Dieselstörmers is no more – not its title, anyway, as developer Black Forest Games has lost a legal battle with fashion label Diesel, as announced on the project’s Kickstarter page (and further detailed in a developer blog post). Wonder what they’re going to call the…
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Gary Alexander Stott is a handsome young writer from Scotland absolutely brimming with talent, who feels his best feature is his modesty. When it comes to overthinking narrative and storytelling in games, his otherwise useless degree in English with Creative Writing comes in very handy indeed.
It’s become something of a cliché in games journalism to describe a project’s art style as ‘retro’, but if ever there were a game to use it for, it would be Haque. Haque is a roguelike fantasy RPG that looks like something from the early…
Mouses at the ready, folks. Clay-animated point and click adventure game Armikrog is out now on all your favorite digital distribution platforms. The passion project of Earthworm Jim creator Doug TenNapel, Armikrog is a perfect demonstration of everything that’s great about crowdfunding. After all, what…
Home Free, the first Kickstarter project from Kevin Cancienne, is off to an amazing start. The campaign has only just launched and has already earned more than half of its $50,000 funding goal. Why? Because people love dogs, that’s why, and Home Free has them…
Spanish developer Iction Games wants to bring the 80s back to life with Mambo, a top-down arcade shooter newly arrived on Kickstarter. Inspired by retro classics such as Ikari Warriors, Commando, and (no surprises here) Rambo, the game hopes to raise €9,000 by Halloween. So,…
Essence is a strange one. Imagine Skyrim’s world fused with Everybody’s Gone to the Rapture-esque gameplay, with a little touch of abstraction thrown in for good measure. That’s pretty much the gist. A walking simulator of sorts, one in which the environment is altered as…
Fans of dinosaurs, jetpacks and mechs (which is to say: everybody) should take note, as Guardians of Orion has arrived on Kickstarter. The latest project from Trek Industries is aiming to raise a total of $200,000, and has until the 27th of October to do…
Afterland‘s heading for a global release on October 1st, according to an update posted to the project’s Kickstarter page. The hand-painted card game will be released on both iOS and Android devices. Having only played Hearthstone, I’m no expert when it comes to digital card…
Hello, Neighbor!, the voyeuristic first-person tactical puzzler from Russian developer Dynamic Pixels, is set to launch its very own Kickstarter campaign in about two weeks’ time. The game features a rather interesting and unique premise, and is quite unlike anything I’ve seen recently. Players control…
‘De Mambo is what happens when you make a game for the price of a coffee a day’. So reads the description on the the project’s Kickstarter page, anyway. Indie developer The Dangerous Kitchen has been working on their passion project not in a professional…
Back in April, developer John Draisey had a rather ambitious idea. The forming managing editor of PlayStation Lifestyle sought to develop a 3D story-driven racing game about rabbits. Part Mario Kart, part Sonic the Hedgehog, the title would be known as Rabbit Run. A wacky…
There’s a new crowdfunding campaign on the way – this time, it’s for Chronicles of Elyria. The developer states that the title would be crowdfunding in early 2016. Chronicles of Elyria is an upcoming MMORPG with a wonderfully intriguing twist: characters age and eventually die, forcing the…
If you were dreaming of a white Christmas, dream on. Bloody hack and slasher Slain! is set to release on PC the 9th of December, 2015, ensuring there’ll be plenty of crimson to go around this festive season. PS4 and Xbox One players, however, will…
Looks like story-driven RPG The Dwarves is about to leave the fantasy realm and become reality. With 4,156 backers and $217,051 already raised towards its $260,000 goal, the project still has two weeks left until deadline. Indeed, all things considered, it seems like a safe…
After 5 months in the dark, Creepy Castle has resurfaced with a progress report. In an update posted to the project’s Kickstarter page, indie developer Dopterra first apologises to the 271 backers who pledged $8,485 to bring the project to life for the lack of…
Dex developer Dreadlocks have broken their silence on the Wii U and Ouya versions of the sidescrolling cyberpunk RPG. Owners of these systems need not worry: Dex is still on its way, with a targeted release window of Q1 2016 for these systems (though possibly…