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Immortal Empire: Free to play, surprisingly good!

You've probably never heard of Jesse Attard, but he's a man with a pedigree. After all, he was the project lead on BioShock 2's multiplayer. With that game now wrapped up, Attard has founded Tact...

Kickstart the Gamma4 event, get some indie games

Kokoromi's yearly Gamma event has resulted in some pretty spectacular stuff. Passage, if you don't remember, was made specifically for entry into 2007's Gamma256 event. If you've ever played Pape...

Play the winners of TIGSource's Assemblee compo

Another TIGSource.com competition is complete, and now the rest of us have at least ten new indie games to waste a few hours with. We've reported on the Assemblee Competition before (short versio...

Indie games don't have to act like indie games

I try and be an open minded person. I work hard at improving my world view, I attempt to put aside all prejudice, and I always aim to accept different points of view. However, I have learned that...

Primal Carnage has team-based dinosaur vs. human fights

I'm not being hyperbolic when I say that was the greatest tech demo ever. The name of the game is Primal Carnage. Developed by indie team Lukewarm Media, it's a classic retelling of the tragic d...

Vote for your favorite indie game, win some Sessler

If you're into the idea of either (A) meeting Adam Sessler or (B) winning a thousand dollars by luck alone, then you may want to vote for the winner of Gamestop and G4's Indie Game Challenge. Th...

Indie game Cut & Paste lets you kill a mummy with the sun

Turtle Cream's Cut & Paste is a game I've briefly mentioned before. It was a student entry for this year's Independent Games Festival, and while it did not place (see the tough competition fo...

Double the pleasure, double the fun with Darwinia+

The life and times of an indie developer can be a tough one. For every celebrated and commercial success from the indie sphere, there are developers who slave and toil over their creation, well a...

GNILLEY: A game about yelling like a lunatic

Yep. That's about it, really. Glen Forrester's GNILLEY is a game in which you put those vocal cords of yours to good use by screaming into a microphone. Shouting allows you to move through barri...

Shoot 1UP deserves to be on your radar

Did that headline grab your attention? Good! Considering how many sloppy, hastily-designed games there are up on the Xbox LIVE Indie Games channel, even this far after launch, it's easy to lose f...

How to pay for indie games

I agree so much with this infographic that it actually hurts. Podtoid listeners are probably tired of hearing me bitch about gamers' unwillingness to spent fifteen bucks on stuff like VVVVVV whil...

VVVV: The 4KB Java demake of VVVVVV

Admittedly, that is going to be one heck of a confusing headline for anyone not acquainted with Terry Cavanagh's ridiculously fun platformer VVVVVV. I'm perfectly fine with that, though. If you d...

Reminder: European WiiWare demos end on January 31

The story goes like this -- Nintendo finally adds a few WiiWare demos to the Wii Shop Channel. After that, the five games that are graced with demos see a mild to extreme increase in sales. Peopl...

Canabalt soundtrack available, pay what you want (sorta)

If you don't already know what Canabalt is, just go here. If you do know, then hey -- you might be pleased to know that the soundtrack is now available for download. Each track costs a minimum of...

The Organic Indie Preorder Pack postmortem is a mouthful

A few weeks back, Wolfire Games and Unknown Worlds offered a preorder bundle that included both Overgrowth and Natural Selection 2. Yesterday, the overall results of that sale were released on th...

Interstellar Marines is both innovative and unoriginal

I'm torn. On the one hand, indie title Interstellar Marines has one of the coolest development structures I've yet seen. Leading up to an eventual release of a full game, the team is releasing sm...

The best indie games of '09 (that I forgot to mention)

With Indie Nation now all but defunct, I have to apologize: I haven't been pimping out great indie games as frequently as I used to. While games like Machinarium, Canabalt, Gridrunner Revolution ...

Only super-cool dudes can beat Flood the Chamber

About twenty minutes ago, the headline to this post would have been something along the lines of, "whomever made Flood the Chamber can go f*ck himself and die because he's a bad person and he cau...

Sadly scrapped: Arkedo's Natal game, 2-Finger Heroes

Last night, I was lamenting to the rest of the Podtoid crew that I've never found a sufficient answer to the Natal Question. It eventually gets compared to World War II, but that's neither here n...

Braid to be boxed, released in retail wild this January

Texas-based "casual games" publisher MumboJumbo is set to brave the retail waters with the PC version of Braid. Set to arrive this month, this packaged edition of the game won't have extras. It w...

Find time to play Assemblee's 73 free indie games

TIGSource's Assemblee competition is almost certainly something you aren't familiar with. It's an experiment of sorts, and a successful one at that. Users were asked to submit art and music; that...

So meaty! The life and times of Super Meat Boy

If there is one thing Edmund McMillen is known for, that is making videogames. A whole lot of them, actually, for if you look at his blog, everything from Time Fcuk to Gish rests as laurels upon ...

This Closure trailer may cause anticipation pains

It's a shame this first official trailer for Tyler Glaiel and Jon Schubbe's Closure flew completely under my radar when it made the rounds a few days ago -- the game is looking quite good, and i...

First details for Zeno Clash: Ultimate Edition emerge

Surely you didn't forget that ACE Team was bringing its super weird, super cool first-person brawler Zeno Clash over to Xbox LIVE Arcade with a little help from Atlus. Because if you did, that wo...

The Dishwasher announces Charlie Murder or something

Ska Studios (a.k.a. James Silva), best known for its Xbox LIVE titles The Dishwasher and I MAED A GAM3 W1TH Z0MB1ES 1N IT!!! has today announced its next title, Charlie Murder. Based on the like,...

2010 IGF Student Showcase winners may blow your mind

Here's the moment some of you (and myself) have been desperately awaiting: the ten Student Showcase winners for the 2010 Independent Games Festival, plus a slew of honorable mentions, have been ...

Flywrench flaps his way into Super Meat Boy

The indie game cameos just keep on coming. Super Meat Boy already has an impressive line-up of indie stars showing up in the game, but it isn't done yet. The guys behind the game have announced t...

The results of the Overgrowth/Natural Selection 2 contest

I had a damned difficult time choosing my nine favorite pieces of art y'all did for the Bunny on Alien Ultraviolence contest, but I did. Since I have to. In no particular order, the winners are: ...

The Misadventures of P.B. Winterbottom coming in Feburary

A lot of us here at Dtoid have been really excited about The Misadventures of P.B. Winterbottom for a long time. It wasn't too long ago that 2K Play announced that they would be publishing t...

Contest: Create bunny-on-alien ultraviolence, win games

Wolfire Games and Unknown Worlds have joined forces for the Overgrowth/Natural Selection 2 pre-order sale. For the next week only, you can pay $39.95 to not only pre-order both Overgrowth (the s...

Review: VVVVVV

Upon reading the list of 2010 IGF finalists, I had only one question: where the f*ck was VVVVVV? I know it's bad form to admit your opinion of a game before entering the review proper, but I'll j...

Crayon Physics lets you choose its price (Update)

A lot of times things cost too much; some times you find things that are a great deal. The similarity between these two occurrences is that you, the consumer, do not get to choose the price of th...

Left 4 Dead de-make festers with ikari quest warriors

That Left 4 Dead NES-looking demake is finished, and it's pretty fun. In case you couldn't tell from the headline, the game plays like a triple crossbreed between Left 4 Dead, Fester's Quest, and...

The 2010 IGF finalists are looking mighty fine

As you may or may not have already heard -- hopefully the former, since you are all about supporting the indie scene ... right? Right!? -- the finalists for the 12th Annual Independent Games Fest...

FACT: I'm going to sue the sh*t out of the Bit.Trip guys

A little while ago, Destructoid discovered that the next game in Gaijin Games' Bit.Trip series would be titled Bit.Trip RUNNER. Thanks to a low-res screenshot of the game in our most anticipated ...

Xbox Live Indie Game's top 20 rated games ending 2009

For anyone who has braved the wilds of Xbox Live Indie Games you know that it can be a dangerous place. One moment you can download a game that is the best thing ever made in the entire universe ...

Battle Beat lets you rock and control a small army

Those plastic guitars and drums in the corner gathering dust because you realized the advancing chords in Rock Band make you sick when you watch them? Are you, unlike Nick Chester, not constantl...

Start spreading the Love (beta) January 7th

Eskil Steenberg’s Love, the “not-so-MMO” first-person adventure videogame is no longer in Alpha testing. In a recent official Web site update, I’m left to assume that the ...

The most wanted Wii games of 2010

When we did this list last year, one of the best Wii games of 2009 (New Super Mario Bros. Wii) hadn't even been announced yet. That was just one of the surprises that Wii owners had in the last 1...

Let's Go Find El Dorado: Oregon Trail with 'physics'

Notice how I specifically say "physics" and not "realistic physics." Because, as far as I know, wagon-carrying cattle cannot leap from mountain to mountain; if only we lived in a world where suc...

Rev Rant: goo and trucks

Every week, sort of, features editor Anthony Burch discusses games and gamer culture in his "Rev Rant" video series. You can watch the previous rants here. If nothing else, this week's rant cert...

Make room on your shelf for Battle Kid, a new NES game

Confession time: I spent my holiday weekend playing Final Fantasy II. So I understand if, even in this age of bump mapping, lens flares, and bloom lighting, you feel the need to play games lacki...

Immortal Defense gets a 'pay what you want' sale

Even though Anthony has urged you all to download Immortal Defense a few times before, I think it's safe to assume many of you guys don't even know what the game actually is. Some of you hear the...

Indie game Every Day the Same Dream is drudge-tastic

This post is about Every Day the Same Dream, an indie game about the monotony of cubicle life and one man's attempt to escape it. Or not escape it. Or something. Now, I know what you're thinking....

Bit.Trip 4 is called Bit.Trip RUNNER, has Non Trotski

So, the next game in the (totally amazing) Bit.Trip series officially has a name now. It's called Bit.Trip RUNNER, which has my narcissism-sense tingling like crazy. You see, I worked on a game c...

Like puzzles? Spaceships? Bob Came in Pieces is only $10

You know what's cool? Instant gratification, that's what. If, for example, you get really jazzed over indie puzzle titles that combine the look and feel of Little Big Planet with core conceit of...

St. Nifflas drops indie platformer Saira under the tree

I'm about a week late with the news on this one, but Nifflas has released another game, titled Saira. Why should you care? Because Nifflas' games -- particularly Knytt Stories -- are among the mo...

Bit.Tonik: the game Robotube and Gaijin made in 24 hours

Earlier this month, Gaijin Games (of Bit.Trip fame) announced that they'd be teaming up with Jason Cirillo's Robotube Games for a 24-hour jam session at this year's Blip Festival. The idea was to...

Holiday card: Holiday wishes from PB Winterbottom

2K Play and developer The Odd Gentlemen sent along their holiday wishes this past weekend with this "Pie-tacular" The Misadventures of PB Winterbottom holiday card. Because I simply can't wait fo...

Sumotori Dreams: Drunken sumo wrestling for $4

  You might not have the exact name, Sumotori Dreams, tattooed on your brain, but many of you will instantly recognize the game as soon as you start up this video. Usually, physics-based gam...

2D zombeat-'em-up Twin Blades hitting Xbox Indie channel

I'm becoming increasingly impressed with the French indie scene, and not only because my last name is Leray. Joining Meckensleep (Soul Bubbles) and Golgoth Studios (awesome-looking Toki and Joe ...

AAAaaAAaaAAAaaAAA!!! A price drop!

If you haven't heard about AaaaaAAaaaAAAaaAAAAaAAAAA!!! -- A Reckless Disregard for Gravity, I have good news for you. Dejobaan Games' arcade-action-high-score-getting-skydiving-pedestrian-insult...

HL2 mod Post Script is about exploration, the apocalypse

I am currently of two minds about Post Script, an exploration-based episodic mod for Half-Life 2: Episode Two. You can get the mod here. Mind number one says, "this is great -- it's an atmospheri...

Meow Attack! Zoom into Arkedo Series 03 -- Pixel!

If you guys happened to miss my review for Swap!, you might not be familiar with Arkedo, an indie studio who have taken it upon themselves to develop and release one new game per month. (They al...

Grave Breaker is one part shooter, one part massager

Grave Breaker is the latest game from Edible Entertainment, the creators of Veks and Silence. The game is stand alone DLC which brings in two-player co-op, three survival stages and a special bo...

Review: Gratuitous Space Battles

Usually, most declarations of one game genre or another being "dead" are just hot air. That said, such sentiments are probably closest to truth when applied to space games. Space games are somewh...

Look for the XBLA version of Darwinia 'early next year'

Darwinia+, the lovely Darwinia/Multiwinia bundle for Xbox LIVE Arcade, is expected by indie developer Introversion Software to be ready for release "early next year." This was announced, of cours...

Shoot 1UP: The latest project from Mommy's Best Games

Mommy's Best Games? Who? Oh, you know. The developer behind such Xbox 360 indie games as Weapon of Choice and Grapple Buggy. The newest game to come from the mind of Nathan Fouts is called Shoot ...

Preview: Super Meat Boy

Super Meat Boy is already a success story. Thousands of free games hit Newgrounds every year, and for Meat Boy to rise above them all to be super-remade into a WiiWare/PC retail product is an ach...

M.U.L.E. gets a sleek new look, continues to torment me

M.U.L.E. Now there's a game I've heard a heck of a lot about, but was never really able or willing to fidget around with for long enough to "get it." Now that I think about it, sitting down and l...

Originals

Jim Sterling: How Aliens are blatantly better than Predators

Analyzing No More Heroes 2, part 2: The bosses, part 2

Destructoid interview: The music of BioShock 2

Indie games don't have to act like indie games

The art of The Journalism Show: Episode 03

Analyzing No More Heroes 2, part 1: The bosses

Ten things I didn't love about Final Fantasy XIII

Wah wah wah Sonic the Hedgehog 4!

Ten things I loved about Final Fantasy XIII

Rev Rant: Paragon/Renegade

Counterpoint: Mass Effect 2

The ugly truth: I may not be good at videogames

Is Heavy Rain doing videogames a disservice?

iPad: Likely to change gaming, just not yours

Rev Rant: the Wrex Paradox

The best indie games of '09 (that I forgot to mention)

Beyond Dead Space: Sledgehammer Games

How Darksiders is blatantly better than Zelda

The making of The Journalism Show: Episode 02

The simple math of review scores

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