by Elizabeth Freeman | Dec 27, 2018 | Indie, News, News Section, Videogames
The Games with Gold for January 2019 are a bit of a mixed bag. Subscribers get the top indie game of 2018, but not much more. Celeste is a fantastic indie game that just about every gamer can enjoy and if you don't already own it, then January is a good month. But if...
by Nicholas Armstrong | Dec 27, 2018 | Indie, News, News Section, Videogames
MINImax Tinyverse is the newest take on the tower-rush genre. Similar to tower defense games, tower-rush games focus on quickly deploying units against an opponent in order to reach their base or master. This typically involves many different types of units as well as...
by Jordan Love | Dec 26, 2018 | Indie, News, News Section, Videogames
One Reddit user really got into the holiday spirit this year when they decided to give away hundreds of free steam games on Christmas day. Redditor u/graydoggames made a post on r/humblebundles promising a free game to anyone who commented, no strings attached....
by Nicholas Armstrong | Dec 26, 2018 | Indie, News, News Section, Videogames
Discord has just finished a new funding round that has been hugely successful by any measurement. Beating out previous funding reports for esports and many developers, Discord walked away with $150 million, pulling in investments from a number of technology investors...
by Steven Lunn | Dec 26, 2018 | Indie, News, News Section, Videogames
Doing a proper game launch is difficult, but doing one as spectacularly bad as Grapeseed Games’ Atlas is an art. For those that have not heard of it, Atlas was to be a truly expansive and immersive MMO. It boasted huge worlds where players could set out to sea, man...
by Charles Rathbone | Dec 21, 2018 | Indie, News, News Section, Videogames
Niantic has been pretty successful with a little AR game called Pokemon GO, even if a lot of people don’t actually use the AR function in the game. They’ve grown so successful in fact, that they’re now worth an estimated $3.9 billion. Now they’re ready to give a...
by Nicholas Armstrong | Dec 21, 2018 | Indie, News, News Section, Videogames
Cloud Imperium, the company behind Star Citizen and Squadron 42, has secured $42 million in outside investment. Unlike previous funding, this money comes completely from outside corporations, and it was given over in exchange for 10% of the shares of both the US and...
by Jordan Love | Dec 20, 2018 | Indie, News, News Section, Videogames
The story of Geneshift is a short one, despite spanning over nine years. The story goes that a man named Ben created a tiny GTA2-inspired shooter all by himself, and it took about nine years. Then he added a battle royale mode because Reddit told him he should....
by Nicholas Armstrong | Dec 20, 2018 | Indie, News, News Section, Videogames
Looking at ATOM RPG: Post-apocalyptic indie game (that is the full title), most people would be struck by how much it looks like Fallout 1 and Fallout 2. In fact, it looks like a graphically updated version of either, maybe with a bit more of the realistic wastelands...
by Nicholas Armstrong | Dec 17, 2018 | Indie, News, News Section, Videogames
In 2019, the war for digital distribution is officially on. Discord has jumped into the ring, joining Valve and Epic Games by offering the highest revenue split for developers yet. The company announced days ago that after assessing the true cost of distribution, they...
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