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Owlboy gets new footage and some lovely music
It's been quite a while since we checked in with D-Pad Studios' Owlboy, but the promising indie game has popped its head up again to reveal some lavish game footage and a terrific soundtrack sample courtesy of composer Jonathan Greer. You can watch and listen to it all in the provided video. Looking good, right? I know I'm excited. Hopefully we see a lot more soon. It's been a very long time coming. Did you know? You can now get daily or weekly email notifications when humans reply to your comments.
10:30 PM on 05.23.2013 Japanese indie shmup trilogy Tale of Alltynex gets fundedNyu Media has successfully concluded its Kickstarter campaign to localize a trilogy of Japanese indie shoot-'em ups, The Tale of Alltynex, the doujinsoft publisher has announced. Inspired by Taito's RayStorm series, The...
7:30 PM on 05.23.2013 Fight for free this weekend in Chivalry: Medieval WarfareThis weekend until 2:00PM Eastern on Sunday you can play an awesome first-person medieval battle game Chivalry: Medieval Warfare for free. Head on over to the Steam page to download it and start playing. If you deci...
3:30 PM on 05.23.2013 Super Splatters will be out on Steam in late JuneSpikySnail Games is targeting a June release on Steam for its enhanced-for-Windows/Mac/Linux Super Splatters. The physics-based puzzler provided a good deal of fun in its original Xbox Live Arcade incarnation, and this new In...
3:00 PM on 05.23.2013 Spot all the new stuff in this Terraria 1.2 preview videoEarly last year, Terraria developer Redigit released a statement that there would be no more major updates to the 2D open-world phenomenon, citing fatherhood as the main reason for moving on. Fortunately for fans of the game...
10:30 PM on 05.22.2013 Raise your badger children in Might and Delight's ShelterLife as a mother badger doesn't strike me as something that would be particularly easy, but conflict sure does make for an interesting story. Pid developer Might and Magic is going where no one to my knowledge has gone befor...
6:30 PM on 05.22.2013 Devs express disappointment with Xbox One over TwitterMicrosoft's Matt Booty affirmed earlier today that digital publishing policies on Xbox One would be no different than they were on Xbox 360. Any hope that Microsoft would right the ship that has inconvenienced a good number o...
12:30 PM on 05.22.2013 Xboned! Indies can't self-publish on Xbox One[Castle Vidcons by Tyler Rhodes] Both Sony and Nintendo are bending over backwards to make their platforms as attractive to indie developers as possible, from waived licensing fees to free patching. Microsoft has been slippin...
11:00 PM on 05.21.2013 Put on your ninja shoes, N v2.0 is playable nowBy now, we've seen the big reveals of the PlayStation 4 and the Xbox One, and I can safely declare a winner: PC. Why? Because just a few days ago, Metanet Software released a huge update to its diabolical ninja platformer N,...
8:00 PM on 05.21.2013 Terry Cavanagh teases new puzzle game Halting ProblemTerry Cavanagh is known for making some of the most brutally difficult, yet immensely satisfying games. VVVVVV showcased some downright masochistic platforming, and Super Hexagon provided twitch gaming that evoked an almost r...
5:00 PM on 05.21.2013 Review: Sanctum 2I think the first Sanctum game surprised a lot of people. It took the intellectual strategy aspect of tower defense games and combined it with the more action-oriented first-person shooter genre to create a unique, wonderful ...
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| 11:30 AM on 08.22.2011 Impressions: a promising Owlboy demo teases |

The Owlboy demo makes a good first impression -- after D-Pad Studio's logo flashes, players are treated to a sweeping, pixelated vista as Otus looks on. Pastoral music plays and, though the demo begins in medias res, the menu...more
| 8:00 PM on 08.21.2011 The Owlboy demo is both available and good |

A demo for Owlboy, the much talked-about 2D platformer from Norwegian indies D-Pad Studio, is now available for PC -- a good sign for a game beset my development trouble, despite winning a visual design award at the 2010...more
| 8:00 AM on 05.21.2013 WayForward: Shantae dances to Nintendo 3DS on June 20 |
The original Shantae is coming to Nintendo 3DS Virtual Console on June 20, WayForward has announced. Originally released in the dying days of the Game Boy Color, the acclaimed platformer managed to garner a pair of seque...more
| 5:00 AM on 05.21.2013 Tearaway pre-orders will include the wonderful soundtrack |
Tearaway is one of my most anticipated games of the year now thanks to some recent hands-on time. It's a wonderful little platformer that makes use of all the Vita's features in creative ways. It also has quite the wonderful ...more
| 4:00 PM on 05.20.2013 This custom Trials Evolution track boggles the mind |
When Trials Evolution released last year, I played around with the level editor enough to see huge potential in it and also to understand that I could never personally tap into that potential. Thankfully, there are people li...more


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