Kids these days. What with their Twitters and Friendsters, it seems like they’re always getting into trouble. Case in point, Catacomb Kids from FourbitFriday follows some juvenile delinquents as they explore a dangerous underground fortress known as The Catacombs. These tiny adventurers, whether there as…
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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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John Master Lee, one of the guys behind the recently Kickstarted Spark Rising, is starting a grass roots campaign to help with victims of Super Typhoon Haiyan. As it tore through the Philippines with sustained winds approaching 200 mph, and gusts estimated to be over…
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Gridlock Tactics is a new project on Kickstarter that’s described as a mix between Front Mission, Xcom, Final Fantasy Tactics, and Shadowrun Returns. Pretty big shoes to fill! Set in a futuristic biopunk universe, Gridlock Tactics is a turn based RPG that features three main…
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We’re a little late to the party on this one, but it’s worth checking out anyway. Project Sen is a side scrolling sci-fi action platformer, so Mega Man meets Metroid, from a new team called Cakemachine Games. Project Sen stars a young heroine named Sen…
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Cinemaware is back on Kickstarter to make another go at getting an up to date version of their classic WW1 shooter, Wings, off the ground. The original Wings Kickstarter campaign from mid 2012 fell far short of its $350,000 goal after raising about $52,000. The…
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Eon Altar is a multiplayer turn based fantasy RPG. Big whoop right? Take a look at this : That’s right. Your mobile phones are essentially your character sheets, and the tablet in the middle is the central game screen everyone interacts with. It’s a…
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Everyone loves dinosaurs, don’t they? How about pixelated dinosaurs? Those are cool, right? Ok, so how about pixelated dinosaurs running for their lives while destroying everything in their path? Now take that and put it to an awesome retro-rad musical score and you’ve got a…
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Ready for a Kickstarter video that combines nightmare fueled concept art, and a beautifully serene soundtrack? Take a look at Bloom : Memories from Studio Fawn. Bloom is an action RPG that definitely gives a strong Zelda meets Ico vibe, not to mention a sprinkle…
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The closing line for Liminal Games’ Kickstarter video for the Memory of Eldurim is “There’s something powerful about a group of people that are willing to give everything without the certainty of success.” That sums up the reason Cliqist was started; to take a closer…
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The creators of the graphically stunning Amerzone and Syberia are back again with a new adventure game; and this time around they’ve gone the Kickstarter route. The new game, The Dead Flowers Case, should be familiar to any adventure gamers out there, with rich pre-rendered…
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Barrett Brooks is a guy that not only resembles some rather famous celebrities, but he’s also the project lead on Churbles, a cartoonishly adorable RPG currently in the midst of a Kickstarter campaign. In Churbles you play as a Churble, which is a basically a…
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The… lets call them curious. Yeah, curious works. The curious minds at Owlchemy are back with another project, and it looks just as bizzaringly* strange as their other projects. Dyscourse is a Choose Your Own Adventure style game in the sense that your decisions at…
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This farmyard animal combat game is less Animal Farm, and more closely resembles Charlotte’s Web on a bad day. Sweet little Nugget, that’s the gerbil looking guy, is reaching his limit when it comes to the other animals taking his food; and he’s not going…
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Zombies, werewolves, demons, angels, vampires, cultists, gangs, ghosts, and criminals; oh my! That’s who you’ll run into when you play Graywalkers, a tactical turn based RPG from Dreamlords Digital. This post apocalyptic melting pot doesn’t just have the usual Fallout inspired mutants, it’s got everything…
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Greenwood Game’s upcoming horror game, Alone, can be a little difficult to describe at first. On one hand it’s an FPS horror game starring a group of supernatural hunters set in the 1800’s. On the other hand it’s an immersive alternate reality horror game that uses…
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Guido Henkel, one of the minds behind such masterpieces as Planescape : Torment, and Realms of Arkania 3, is back in the RPG game, this time with Deathfire : Ruins of Nethermore. A first person single player hardcore RPG, Deathfire feels like Legend of Grimrock…