The long expected follow-up to Cave Story, the indie game which started it all, is finally ready and available for download. Kero Blaster follows the day job of a heroic bipedal frog who is tasked with cleaning his company’s teleportation device of beasts of the strangest kind. Kero Blaster can be picked up at Playism.com for $7.99, or players can even opt to bundle it with the...
Before it was tapped to lead the charge into that brief and embarrassing plastic instrument era of gaming, Harmonix created a few original PlayStation 2 rhythm games which enjoyed a lot of praise from the few who played them. Frequency and Amplitude were minor hits for the blooming game developer, but their quality led them into the big leagues by being offered work on both Guitar Hero...
Is a 2 hour game worth $20? Should we be upset that a Call of Duty has a 4 hour campaign? Is one of Persona 4's biggest selling points its 80+ hour storyline?
Sony is really doing a great job painting PlayStation as a friend of the indie gamer. Sony now sports the most friendly atmosphere to get games published on the console scene, and cross-buy options even take most of them on the road with the PS Vita. 1,000 developers have been licensed to develop for all three major PlayStation platforms, and over 20 million of 21 self-published games...
Yeah, forget that whole idea about Coffee Stain Games not supporting Goat Simulator after it launches. A highly anticipated version 1.1 of the grassroots hit is on the way, and the team has teased us with the latest feature in a brand new short trailer. Two words: Goat Parkour. Post by Goat Simulator. Yeah, the goat has already survived car accidents, exploding gas stations, and...
John Woo and Hotline Miami are both products of the 1980s. One is a legendary film director who revolutionized Hong Kong action flicks and police dramas, and the other is an acid trip indie game from a few years ago inspired by violent drug films like Scarface. Same era, two totally different styles. What would you get if you if you blended them together? The Hong Kong Massacre does...
Oh my… Maybe Bandai Namco and Artdink should start looking to the fans for influence on how to make its Dragon Ball Z games. The most recent game, Dragon Ball Z: Battle of Z, was released to a mediocre reception, but if it looked or sounded like this fan made Hyper Dragon Ball Z, I think it might have done better. Fans have been working on this Mugen-based Dragon Ball Z game for quite...
Oh, the days when RPGs were made of plucky little sprites and simple mechanics. How I long for such an innocent time. Luckily, the indie scene has old timers like me covered with a wide range of gems allowing me to slip back into my childhood and keep my longing to a minimum. The latest of these hails from newly founded indie studio, Grimm Bros. Founders Ash Monif and Randis Albion,...
I don't know about you, but I am happy to live in a world where I get to play Mighty No. 9. What seemed like an impossible dream all but two or three years ago is now a reality, and here we are seeing Mega Man co-creator Keiji Inafune getting back in the driver's seat of the genre that made him famous. It would be easy to blindly dismiss Mighty No. 9 as just a Mega Man clone, and it...
Oh, now here is a touchy subject. Pillars of Eternity was a massively successful crowd-funded RPG which raised over $4 million through PayPal and Kickstarter. With those funds, developer Obsidian promised to publish the game themselves with the hope of keeping its creative vision within its own grasp. At GDC, Obsidian has also just announced that it has partnered with Paradox...