Festival of Magic is a cute looking hybrid of a game that features magic, fantastical creatures, turn based combat, an epic story, and…. farming. Yup, farming! You control Amon, a young desert scavenger on Umbra; a planet that has stopped spinning and is now cast…
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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.
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Cat Banana Studios have launched a Kickstarter campaign for their voxel filled sandbox game Imagine Nations, and they’re shooting for the stars. A mix of Civilization and Minecraft, Imagine Nations tasks players with growing their civilization from the Stone Age to the Space Age. Starting off…
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I gotta be honest, I’m really not sure what to think about this one. On the one hand I can appreciate the satire in making a cop a demonic beast in uniform out to kill all the bad guys. It has a very 90’s arcade…
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Dropsy isn’t your normal adventure game. This open world adventure game stars a curious looking clown that’s fallen on rough times since being kicked out of the circus after a horrific accident. Dropsy isn’t loved by all, he doesn’t speak, he has a burning desire…
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The Kickstarter video for Novus AEterno ends with developer Nick Nieuwoudt stating “If you want to play a game where you can build an expansive galactic empire, colonize solar systems, interact with thousands of other players, and run your empire the way you want to…
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Here’s one you may have already played, but not the way the developer intended. Treasurebear is a game that started out as a contest entry for game creation software Stencyl, and was somewhat inadvertently leaked to the world at large. It’s a fun side scroller…
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It’s that time again! Time to dig into the checking account to dig up fifty bucks and see what projects I’ll be backing this month. Sure it’s not a lot of money, but it’s a pretty realistic amount to set aside each month as a…
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The gang over at Druid Gameworks have returned to Kickstarter with their open world RPG Unwritten : Echoes of Twilight, and it looks like it was time well spent. There’s more game videos, a lot more information on the game itself, more consistent updates, a…
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After last night’s rambling look at Dex where I lamented the lack of modern cyberpunk culture and games, it’s only fitting that I come across another promising cyberpunk game; thanks a ton Alanis Morissette! Today’s cyberpunk tale is called Read Only Memories and comes to us courtesy…
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The Slaughter may sound like some sort of Manhunt inspired gore-fest, complete with murders, executions, and a bit of the ultra violence. And while The Slaughter isn’t as over-the-top as Manhunt, it might share more in common than you think. Set in jolly ol’ England,…
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Is it fair to say that cyberpunk has fallen out of favor? Sure, there’s a few cyberpunk games floating around, and a couple in development, but it not like it used to be. In the 90’s you couldn’t help but come across floppy haired teens…
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iNK Stories have launched the Kickstarter campaign for their history lesson of a game, 1979 Revolution. To say that 1979 uses the Iranian Revolution as a backdrop would be a bit of a misstatement, it uses that chaotic time almost as a character in the…
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Kickstarter officially launched in Australia and New Zealand yesterday with over 1700 projects up and running in the first 24 hours. Luckily for us only a dozen of them were in the video game category. Rather than picking through them we thought it might be…
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Kilobite’s Maksym Pashanin recently took some time to answer a few quick questions for us. Who exactly is Maksym Pashanin? He’s one of the guys behind the very promising isometric zombie rpg/shooter Confederate Express. As we’ve covered previously Confederate Express seems to be separating itself from…
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When was the golden era of gaming? Whatever was happening when you were 14. I forget who I stole that from, but it’s certainly true. Things always look better in hindsight, and games are no exception. Continuing that theme, we have RetroWorld from Scary Pixel. …
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Kickstarter announced today that projects originating out of Australia and New Zealand no longer have to find fronts in the states to legitimize their campaigns, they can do it themselves! After opening it’s doors to Canada a few months ago, the inclusion of our friends…