By Nathaniel Liles [divider] When I finished Strike Suit Zero’s first campaign, I was a little underwhelmed by the game’s diversity of gameplay and overall personality, but the game itself was so close to being everything I’d ever hoped for, so when I was given…
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By Nathaniel Liles [divider] When I was a kid, I loved Crimson Skies. We had it all, my mom’s boyfriend would bring over his fancy joystick and his throttle (there’s no less weird way to say it) and I’d fly into the ground time and…
Who in the world is Lobster Sundew? Lobster, otherwise known as Ian Kragh, is one of the most prolific miners of Kickstarter video game data around. Read almost any Kickstarter thread in a video game forum and you’ll most likely seem him chime in with…
It’s that time of year again, summer video game sales! GOG was first out of the gate with their sale, and they started things off strong with some amazing deals. In the interest of showing off the large number of great Kickstarter funded games available, as well…
How many Kickstarter-funded games make it to the PlayStation 4? Almost every Kickstarter campaign for a video game has PC as their target platform. It’s only an elite few who aim to bring their game to a console, and fewer still who manage it. Indeed,…
The Big List of Discounted Crowdfunded Games in the 2014 Steam Holiday Sale by Marcus Estrada [dropcap]T[/dropcap]he annual Steam Holiday Sale is now upon us! No matter what you may or may not celebrate personally, it’s incredibly hard for PC gamers to ignore this event….
Kickstarter’s Top 50: How Good Are They? by Marcus Estrada [dropcap]D[/dropcap]espite being around for many years, it wasn’t until a few massive projects landed on the site that most video game players earnestly began to back projects. It’s fitting that the project that started this…
When you look at Shiness, it doesn’t look like an indie game. Not to say it’s a bad thing, but indie games typically stick to simpler art styles, usually 2D, to make it easier for small teams to accomplish a decent level of polish. Shiness,…
A good physics/puzzle game is hard to come by, and run-of-the-mill games like Angry Birds pigeonhole the genre and define it as something shallow and marketable, the gaming equivalent of snack food. Ynnis Interactive, the people who brought us the crowdfunded space combat game Strike…
After appearing at PAX East and Day of the Devs during GDC, mutant soap opera Mutazione will be one of over 20 games exhibited at the digital convention LudoNarraCon hosted on Steam this weekend. Developed by Die Gute Fabrik, the game’s story begins when a meteor…
Spinnortality is a game that knows what it is good at, it’s currently available on Steam. It finds its own strengths and amplifies them for the rest of the experience. It’s by no means perfect, but what it does well it does a lot of. The game…
You can’t keep a good psychotic, alternate dimension thriller down. That’s the saying right? No matter, in the case of Shadow Knights Studios it’s entirely true. Their game, The Lighthouse, first showed up on Kickstarter back in January. After a DMCA strike mistakenly took the campaign…
In September 2012, Studio Nasu managed to raise $33,643 USD through Kickstarter for their game Crisis Heart Brawlers: Clash at Otakon. It was billed as a “classic arcade style side scrolling beat ‘em up” in the style of other fighters like Castle Crashers and the…
“Be careful with the other lot. They owe a lot of people lots of money. Numerous Kickstarter’s, failing to deliver to backers, failing to pay for PR services, art work, sounds and more. They’ve done this to me and five others.” It was a warm…
Every week we take a brief look at all of the Kickstarter video game campaigns that launched in the previous week. This isn’t to say that all of these projects are worth your hard earned cash, but with any luck having all of them in…
[dropcap size=big]T[/dropcap]here Came an Echo from Iridium Games is a sci-fi strategy game that’s fully voice-controlled. It’s certainly a unique premise for a game, but is it well-executed? My initial experiences with There Came an Echo were highly negative ones. When I first launched the game,…