Veteran crowdfunding developer, Chris Parsons has returned to Kickstarter with a follow up to his relationship-focused space game, Sol Trader. In Ealdorlight, players engage in step-based roguelike combat set against a procedural storytelling backdrop. It’s a chance for Parsons’ new studio Revelation Games, to build…
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Joanna Mueller is a lifelong gamer who used to insist on having the Super Mario Bros manual read to her as a bedtime story. Now she's reading Fortnite books to her own kiddo while finally making use of her degree to write about games as Cliqist's EIC.
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A game’s atmosphere is a big part of selling players on the story. A horror game set in a bright, beautiful location probably won’t go far. So when Developer, melessthanthree decided to set their game in a bewildering world of nightmares, standard pixel art just…
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Up until 2007, The Paizo Publishing company made a name for themselves publishing Dungeons and Dragons magazines. When Wizards of the Coast chose not to renew their contract, Paizo developed their own RPG product line under D&D’s Open Game License. Thus the Pathfinder IP was…
Joanna Mueller
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With only 15 minutes until Valve closed submissions to Steam Greenlight, Developers, Alex Nechita and Alex Nae, introduced The Underground King to the world. Within 24 hours the community had spoken. This quirky narrative-driven, strategy racing, RPG was the last game to make it on…
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Tinybuild Games CEO, Alex Nichiporchik has come forward with some damning accusations against Russian game publisher, Buka Entertainment. Accusations which he claims have lead Buka to threaten legal actions against the indie label. On June 19th, 2017, Nichiporchik published an article to tinyBuild’s website where…
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Illfonic and Gun Media have got to be both the most celebrated and most hated team in gaming right now. On the one hand, everyone and their dog was hyped about the release of Friday the 13th The Game. Finally, a Jason game made by…
Joanna Mueller
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Last Week, Io-Interactive CEO, Hakan Abrak revealed that the developer had successfully negotiated a management buyout with Square Enix. In addition to a return to its independent roots, IO also managed to retain all rights to their Hitman IP. “IOI started as an independent studio…
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It’s Summer here in the Northern Hemisphere; which means it’s time to spend some beautifully sunny days sequestered inside frigidly air conditioned gaming caves. It also means that at E3 2017 an army of publisher PR flacks unleashed a torrent of silver tongued promises. As…
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Sundered is almost ready to launch. Developer, Thunder Lotus Games decided to use their E3 presence to remind players why they’ve been looking forward to it. A new E3 teaser video gave fans their first look at the epic final boss they will face in…
Joanna Mueller
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With massive crowds attending E3, Indie Publisher, Devolver Digital wanted to increase the size of its annual off-site event. However, after renting a lot owned by the City of Los Angeles, the city refused to grant Devolver the necessary permits to utilize their additional space….
Joanna Mueller
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Focus Home Interactive kicked off this year’s E3 with a brand new trailer for Dontnod’s bloodsucking RPG, Vampyr. The trailer seemed to portray a very different game than what we’ve seen previously. Suddenly the moody, atmospheric tale of a doctor turned vampire in the midst…
Joanna Mueller
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Sometimes you just wanna be Nikola Tesla blowing through Nazi robots with a Death Ray. You may have not even realized this was something you wanted, but now that you’ve had a moment to think about it you’ve slowly begun to nod your head. A…
Joanna Mueller
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Just over thirty-three minutes into their grand E3 press conference, Microsoft proudly trotted out Bluehole’s Brendan Greene. The creative director of the battle royale game, Playerunknown’s Battleground was on-hand to show off a trailer ahead of the project’s Xbox One console exclusive launch. Despite Microsoft’s efforts…
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After 4 alpha releases and hundreds of gameplay videos, Hello Neighbor is set to launch on PC and Xbox One on August 29th. Publisher Alex Nichiporchik from tinyBuild appeared on Twitch’s E3 Stream to show off some gameplay from the new Beta build. The Beta…
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Sony’s E3 press conference was noticeably devoid of indie titles this year. This was a bit shocking as Sony had previously gone out of its way to make a big deal out of how much more indie friendly PlayStation was over Xbox. This year, with…
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Beethoven & Dinosaur’s surreal, narrative-driven action/adventure platformer, first showed up on our radars when we only covered crowdfunded games. Saddled with the ponderous title, The Artful Escape of Francis Vendetti, the game’s Kickstarter campaign failed to reach it’s AU$ 50,000 goal. Undaunted, the devs kept at…