Indie Gaming Archive

  • Surprise! Mars: War Logs is Out Now on Steam

    Surprise! Mars: War Logs is Out Now on Steam

    Talk about coming out of nowhere. Without any prior release date announcement (other than being listed for spring 2013), the last thing I expected to wake up to this morning was the PC launch of Mars: War Logs, the sci-fi RPG from Of Orcs and […]

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  • Indie Quickie: Nimble Quest

    Indie Quickie: Nimble Quest

    It takes a lot longer to fully review a game than it does to get a good sense of what a game is. Even with a full-time staff of writers it would be impossible to fully review the thousands of games that are released every […]

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  • Review: Organ Trail: Director’s Cut

    Review: Organ Trail: Director’s Cut

    For some reason when I was a youth, my parents decided to buy an Apple II personal computer system.  Most of the games we had for it were pretty horrible, but I was allowed to play them all I wanted because they were supposed to […]

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  • Indie Quickie: Containment: The Zombie Puzzler

    Indie Quickie: Containment: The Zombie Puzzler

    It takes a lot longer to fully review a game than it does to get a good sense of what a game is. Even with a full-time staff of writers it would be impossible to fully review the thousands of games that are released every […]

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  • Namco Bandai Signs IndiePub Titles Storm, Capsized and Vessel for Console Digital Distribution

    Namco Bandai Signs IndiePub Titles Storm, Capsized and Vessel for Console Digital Distribution

    Amidst the Gamers Day hype for its bigger games like Dark Souls II, Project X Zone and Tales of Xillia, Namco Bandai has quietly announced a partnership with indiePub Entertainment to bring three indie games to home console platforms. Storm, Capsized and Vessel, three titles […]

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  • Catch Spring Fever with Four Hot PlayStation Indies

    Catch Spring Fever with Four Hot PlayStation Indies

    Sony’s annual Spring Fever PlayStation Network promotion is officially underway, bringing PS3 and Vita gamers four hot indie games over the next four weeks in April. Spring Fever opens with today’s release of Guacamelee!, the metroid-vania brawler inspired by Mexican folklore that we’ve been looking […]

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  • Here, Have Some Heavy Gear Assault Wallpapers

    Here, Have Some Heavy Gear Assault Wallpapers

    Wanna adorn your desktop with images of giant robots engaged in arena battles for sport? Well, you’re in luck! Heavy Gear Assault, the Unreal Engine 4-fueled multiplayer mech combat game from Stompy Bot Productions and MekTek Studios, just had its official website updated with some […]

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  • Torchlight II Releases GUTS Mod Editor, Domesticates Headcrabs

    Torchlight II Releases GUTS Mod Editor, Domesticates Headcrabs

    Torchlight II returns to relevance this week with the release of a massive content update. Modders will be most delighted to hear that Runic’s official in-house development toolset, known as GUTS, is now available for public use. By editing anything and everything, from items and […]

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  • Stealth Bastard is Sneaking Onto PS3 and Vita, But First He Needs a Less Naughty Name

    Stealth Bastard is Sneaking Onto PS3 and Vita, But First He Needs a Less Naughty Name

    Curve Studios sure is busy with indie PlayStation Network development duties this year. The studio behind Fluidity and Explodemon! is already working on the PlayStation versions of Thomas Was Alone and Lone Survivor, and now you can add one more game to the list. The […]

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  • Velocity Ultra Presents its Vita-Specific Upgrades

    Velocity Ultra Presents its Vita-Specific Upgrades

    FuturLab’s critically acclaimed PlayStation Minis vertical-scrolling shmup is teleporting onto PlayStation Vita this May. While the original can already be played on a Vita as is, Velocity Ultra has been overhauled to take full advantage of the platform’s increased power and playability over the PSP. […]

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