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Boston Indie Showcase Winners Announced

With PAX East next month, there’s no better time to get excited since the winners of the Boston Indie Showcase have been announced. All three of these titles will be shown at PAX East for your enjoyment, so if you’re headed to Boston in March, be sure to stop by and show these developers your [...]

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Alpha: Survivors of Ragnarok

Arguably one of the best aspects of indie game development is watching how a project matures from its alpha state into a full release that is ready to play. The transformation of Minecraft over the past two years or so has captivated the world as notch has improved upon the game to give us something [...]

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Onslaught! Arena Free On Valentine’s Day

In celebration of Saint Valentinus taking a few arrows from those pesky Romans, the guys over at Lost Decade Games are offering Onslaught! Arena for free on Valentine’s Day only. Normally the game would set you back a smooth $1.99 in the Chrome Web Store, but you can fling all manner of weapons at monsters [...]

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New Release: Atom Zombie Smasher

If you’re not familiar with Brendon Chung, you should be. He’s the fantastic chap behind Blendo Games and such wonderful creations as Gravity Bone and Flotilla. Last night he released his latest game, Atom Zombie Smasher, and it has single handedly consumed most of my night. Part tower defense game, part strategy, Atom Zombie Smasher [...]

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Magicka Release Set For Jan. 25th

Are you ready to put on your robe and wizard hat? I’ve been following the development of Magicka since early last year and despite a few setbacks, developer Arrowhead Games and publisher Paradox Interactive have finally set a street date for Magicka, which is January 25th for online release. That’s in two days. For those [...]

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…And A Happy New Year!

Happy New Year! That probably could have been said a few weeks ago, but life threw a couple of curve balls our way and we’ve been batting less than a thousand trying to deal with them. Anyhow, we’ve got some very exciting updates to the indie gaming world over the past few months, including the [...]

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Check Out Onslaught! Arena

The Chrome Web Store was released a few weeks ago with a handful of games available and some that deserve notable mentions. Entanglement is a completely awesome puzzle-connect-the-hexagons game that is free and is a good introduction to some of the quality games available on the web store. However, the game that has me most [...]

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Reminder: IndieDB Awards!

The first annual IndieDB Game of the Year awards are currently in swing over at IndieDB where you decide which games are fit to win. Currently there are less than 10 days for anyone and everyone to vote for their favorite indie games. The first round of voting narrowed the finalists down to 100 indie [...]

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Ms. Splosion Man Announced

You’ve sploded by yourself. You’ve sploded with friends. But you’ve never sploded… with a bow. Twisted Pixel is here to fix that glaring oversight with their Ms. Splosion Man reveal early this morning via GameTrailers TV. Comic Jumper was an interesting game, but the controls were a little wonky and while I didn’t get as [...]