Monsters, mechs, and mayhem, oh my! It’s time once again to kick off our Game of the Month coverage and this month we’ve selected the newly released turn-based strategy juggernaut, Into the Breach. Developed by Subset Games, the team that brought us FTL, Into the…
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Back by popular (aka: EiC’s) demand, it’s time for Cliqist’s Game of the Month. We’ve done this in the past with both crowdfunded and not-so crowdfunded titles. Every month, our crack team of editors will select an exceptional indie game to highlight. To start things…
Remember our monthly “Not Crowdfunded, But…” series of articles? The idea behind it was that we would focus on one non-crowdfunded game per month. They were certainly fun to write, and tended to be very popular traffic wise (hellllloooo FNAF!), but they were outside the…
Remember our monthly “Not Crowdfunded, But…” series of articles? The idea behind it was that we would focus on one non-crowdfunded game per month. They were certainly fun to write, and tended to be very popular traffic wise (hellllloooo FNAF!), but they were outside the…
Every month we take some time out from covering the lovely world of crowdfunded games to focus on a single non-crowdfunded game. The game chosen for the Not Crowdfunded, But… game of the month honor isn’t necessarily the latest or greatest, but it’s one worth talking…
[dropcap size=big]W[/dropcap]hy project creators decide to take months at a time off between updates is beyond me, but at least hearing from the development team from time to time helps to show that the game’s not dead in the water. It’s been six months since…
Aivi Tran is well known for working with their partner surasshu on composing the musical score for Cartoon Network’s critically acclaimed and Emmy-winning animated series, Steven Universe. Known together as aivi & surasshu, the two give the show a video game-influenced soundtrack, filling it with…
The global game developer conference, Gamedev.world, starts today for anyone with an Internet connection. Created by Vlambeer co-founder Rami Ismail (Super Crate Box, Nuclear Throne) and voiceover artist Sarah Elmaleh (Katie in Gone Home, female Freelancer in Anthem), Gamedev.world is another free digital conference debuting…
Check out a game convention from the comfort of your home this weekend with LudoNarraCon, presented by indie label Fellow Traveller. As indicated by the title, the digital convention, hosted via Steam on May 10-13, will focus on narrative video games. To digitally replicate a…
Dedicated to making the sound of games, Chase Bethea interned at Mobotory games while studying music at Moorpark College. Besides earning his associate’s degree in Music Theory and Composition at Moorpark, he also went on to earn another associate’s in Audio Engineering from the Los…
EGX Rezzed, EGX‘s smaller, more indie-geared sibling, drew to a close this weekend after a three-day showcase of some of the most amazingly imaginative upcoming indie games due out over the next couple of years. With so many games out there on the show-floor, it’s…
Michael Mendheim has been the mad scientist of sports games since the original Mutant League Football released 26 years ago and shows no signs of slowing down. From Kickstarter failure and eventual success, to creative director of Digital Dreams Entertainment, the Mutant League commissioner for…
Ape Out is a frenetic beat ’em up game released last month. It was developed by Gabe Cuzzillo, Bennett Fody, and Matt Boch. Published by Devolver Digital, Ape Out plays like a shmup, despite the protagonist (an ape) not having a weapon. It’s gotten some…
It’s common to feel left out after year’s end, with seemingly everyone talking about all the great movies, shows and video games that you missed out on. Between games such as Celeste, Return of the Obra Dinn, and Florence, there were some real indie gems…
Even though Halloween isn’t for several months, 2019 promises a full year of scares with these upcoming horror titles. Indie horror has taken a quiet downturn recently, with notably polished releases becoming less and less frequent. It’ll be refreshing to see what these upcoming horror…
Stop me if you’ve heard this one before. A perhaps, well-intentioned politician sees the violence that is taking place on our streets and in our schools and decides he or she must do something about it. Instead of moving to make it harder to purchase assault…