It’s weird to look back at gaming’s history and see how genres have ebbed and flowed in popularity. During the 90s it seemed like action/puzzle hybrids were the “in” thing. Although some games remained in Japan, such as Tetris Battle Gaiden, popular series such as…
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Serenity and Diana Discuss Gender and Sexuality in Queen At Arms with Marcus Estrada [divider] Queen At Arms is an upcoming visual novel that was successfully funded not long after going live on Kickstarter. It seems that what genre fans were looking for was a…
Veteran Japanese Gave Dev IndieGogo Campaign Draws Suspicions by Ahmad Khan [divider] X-tactics, by Tokyo based Gamkin, is an “Episodic Urban Tactical RPG by veterans of Square-Enix, Capcom and SEGA. With co-op and location-based treasure hunting” according to its IndieGogo page. The creators of the…
Every week we take a brief look at all of the Kickstarter 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 one place…
Hear ye, hear ye, extra, extra, or… Something like that. It’s news time. Time for the news. The time specifically set aside for you to read the news. That time. And what a great time it is! This Sunday, I’ll be telling the stranger-than-fiction tales…
I’ve been sitting here trying to figure out how to start telling you about Paradigm; a bizarre looking adventure game from Jacob Janerka. At first I was going to say that I’ve never done mass amounts of coke, but if I had, and decided to…
Elliot Collis on his Hand Painted Adventure, desolate with Greg Micek [divider] [dropcap]d[/dropcap]esolate – no capitalization, please – is a new adventure platformer from Elliot Collis that’s in the midst of a Kickstarter funding campaign. The game tackles some pretty heavy topics, including depression, abandonment, sacrifice,…
Why aren’t westerns more popular in video game format? Sure, there’s a few here and there but not a ton overall. Six Miles Under is a new project looking to take on a western style to the fullest with a story about truth and revenge….
The team at Pardis Game Studio love comic books. It’s because of this that they’ve been working on a game inspired by the likes of Sin City and The Boys for two years. The Dark Phantom is that project and is a third person shooter…
Roguelikes, roguelikes, roguelikes! It seems that so many video games announced and out today include this gaming buzzword. Band Saga is yet another that defines itself as roguelike, but actually appears to take those conventions to heart. The game focuses on two friends in a…
It’s a bit of a tradition that whenever I interview someone for Cliqist I ask them to put together a brief haiku to describe them, their company, or their game. Since we’re celebrating the one year anniversary of Cliqist this week I figure it would be…
Every week we take a brief look at all of the Kickstarter 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 one place…
The Art of Transistor By Suzanne Verras Transistor is our August 2014 “Not Crowdfunded, But…” title. For more Transistor content head over here. [divider] I’ve played Bastion and I enjoyed it, but I had not taken a peek at Transistor yet. I knew I had to, even if it…
Bill Tiller Discusses Monkey Island Inspired Adventure, Duke Grabowski with Greg Micek [divider] Cliqist : Who are you, and why are we talking to you? Bill Tiller : We are three experienced game developers and we are making a short graphic adventure comedy. I’m going…
Snow-Bound Shootout. Kôna VS The Long Dark By Julie Morley [divider] Kôna, developed by Parabole from Quebec, launched on Kickstarter recently and there’s a lot of people excited about it. Upon reading through the Kickstarter page and getting a feel for what this game is…
Matt Raithel Discusses Alien Shooter Orgy Hive Jump with Greg Micek [divider] Hive Jump, the over the top multiplayer platformer from Graphite Lab, has had an up and down relationship with Kickstarter. The first campaign was an unfortunate dud for a variety of reasons. However, a…