We’re finally getting a look into which games and developers will be coming to the Xbox One because of ID@Xbox. As of right now over 250 developers are taking part in ID@Xbox, receiving Xbox One dev kits in order to produce games for the console. “Our goal has always been to make Xbox One the best place to play games, and that means having a diverse portfolio for gamers to choose from,” said Phil Spencer, corporate vice president of Microsoft Studios. “We’ve...
Schein is a 2D platformer in development for the PC by indie studio Zeppelin Studios. They started out as a group of students working on projects at their university where they began working together to develop a video game. The premise of Schein is that you’re a guy lost in a swamp and you’re trying to find a way out. Over the course of the journey puzzles, and pitfalls await to slow you down and trip you up. The core gameplay of Schein is what makes it unique...
Brothers – A Tale of Two Sons is a gorgeous top-down adventure puzzle game with an intriguing mechanic coming to XBLA. In development by Starbreeze Studios and being published by 505 Games, you play as two brothers who embark on a quest looking for a way to save their ailing father. You’ll play as both brothers simultaneously, using the left stick and trigger for the big brother, while using the right stick and trigger for the little brother. Brothers will also...
Dollar Dash, developed by Candygun Games, is coming soon to Xbox Live and PlayStation Network. According to press releases from the game’s publisher Kalypso, Dollar Dash will feature in-depth customization options and intense multiplayer action. Dollar Dash is a top down multiplayer shooter where campy crooks do their best to steal and sabotage their competitors. Using various types of weapons to achieve their goals of glorious loot. Dollar Dash could be one of those...
Ring Runner : Flight of the Sages is trying to make its way onto Steam by going through Steam Greenlight. From everything I’ve seen, read and heard about this game, Ring Runner seems to be something special although I have no idea. Couldn’t tell you personally about it at all, but Kenny can. Kenny Rioux previewed Ring Runner last week for us. Kenny is back at it this week checking out the new multiplayer beta that the devs have opened. On top of that, Ring Runner...
The Humble Bundle, we all know it. The bundle of indie games in which you pay almost nothing for. Well apparently that idea has cooked something up in the minds of the Cabrera Brothers, Thefreebundle.com. The Cabrera Brothers are bundling together great indie games, for free. You can’t even donate to the site if you wish. They literally don’t want your stupid money, crazy I know. The idea is to get great indie games that you may never heard of, into the hands of...
Sometimes, well maybe even more so then not, less is more. When a developer decides to keep their game focused on specific mechanics, it has the potential to polish these mechanics to an incredible shine. The little puzzle game Storm from indiePub is a perfect example of this. Storm bestowed upon me, the control over rain, wind and lightening, in order to move seedlings from tree to fertile soil. The controls were simple enough for a chimp, me, to understand; wind = left...
What’s more nerve racking, demons or monsters? In Outlast, you play as journalist Miles Upshur, as he acts on a tip about Murkoff Asylum. What he finds there may me one in the same. Murkoff Asylum was at one time, just that, an asylum for the loonies. Now it’s a charity, I know right? Outlast is the first title of a newly formed independent studio Red Barrels, founded by devs that have previously worked on titles such as Assassin’s Creed, Splinter Cell...
The Federation is losing the war against the rebels, and it’s up to your ship and small crew to deliver critical information to the waiting Federation fleet. (Help me Obi Wan Kenobi, you’re my only hope! Wait… Maybe I should have said Kirk.) Faster Than Light is a roguelike at heart, with procedurally generated environments and encounters. Gameplay focuses on exploration and ship-to-ship combat, and while it emphasizes tactics over hand speed, the action...
You know sometimes when you see a game and your brain just goes “…what?” Well that is what On the Level Game Sudios’ title, Curse of the Nordic Cove,is. This game is in a category all its own; that category being “First Person Golf Simulation/ Survival Horror game.” Yeah, you can go “awuhh” now. So here is what happened in this “Nordic Cove.” An archeologist named Dr. Howard Bre has unearthed an ancient burial site of an evil viking named Helfdane...
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