Our very own Nathaniel Liles is celebrating his birthday today, isn’t that great? You may know Nathaniel by his extensive contributions to Cliqist since joining the team this past January, including his review of Goat Simulator, his numerous announcements, and his coverage of A Hat…
Greg Micek
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Greg Micek has been writing on and off about games since the late nineties, always with a focus on indie games. He started DIYGames.com in 2000, which was one of the earliest gaming sites to focus exclusively on indie games.
Greg Micek
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Welcome to our new weekly feature, “Question Of The Week.” As you can tell from that entirely original title we’ll have a different question posed to our staff of writers every week and they chime in with their opinions. No one sees one another’s responses…
Greg Micek
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You’ve most likely already read about the whole Facebook buying Oculus VR situation. The popular-yet-hated social media company purchased the makers of the much buzzed about Rift virtual reality helmet this week for $2 Billion, much to the frustration of gamers across the internet. Fears…
Greg Micek
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Wings: Remastered Edition, the hopefully epic upgrading of Cinemaware’s classic WWI fighter game, is chugging along the development tracks after a successful Kickstarter campaign in December 2013.. Recent updates detailed items such as the musical score, their continued journey on Steam Greenlight, the opening of…
Greg Micek
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Are you familiar with The Red Solstice yet? It’s the top down strategic shooter from Ironward that’s currently on Kickstarter. Earlier this week we did a recap of the free gameplay demo; if you haven’t read it yet you can check it out here. After…
Greg Micek
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The recently launched Kickstarter campaign for The Seed is an unusual one. At first glance it looks pretty normal, popular MOD team MDT is attempting to create their own game; a post apocalyptic one that doesn’t stray too far from their familiar settings. However, when…
Greg Micek
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PeriAreion, the max settlement strategy game we’ve looked at previously, recently hit its humble $3,000 Kickstarter funding goal. That’s no small feat considering the being created by a team of rookies straight out of school, and launched on almost the exact same day as a…
Greg Micek
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Ever since Exploding Rabbit announced earlier this week that their Kickstarter funded 2D platformer Super Action Squad, originally funded under the name Super Retro Squad, was being put on hold it’s been a bit of a mess. Gaming sites publishing snide articles asking how a…
Greg Micek
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The future of space exploration is almost never approached as a happy subject in videogames, there’s always a tidy mix of blood, despair, weapons, and futility. So how about The Red Solstice from Croatian developers Ironward; does it cast a positive light on Martian terraforming,…
Greg Micek
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When I first read The Road I was completely overwhelmed. Cormac McCarthy’s story of a man and his son in the post apocalyptic hellscape that Earth had become suffocated me mentally and emotionally. During the few days that it took me to complete the book…
Greg Micek
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Have you heard about the Frog Fractions sequel currently on Kickstarter? Well it’s not. See, rather than create a straight sequel to the cult favorite Frog Fractions, Twin Beard seems to be creating a sequel to the bizarre experience. Does that make sense? If it…
Greg Micek
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David Welch of Experimental Gamer isn’t having a great day. What’s wrong exactly? His western RPG Boot Hill Heroes is having a hard time getting on Steam. To be more specific, the games’ Steam Greenlight campaign was going pretty well for a while, and it…
Greg Micek
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I was never a fan of the original Carmageddon, which is weird because I was square in the target demographic when it came out. 21 year old male that loved videogame violence with a high end PC; I should have been all over it, but…
Greg Micek
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There’s a space combat game that had a wildly successful Kickstarter campaign, has some gorgeous visuals, comes from some very experienced developers, and promises the universe. No, it’s not Star Citizen, I’m talking about Elite: Dangerous, and it’s getting closer to release every day. While…
Greg Micek
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Goats are fine and all, but why play as an ugly goat when you can play as a beautifully deadly bear? You just might get your chance if Farjay Studios can raise $29,500 by April 17th for their game, Bear Simulator. Unlike the third person…
Greg Micek
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Sad news from the team at Exploding Rabbit, creators of the retro styled 2D platformer Super Action Squad, they’ve announced that production of SAS is on hold. In a developer update on the Exploding Rabbit website lead designer Jay Pavlina states that after raising over…