Welcome back to Cliqist’s Kickstarter Game of the Week, a special segment where we unlock the darkest secrets of underwater basket weaving. This week’s Kickstarter Game of the Week is the impending remake of System Shock, and while reboots can take many ghastly forms, this…
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Nathaniel Liles is a freelance writer, writing major, and indie musician based in Southern Indiana. While procrastinating or avoiding real-world responsibility, Nathaniel enjoys playing rhythm games, action RPGs, and very colorful games with many bright, flashing lights. You can listen to Nathaniel sing songs or download his music for free at http://nathanielliles.bandcamp.com/.
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In Kickstarter Game of the Week, our staff samples Kickstarter’s finest avocados and brings you the freshest and ripest of the bunch. This week’s tasty morsel is an ambitious sci-fi exploration game called Transmission, and if you’ve watched our video about the game’s campaign, you…
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First-person puzzle games have always fascinated me, so it’s no surprise that Finding Gravity, a co-op first-person puzzler currently seeking funding on Kickstarter, has piqued my interest. A quick gander at the game’s campaign page gives you a clear idea of what to expect from this…
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Entirely too often, Kickstarter campaigns are funded only to have their creators vanish into thin air. While this might make some backers claim “scam”, most of the time, it’s just unprepared developers being hit with the reality of game development. Making a game is crazy…
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We’ve covered Wanderer a couple times, so I won’t waste any time retreading old ground. If you’re meeting Wanderer for the first time, I suggest you click here and here to learn a little bit about one of the most promising projects on Kickstarter. Everyone else…
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Quick, think of a video game! Now hold that in your mind while I ask you a question: was the game you thought of completely combat-centric? The vast majority of games are, and while that theme holds steady in video gaming, tabletop gaming has shown…
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Umbra‘s Kickstarter campaign jumped off with a pretty stellar gameplay preview, and soon enough, we’ll finally be able to get our hands on the Early Access release of the game. Blending hack-and-slash gameplay with a Diablo point-of-view and a Gauntlet number of enemies, Umbra stands…
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[dropcap size=big]W[/dropcap]e talk about a lot of crowdfunded games here but, in my experience at least, something that’s as high-quality as Armello is somewhat hard to come by. This is still an early access, and we all know how I feel about those, but despite…
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Hi there! Remember me? Nathaniel? No? Cool. I’ve been dead for awhile, but in the spirit of Halloween, I’ve risen from the dead to write a spoopy-scary article about a game that recently caught my eye. Oh how did it ever catch my eye. The…
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Starwhal: Just the Tip, Out of Early Access, and Still Awesome by Nathaniel Liles [divider] [dropcap]N[/dropcap]ow, it’s entirely possible that you guys read my original article about Starwhal: Just the Tip, and you may have even been around when they added an ice cream outfit, but today,…
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We’ve covered Shovel Knight here before I believe… Ah! Yep, here it is. A fine review, for all intents and purposes. Now, by the time our review of Shovel Knight hit our site’s homepage, I had long since forgotten about a review copy I’d requested many…
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Continuing our coverage of Five Nights at Freddy’s, I’ll be taking a look at all the little secrets and rumors that are hidden in the background of the game, constantly watching you, waiting for their moment to stuff a metal endoskeleton inside of you. It’s…
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I have this weird habit of describing crowdfunding to you guys, like, every other article I write. I have a reason though, for describing the process. First off, some of our readers need to be reminded that backing a game is not akin to preordering…
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Very Early Access, But Much Potential Lies Within Dex by Nathaniel Liles [divider] As you all know, most of the games we play here are unfinished, be they demos, early access, betas, tech demos, or proofs of concept. There are an alarming number of ways…
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It hasn’t been a busy news week, but that doesn’t mean that there weren’t some great happenings this week! We have release news, progress made, and best of all, Shovel Knight on Mac. So let’s dig into your weekly does of all the crowdfunding news…
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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…
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