What do indie game developers do with free time?
They develop other games for fun really they do.
Oh, and they film themselves doing it and timelapse it and put it on YouTube… just to show everyone else what we could be doing but aren’t, and also partially to show off, but I suspect mostly because they find it amusing to do so.
Operation Flashpoint: Dragon Rising
Operation Flashpoint: Dragon Rising is, to quote Tristram Shandy, my hobbie-horse. Despite the groans every time I mention it, I persist in telling as many people as possible how good it is. All the time. And it is. Good. Honestly.
You could be forgiven though, for thinking otherwise. A battery of complaints have been levelled at [...]
Left 4 Dead 2
When Valve’s new zombie extravaganza hit shelves in November 2008, many of us thought the co-op shooter genre had changed forever. Left 4 Dead created a glorious concatenation of gunplay and team survival tactics – with zombies. Despite attracting complaints over the amount of content, Left 4 Dead redefined the online co-operative experience, with Valve [...]
CLAWFEST over Dragon Age: Origins
The staff at The Claw (Stuart [FUMANSTU], Christi [BEARDYBRAVE], Dan [DRDAMN] and Ian [SPELK]) decided it was about time to sit around a virtual table (Google Wave), get our claws out and tear through a recent game title we’ve all played. Throwing in questions, and responding individually, hopefully highlighting several perspectives about the game all [...]
Paul Eres @ The Claw
The Claw has been fortunate enough to host another Google Wave based interview with the indie developer Paul Eres, designer and coder of one of the best Tower Defense games out there, Immortal Defense, and we get to chat about the future and his upcoming 2d adventure game Saturated Dreamers.
Shift Your Expectations
The Need for Speed series from EA has rarely been known for innovation. The early titles were distinctive affairs with rolling point to point countryside tracks featuring supercars and police chases. At that time they set something of a standard for others to follow, but in recent times the series has dug itself into a [...]
Brink: what do we think?
Update: 2 more vids at the bottom of the story for your pleasure. the dynamic mission generation looks stunning and the more we see the SMART system in action the more we love it. It’s going to be a hard wait.
PS3 Games – E3 2010 – Brink
Solium Infernum: Hell on Earth
The infernal turn based strategy conjured from the bowels of Hell, known as Solium Infernum has been released onto the mortals of this world. The game is a heady mixture of board game, card game, and high strategy in terms of diplomacy, hellish compromises and decisions. Dripping with the goop of Damnation itself, the game [...]
Borderlands: Four Gun as One!
I remember many years ago, I was obsessed (or in love) with an online Dreamcast game called Phantasy Star Online, so much so that I started up a gaming community around it, and the tag line for that community was “Four fight as One”. Whenever I play Borderlands now, I am always reminded of that [...]
Armada 2526: Invasion imminent!
Armada 2526 is now on the release radar, coming in as a boxed product or a digital download from Matrixgames.com
The4X space strategy game developed by Ntronium, will feature turn based strategic play on a large galactic map, along with real time space fleet battles rendered in 3d, including planetary attacks and ground support from dropship [...]