GaymerX2. How Was The Show? By Marcus Estrada [divider] GaymerX was a convention born of crowdfunding. Thanks to Kickstarter, and many wonderful backers, this new gaming convention was able to take over San Francisco for a weekend in 2013. GaymerX2 also saw crowdfunding success but…
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Games these days are strictly divided into two camps. A ton of gaming, including the vast majority of the AAA lineup, focuses a great deal of their time and effort into making a game as realistic as humanly possible, while the other side of the…
Campaign Postmortem: Ashen Rift By Brad Jones [divider] For every Kickstarter project that finds its funding, there’s one that can’t quite get the support that it needs. Often, the reasons behind a failed Kickstarter campaign can be very obvious, but there are also times that…
For a while there, every single video game was about zombies, and that is in no way an exaggeration (it is). The fact of the matter is that the media became completely saturated with zombies for a long time, and it became so completely banal…
Nerd-dom celebrity Felicia Day, actress in Buffy, Supernatural, and Doctor Horrible’s Sing-Along Blog, as well as star/writer/creator of The Guild and Dragon Age: Redemption recently posted on her Facebook about the newly-released Kickstarter game Divinity: Original Sin. Day is an avid gamer who has voiced…
Insurgency Reviewed By Nathaniel Liles [divider] [dropcap]G[/dropcap]amers love to complain about “brown military shooters”, right? “They’re ruining gaming!” I hear you say, “They just make the same game over and over again and people give them all the money!!!” Well, be that as it may,…
Indiana Moe and the Raiders of the Cheap Consoles By Mitchell ‘Moe’ Long [divider] 7:30 AM, Saturday Morning [dropcap]T[/dropcap]he irony of the Roots crooning “Lazy Afternoon” fills the room as my cell phone alarm blares from a tinny speaker. I unwind from a straightjacket of…
It’s not hard to find something funny (or offensively unfunny) about Rob Ford. Give it a quick Google. Go on, now, do it. I’ll wait. Welcome back. Yeah, he totally did all that. Smoked crack on camera? Check. DUI and possession? One check each. Proposing…
Hot Tin Roof: The Cat That Wore a Fedora, the upcoming crime-solving block-fest has been struck with a tragedy and while it’s not a tragedy that will lead to a huge delay or a cancellation, it’s one that has given the game a new purpose….
I’m going to try sincerely not to come off as a jerk, so please understand where I’m coming from here. We here at Cliqist love all the developers out there chasing after their wildest dreams with an incredibly small pool of resources, and while indie…
Usually, when you think about a point and click adventure game, you think about crazy, convoluted puzzles. In fact, this very concept is what inspires some of the most intense feelings of achievement and, conversely, frustration in the entirety of video games. Suddenly realizing you…
Be an ordinary man with an extraordinary life in possibly the funniest game since the dawn of mankind. A while back we covered the Adventures of Frederik Ceppo, being one of the first non-crowdfunded games at the time we covered. Since we covered it, Hoostbank…
For the love of… *sigh* Okay. Fine. This exists. In a daring crossover of two of the most annoying things in the world, a man known only as Sage G has created a game that will change the world if it is released – and…
Creepily Cute Horror In Bulb Boy By Suzanne Verras [divider] Bulb Boy is a point-and-click adventure horror game by the Polish Bulb Boy Team. It’s a 2D adventure into the strange, scary, but also cute world of Bulb Boy, who has to save his friends…
Old School Adventuring Reborn In Quest For Infamy By David Lins [divider] [dropcap]H[/dropcap]ow many times do you read the phrase “love letter” while browsing Kickstarter? It’s gotten to the point that it actually makes me cringe a little whenever I see it, because most of…
Habitat Early Access Review – Mission Accomplished By Julie Morley [divider] [dropcap]H[/dropcap]abitat is an orbital strategy game created by 4gency, an indie studio located in Seattle, that was funded on May 2nd for over $60K. It’s scheduled to be released for PC, Mac, Linux, and XBOX…
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