The indie gaming scene is exploding on PlayStation platforms this year. We’ve already heard about games like Lone Survivor, Hotline Miami, Thomas Was Alone, Guacamelee! and Dragon Fantasy Book II coming to PS3 and Vita, but these titles are only the tip of the iceberg.
Tonight at a Game Developers Conference press event, Sony announced key partnerships with top industry talent to further realize the PlayStation Network’s potential as the leading platform for indie console gaming across all current and future PlayStation systems. Yes, that means the PlayStation 4, which has added free-to-play FPS Blacklight: Retribution and dinosaur-hunting FPS Primal Carnage: Genesis to its early roster of self-published and independently developed games, joining Jonathan Blow’s ambitious puzzle game, The Witness.
New indie games announced for dual release on PS3 and Vita include the two-button fighting game Divekick from Iron Galaxy Studios and randomly-generated cave platformer Spelunky. Another game with support from the PlayStation Pub Fund is Metrico, an innovative, Vita-exclusive adventure that takes place within “an atmospheric infographic world, utilizing the PS Vita controls in a new way.” The Vita is also getting the first-ever portable edition of puzzle platformer Limbo.
PlayStation Mobile joins the indie party with these upcoming titles: A Virus Named Tom; Beatdown in Treachery City; Crumble; Crystallon; Don’t Wake the Bear; Hermit Crab in Space!; Oh, Deer!; Rymndkapsel; and Ten By Eight.
Stay tuned tonight and throughout the rest of the week as we bring to you additional info and assets for some of these upcoming PlayStation indies!
Matt Litten is a 28 year old from-the-womb gamer turned video game reviewer/blogger and current editor/owner/operator of VGBlogger.com. Matt got his first taste of gaming as a youngster on the NES and Atari, and the rest is history from there.
In 2004, three years removed from high school and still looking for a career direction in life, Matt landed his first gig in the video game review business writing for the now-defunct website BonusStage.com. After the sad and untimely close of BonusStage, the former staff went on to found VGBlogger.com, and after a short stint as US Site Manager for AceGamez Matt turned his attention to VGBlogger, and to this day is dedicated to making it one of the top video game blogs in all the blogosphere.
Matt is a fair-minded reviewer and lover of games of all platforms and types, big or small, hyped or niche, big-budget or indie. But that doesn't mean he will let poor games slide without a good thrashing when necessary. 