & Dragons inspired RPGs are now huge again. All these genres of yesteryear have seen a marvelous revival, and it’s thanks to the young minds who grew up playing these genres. They’re now able to...
Outlast pretty much scared the crap out of E3 and PAX attendees this year. The terrifying survival horror game even caused one demo player to faint at E3, according to the email that accompanied today’s news. I know I won’t be playing it because I’m a giant scaredy cat. Good gravy, if someone actually fainted while playing, I’d probably die on the spot. Just…dead. The only thing that...
Steam, thanks to the community of voters, has officially Greenlit 14 new games. Project Greenlight is a Steam service that allows indie developers to get their products up for sale on Steam. The only catch is that community members vote them into a group high enough to earn official Steam classification in batches. Today marks a brand new batch. Here's the full list of games that made...
Lorne Lanning, Oddworld Inhabitants Co-Founder and current head, spoke with VG247 about how Microsoft presented their stance on indie games. Oddworld Inhabitants is the studio behind the Oddworld franchise, and Lanning has a lot to say on this issue. From where Lanning stands, Microsoft is ignoring indies with the Xbox One. "At the business level, Microsoft isn't acknowledging people...